Aleksandra Walczak Explained

Aleksandra Walczak
Fields:	Biophysics
Workplaces:	Ecole Normale Supérieure
Alma Mater:	University of California, San Diego
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Aleksandra M. Walczak is a theoretical biophysicist. She works on stochastic gene expression, immunology, evolution and collective motion at Ecole Normale Supérieure where she is a research director.^[1]

Education

Walczak completed her master's 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.^[2]

2014 - Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand de l’Académie des sciences (Jacques Herbrand Prize)^[3]
2016 - CNRS Bronze medal^[4]
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."^[5] ^[6]
2021 - Prix Jean Ricard awarded by the Société française de physique^[7]
2024 - CNRS Silver medal^[8]

Lässig . Michael . Mustonen . Ville . Walczak . Aleksandra M. . Predicting evolution . Nature Ecology & Evolution . March 2017 . 1 . 3 . 0077 . 10.1038/s41559-017-0077. 2017NatEE...1...77L . 2978836 .
Mora . Thierry . Walczak . Aleksandra M. . Bialek . William . Callan . Curtis G. . Maximum entropy models for antibody diversity . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 23 March 2010 . 107 . 12 . 5405–5410 . 10.1073/pnas.1001705107. free . 20212159 . 2851784 . 0912.5175 . 2010PNAS..107.5405M .
Hornos . J. E. M. . Schultz . D. . Innocentini . G. C. P. . Wang . J. . Walczak . A. M. . Onuchic . J. N. . Wolynes . P. G. . Self-regulating gene: An exact solution . Physical Review E . 4 November 2005 . 72 . 5 . 051907 . 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.051907. 16383645 . 2005PhRvE..72e1907H .
Murugan . Anand . Mora . Thierry . Walczak . Aleksandra M. . Callan . Curtis G. . Statistical inference of the generation probability of T-cell receptors from sequence repertoires . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 2 October 2012 . 109 . 40 . 16161–16166 . 10.1073/pnas.1212755109. free . 22988065 . 3479580 . 1208.3925 . 2012PNAS..10916161M .