Aleksandra Walczak

Aleksandra Walczak
Alma mater	University of California, San Diego
Scientific career
Fields	Biophysics
Institutions	Ecole Normale Supérieure
Website	www.phys.ens.fr/~awalczak/

Aleksandra M. Walczak is a theoretical biophysicist. She works on stochastic gene expression at Ecole Normale Supérieure where she is a research director.

Education

Walczak completed her masters degree at Warsaw University, Poland in 2002, her PhD at University of California, San Diego in 2007, and was a post-doc until 2010 at Princeton University.

Honours

• 2014 - Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand de l’Académie des sciences (Jacques Herbrand Prize)
• 2016 - CNRS Bronze medal
• 2021 - Fellow of the American Physical Society for "insightful theoretical work on the physics of genetic networks, collective animal behavior, and especially the origins and functionality of antibody diversity, thus setting an agenda for a generation."
• 2021 - Prix Jean Ricard awarded by the Société française de physique

Selected publications

• Lässig, Michael; Mustonen, Ville; Walczak, Aleksandra M. (March 2017). "Predicting evolution". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1 (3): 0077. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0077.
• Mora, Thierry; Walczak, Aleksandra M.; Bialek, William; Callan, Curtis G. (23 March 2010). "Maximum entropy models for antibody diversity". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (12): 5405–5410. doi:10.1073/pnas.1001705107.
• Hornos, J. E. M.; Schultz, D.; Innocentini, G. C. P.; Wang, J.; Walczak, A. M.; Onuchic, J. N.; Wolynes, P. G. (4 November 2005). "Self-regulating gene: An exact solution". Physical Review E. 72 (5): 051907. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.72.051907.
• Murugan, Anand; Mora, Thierry; Walczak, Aleksandra M.; Callan, Curtis G. (2 October 2012). "Statistical inference of the generation probability of T-cell receptors from sequence repertoires". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (40): 16161–16166. doi:10.1073/pnas.1212755109.

External links

• Aleksandra Walczak publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Homepage
• Aleksandra Walczak: Predictability of viral-host co-evolution
• QBio Profile