Tsvi Tlusty

I study how matter becomes machinery, how water participates in function, and how information becomes physical.

Distinguished Professor
Department of Physics
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

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Research

Protein mechanics; interfacial water; molecular recognition; evolutionary coding; multiscale living matter; quantum structures in classical systems.

Appointments and education

• 2015–Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, UNIST
• 2015–2025Principal Investigator, Living Matter Theory Group, Center for Soft and Living Matter, Institute for Basic Science
• 2011–2015Long-term Member, Simons Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• 2005–2013Senior Researcher, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science
• 2000–2004Fellow, Center for Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University
• 1995–2000Ph.D. in Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science; supervisor: Samuel A. Safran
• 1991–1995M.Sc. in Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
• 1988–1990B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Visiting affiliations

Universal Biology Institute, University of Tokyo
Simons Centre, National Centre for Biological Sciences