Terry Hwa
Terence "Terry" Hwa (* around 1964 in China) is an American physicist who specializes in molecular biophysics and genomics .
Education and professional career
Hwa came to the USA from China in 1979 at the age of 15. He studied physics, biology and electrical engineering at Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1986 (initially dealing with elementary particle physics) and received his doctorate in 1990 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( Statistical mechanics and dynamics of surfaces and membranes ). As a post-doctoral student he was at Harvard University until 1993 and at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1993/94 . In 1994 he became Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and in 1995 Associate Professor and in 1999 Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
In 1999 he was visiting professor at Rockefeller University . Since 2002 he has also been visiting professor at Tsinghua University (Center for Advanced Study). In 2015 he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Studies at ETH Zurich .
He has been the editor of Physical Biology since 2004 .
Research areas
Hwa began with publications in statistical physics (theory of critical phenomena in non-equilibrium, phase transitions in disordered systems, eddies in high-temperature superconductors). In the 2000s he turned to biophysics.
He deals with questions of systems biology at the molecular biological level with E. coli as a model system, as most is known about it. The aim is the quantitative understanding of the physiological response of the organism to various environmental conditions on a molecular basis, whereby, due to the complexity and lack of knowledge of all molecular mechanisms, subsystems are initially considered (such as those of gene regulation). Experimental and theoretical investigations go hand in hand in his laboratory.
Scholarships and Awards
1999–2000 he was a Guggenheim Fellow (and with this scholarship a guest at Rockefeller University) and 1994–1999 Sloan Research Fellow . In 1986 he received the LeRoy Apker Award from the American Physical Society . In 2000 he received the Burroughs-Wellcome Innovation Award in Functional Genomics . In 2008 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and in 2020 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hwa, Terry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hwa, Terence |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1964 |