Who is David A. Weitz
David A. Weitz (b.
October 3, 1951, Ottawa, Canada) is a Canadian/American physicist and
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics & Applied Physics and professor of
Systems Biology at Harvard University. He is the co-director of the BASF
Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard, co-director of the Harvard Kavli
Institute for Bionano Science & Technology, and director of the Harvard
Materials Research Science & Engineering Center. He is best known for his work
in the areas of diffusing-wave spectroscopy, microrheology, microfluidics, rheology,
fluid mechanics, interface and colloid science, colloid chemistry, biophysics, complex
fluids, soft condensed matter physics, phase transitions, the study of glass and
amorphous solids, liquid crystals, self-assembly, surface-enhanced light
scattering, and diffusion-limited aggregation. As of December 2008, he has a Hirsch
index of 64.
Weitz received his PhD in superconductivity
from Harvard. He then worked as a research physicist at Exxon Research and
Engineering for nearly 18 years, leading the Interfaces and Inhomogeneous
Materials Group and Complex Fluids Area. He then became a Professor of Physics
at the University of Pennsylvania, before moving to Harvard in 1999.
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