Prof Benjamin Simons

Biography

Benjamin Simons is a theoretician with research interests both in the physics of interacting quantum systems, and in the application of statistical approaches to biologically-inspired problems in stem cell and developmental biology. He has held a faculty position at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge since 1995, and currently holds the Herchel Smith Chair in Physics. He is also an associate of the Wellcome Trust-CRUK Gurdon Institute.

Research

• Biophysics of stem and developmental cell biology
• Quantum mesosocpic compounds: from weak localisation to quantum chaos
• Bose-Einstein condensation and non-equilibrium phenomena in ultracold atomic gases