About Us
We are based in the Physics Department and Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University.
Dr. Evelyn Tang is an assistant professor in the physics department and the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
She did her PhD on quantum systems and topological phases at MIT with Xiao-Gang Wen. Thereafter, she switched into computational neuroscience as an Africk Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on cognition and brain networks. As a group leader subsequently at the Max Planck Institute of Dynamics and Self-Organization, her research has broadened to other questions in theoretical biological physics. Evelyn holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BS from Yale University. Prior awards include the IUPAP Interdisciplinary Early Career Scientist Prize, Scialog award, Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship, and Gates Cambridge scholarship.
Teaching
PHYS 100: Physics of Dance and Movement
PHYS 355: Introduction to Biological Physics
PHYS 600: Active and non-equilibrium systems
Our Team
Chongbin Zheng
Graduate student
B.S. in Physics, Duke University
Dexin Li
Postdoc
Ph.D. in Physics, Peking University
Xintong Zhang
Postdoc
Ph.D. in Optical Engineering,
Fudan University
Alumni
Aleksandra Nelson, Postdoc → Industry, Switzerland
Jasmine Xiong, Rice undergrad → Graduate student at MIT Physics
Cameron Gibson, research assistant → Graduate student at Texas A&M Physics
Media
Funding
National Science Foundation
Kavli Foundation
