Nathalie Q. Balaban

Nathalie Q. Balaban is an Israeli biophysicist and systems biologist. She is a full professor at the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] and a member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM), the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Education and career

Balaban completed her PhD degree in Condensed Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute. She first became interested in biophysics and studied mechanical forces in cells with Benny Geiger in 2000. She then joined Stanislas Leibler’s lab in Princeton University as a postdoctoral researcher, where she was a Robert H. Dicke Fellow. Since 2003, she has been a faculty member in the Physics Department of the Hebrew University. Her research today is considered groundbreaking in the biophysical description of the responses of bacteria under antibiotic treatments,[2] and their implications for understanding treatment failure[3] and evolution of resistance[4]

Recognition
  • The Klachky Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science in 2016.[6]

Dissemination

Balaban initiated and established, together with Professor Eran Sharon  the "Scholar-Teacher"  which creates academic research positions at the Hebrew University that include also part-time science teaching in high schools for the advancement of science teaching.

Selected publications


References
  1. Prof. Nathalie Balaban, The Racah Institute of Physics, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  2. "Systems biologist finds novel solutions to fundamental biological problems". Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  3. "Effect of tolerance on the evolution of antibiotic resistance under drug combinations, Science 2020". Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  4. "Antibiotic tolerance facilitates the evolution of resistance, Science 2020". Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  5. "Nathalie Q. Balaban, Krill Prize Laureate 2009".
  6. "Nathalie Balaban, AcademiaNet".
  7. "EAM - members".
  8. "Nathalie Balaban, EMBO website".
  9. "Excelling researcher 2022".
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