Former St Cross Fellow Professor Ramin Golestanian elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Professor Golestanian is Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Oxford and is based at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics. He is also a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, where he leads research into the physics of living matter.
His work explores how living systems organise, move, communicate, and function across scales, using the tools of theoretical physics to understand complex biological processes. His research spans non-equilibrium statistical physics, soft and living matter, and theoretical biophysics, with particular interests including active matter, microscopic swimmers, active colloids, enzymes, membranes, nanopores, chemical signalling, chemotaxis, cilia, and information flow in active systems.
The Royal Society Fellowship is one of the most prestigious honours in science, recognising eminent scientists, engineers, and technologists from the UK, the Commonwealth, and beyond. Fellows are elected for their substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science.
Professor Golestanian has received numerous honours during his career, including election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics, the Holweck Medal, the EPJE Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize, and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
His election recognises the international significance of his contributions to theoretical physics and the physics of living matter. The College extends its warmest congratulations to Professor Golestanian on this distinguished honour.
