Robijn F. Bruinsma (born May 15, 1953, Haarlem, The Netherlands) is a theoretical physicist and is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles and Chair of the Department of Theoretical Physics for the Life Sciences at Leiden University. He is a specialist in the theory of condensed matter.

He has a B.S. degree in Physics from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (1974), a M.S. in Physics from Utrecht University (1976), and a Ph.D. degree in Physics (1976) from the University of Southern California.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Honors
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

His research specialties include the numerical simulation of active proteins and of gene transcription, the self-*embly of viruses, DNA, and chromatin, the electrostatics of DNA and electrical transport along DNA, and adhesion of vesicles and cells.

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1979-1980.
• Research *ociate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1980-1982.
• Visiting Scientist, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY, 1982-1984.
• *istant Professor of Physics, University of California, 1984-1988
• *ociate Professor of Physics, University of California, 1988-1990
• Full Professor of Physics, University of California, 1990–present
• Chair, Theoretical Physics for the Life Sciences, Leiden University, 2001–present

Honors

• Pierre et Marie Curie Visiting Professorship (ESPCI) (1994)
• Rothschild Foundation Fellowship (1996)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Distinguished Lecturer, Collège de France (1999)

References

External links

• Bruinsma's webpage at the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy