Roya Zandi is an American physicist whose research involves the
self-assembly of the viruses and fluctuation-induced or Casimir forces. She is a professor of physics and astronomy at the
University of California, Riverside, and the director of the university's biophysics graduate program.
Education and career
Zandi studied physics at
California State University, Northridge, graduating
summa cum laude in 1992 and continuing for a master's degree in 1994.. She went to the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...
(UCLA) for doctoral study in physics, completing her Ph.D. in 2001. Her dissertation, ''Nucleosomes and Polyelectrolytes'', was supervised by
Joseph Rudnick.
After postdoctoral research at UCLA and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...
, Zandi became a faculty member at UC Riverside in 2005.
Recognition
UC Riverside gave Zandi their Commitment to Graduate Diversity Award in 2019, and named her as Endowed Term Chair for Inclusive Excellence in 2021, for her efforts in encouraging and training a diverse group of students.
She was named a
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2022, after a nomination from the APS Division of Biological Physics, "for the application of fundamental theories of elasticity, electrostatics, and phase transitions to elucidate unique physical phenomena arising in viral capsid formation, notably the origin of icosahedral symmetry, the role of disclinations, and the branched topology of RNA genomes".
References
External links
Zandi Lab*
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American physicists
American women physicists
Biophysicists
California State University, Northridge alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of California, Riverside faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society