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Department Chair
Professor, Materials and Physics
Biomolecular Science & Engineering Program
Contact
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050
Affiliations:
Materials Research Areas:
Honors:
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Society
NSF CAREER Award
French Ministry of Research Post-doctoral Fellowship
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Research Description:
The Saleh lab studies the molecular physics underlying biological systems, with particular experience in nucleic acids, protein/DNA interactions, biomolecular elasticity, and self-assembled biomolecular systems.
Education:
Ph.D. in Physics, Princeton University
B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology