JeffChuang
From The ChuangLab
About me - Jeffrey Chuang
My scientific career has been a steady progression from my long time interests in both mathematics and modeling towards studying biological systems. My first serious research projects were as a physics major at Harvard. There I worked on a variety of topics in condensed matter physics and mathematical modeling, including experiments in high and low temperature superconductivity, simulations of antimatter in an ion trap, and theory work on the quantum chaotic properties of atomic nuclear states.
Afterwards, I went to MIT to get a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, studying topics such as protein folding, DNA, and the remarkable thermodynamic properties of polymer gels with Toyoichi Tanaka, Alexander Grosberg, and Mehran Kardar. I spent one summer doing science journalism at the Dallas Morning News, where I wrote a number of newspaper articles.
From 2001-2005, I worked as a postdoc at UC San Francisco with Prof. Hao Li in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department. Since September 2005, I have been an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Boston College, where I study computational biology.
