David A. Weitz PhD

David A. Weitz is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, where he has appointments in both the Physics Department and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard and then worked at Exxon Research and Engineering for nearly 18 years. He then was a professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania before joining Harvard, where he leads the experimental soft condensed matter physics research group. His research efforts include soft matter physics, biophysics, and biotechnology. He is Director of Harvard’s NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and co-Director of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative. He is a member of the National Academies of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Science.