Atul N. Parikh 2014 International Biophysics Congress

Atul N. Parikh

Atul N. Parikh is professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and of Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science at the University of California, Davis. Since 2012, he is also serving as Visiting Professor in the school of Materials Science & Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He received his B.Chem. Eng. degree from the University of Bombay (1987) and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University (1993). Between 1996 and 2001, he served as postdoctoral scholar and then technical staff member in the Chemical Science and Bioscience divisions at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). His present research interests include biomolecular materials, molecular self-organization, membrane biophysics, and aspects of synthetic chemical biology and origins of life.