About Us

Dr. Evelyn Tang is an Assistant Professor in the physics department and the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University in Houston. She received her Ph.D. in physics from MIT. After that, she was an Africk Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently a Group Leader  at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. She also holds an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge (where she was a Gates scholar) and a B.S. from Yale University.

Her research has spanned the different fields of quantum electrons, computational neuroscience and now active and biochemical networks. Prior awards include the IUPAP Interdisciplinary Early Career Scientist Prize, Scialog award, and the Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship. She enjoys using geometric and topological tools to understand how robust function emerges in complex biochemical and stochastic systems.