Ramin Golestanian elected new Fellow of the Royal Society
The national academy of sciences of the United Kingdom annually elects outstanding researchers from various fields into their ranks in recognition of their exceptional contributions to science. This year, MPI-DS director Ramin Golestanian is one of the new Fellows of the Royal Society. “I am honoured to receive this distinction, which I undoubtedly owe to the privilege of having worked alongside so many brilliant students, postdocs, and senior colleagues over the years,” says Golestanian. Since 2010, he is Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Oxford. In 2018, he was appointed director at the MPI-DS in Göttingen.
His research includes several aspects of statistical physics outside equilibrium, soft matter and biophysics. In his department “Living Matter Physics”, Ramin Golestanian investigates how matter self-organizes and arranges into patterns that fulfil specific functions and eventually form living structures. Together with his team, he develops universal theoretical models that can be applied to multiple biological systems to better understand the underlying physical principles. These include, among others, Self-organisation due to non-reciprocal interactions, autonomous shape-shifting of self-organised structures, self-organisation of metabolic cycles at the origin of life<, and decoding the nonequilibrium dynamics of living matter using tools from statistical physics
In 2017, he was elected fellow of the American Physical society, followed by admission to the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony in 2021. Now, Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, welcomes him along with over 90 other fellows to the renowned scientific society of the UK: “Our Fellowship is strengthened not only by individual distinction, but by the diversity of perspectives and experiences its members bring. This incoming cohort highlights the truly international character of contemporary science and underscores the vital role that collaboration plays in achieving breakthroughs that benefit us all.”
About the Royal Society
The mission of the Royal Society is to recognise, promote and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity. Founded already in the 1660s, the Society elects outstanding researchers outstanding Fellows from all over the world.