Raghuveer Parthasarathy (born 1976) is an American

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, and an Alec and Kay Keith Professor of Physics on the faculty of the

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Early life and education

Born in 1976 in

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, Parthasarathy is the son of Sampath and Kalyani (née Rangaswamy) Parthasarathy. He became a U.S.citizen at age twelve in 1988 in San Diego, California. Parthasarathy earned an A.B. in physics in 1997 from the

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, and a Ph.D. physics in 2002 from the

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, with the dissertation, ''Electronic transport in arrays of gold nanocrystals'', advised by

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Career

Following a four year post-doc as a

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at Berkeley, Parthasarathy joined the physic faculty at the University of Oregon in 2006. As a member of both the Institute of Molecular Biology and the Materials Science Institute, he researches topics of "

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, host-microbe interactions, and advanced microscopy techniques". Since 2016, Parthasarathy has served as co-director of the University of Oregon Science Literacy Program. Parthasarathy was named Alec and Kay Keith Professor in 2016, and promoted to full professor in 2017.

Selected publications

Books

Articles

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Awards, honors

* In 2020, Parthasarathy was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, cited ''For creative and innovative contributions to biological physics especially to our understanding of the gut microbiome and lipid bilayers.'' * 2020 Williams Fellow * 2008

National Science Foundation CAREER Award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

, NSF's Biomaterials Program, providing $475,000 over the five years. * 2007

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

References

External links

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