Eshel Ben-Jacob

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Who is Eshel Ben-Jacob?

Eshel Ben-Jacob, is a theoretical and experimental physicist at Tel Aviv University, holder of the Maguy-Glass Chair in Physics of Complex Systems, and Fellow of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at the Rice University. During the 1980s he became an international leader in the theory of self-organization and pattern formation in open systems, and later extended this work to adaptive complex systems and biocomplexity. His specialization in self-organization of complex systems yielded the breakthrough of solving the long standing snowflake problem. In the late 1980s, he turned to study of bacterial self-organization, believing that bacteria hold the key to understanding the larger biological systems. He developed new pattern forming bacteria species, became a pioneer in the study of bacterial intelligence and social behaviors of bacteria, and has been an influential figure in establishing the now rapidly evolving Physics of Living Systems disciplines. He is an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.

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Nationality
  • Israel
Education
  • Tel Aviv University
Lived in
  • Israel

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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