Prof. Roy Beck

Research achievements: 

Characterization of delayed and coordinated nucleation of supercooled phospholipid membranes; developing biophysical models to match the measured protein-based hydrogel mechanics and nanoscopic structures originated from the neuronal cytoskeleton; biophysical insights correlating structural phase transition in myelin sheaths as a pathological marker for multiple sclerosis; developing information-based entropy estimators for computer simulation datasets.

 

Future Research Directions:

Developing novel techniques to measure in high throughput transient and reversible interactions between intrinsically disordered proteins; design, measure and model, hybrid polypeptide-hydrocarbon dendrimer amphiphiles that self-assemble into tunable nanoscale structures.​

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Education

2002-2006 | Ph.D in Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

1998-2002 | B.Sc in Physics and Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Academic Positions

​​2025-         | Adjunct Professor, Faculty of life sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

2021-         | Full Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

2015-2021 | Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

2010-2015 | Senior Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

2006-2010 | HFSP post-doctoral fellow in Biophysics, University of California, Santa-Barbara

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Academic and professional award

2017 | Juludan Research Prize Fund

2006 | Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellowship, UCSB

2006 | Applied Material research excellence prize for graduate students

2005 | Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in exact sciences for doctoral and post-doctoral students 

2005 | Excellence in research award, Tel-Aviv University

2004 | Excellence in research award, Tel-Aviv University

2003 | Fulbright fellowship, University of Maryland

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