About me

Hi! I am Qiwei Yu (俞启威, pronounced as Chee-way Yoo). I am a Ph.D. candidate in Biophysics and a Harold W. Dodds Fellow at Princeton University, co-advised by Andrej Košmrlj and Ned Wingreen. My research interests span biophysics and statistical physics. Coming from a theoretical physics background, I enjoy using theories of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics to understand crucial biological processes and functions, for example, in intracellular phase separation (bioRxiv 2024, bioRxiv 2024), chemotaxis signaling (PNAS 2023, Nat. Commun. 2024), flocking (PRL 2022), and kinetic proofreading (J. R. Soc. Interface 2022).

Before coming to Princeton, I did undergraduate research at the Center for Quantitative Biology at Peking University and the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University, with Oleg Igoshin and Anatoly Kolomeisky. I also worked as a senior research scientist intern at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, with Yuhai Tu.

I am passionate about communicating science to a broad audience through popular journals, such as Princeton Insights.

Please feel free to send me an email if you are interested in collaborating or simply having a chat about science!