Ramin Golestanian () is a professor at the

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and the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at

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. He is a fellow of

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and is affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Soft and Biological Matter. In 2014 he was awarded the

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for his "pioneering contributions to the field of active soft matter, particularly microscopic swimmers and active colloids". In 2017 he was awarded the

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991. Education and early life He was born in Paris, France, and was home-schooled to the age of 12. By the age of ...

Lecture Prize. Ramin Golestanian is now director at the

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in Göttingen, Germany, heading th
department of Living Matter Physics
He was born on 26 February 1971 in Paris, France. He grew up in Tehran and graduated from

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in 1989. In the same year, he won a bronze medal at the 20th International Physics Olympiad (

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) in Poland. This was the first time Iran took part in this international competition. He obtained his B.Sc. from

Sharif University of Technology Sharif University of Technology (SUT); (, romanized : Dāneshgāh-e sana'ti-e sharif) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered to be the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology ...

(1993), and his M.Sc. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences ( IASBS). He has been a visiting scholar at

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, Postdoctoral Fellow at the

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, Joliot Chair and

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visiting professor at

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, and visiting professor at

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. Before joining Oxford, he held academic positions at IASBS and the

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