Joshua Weitz, PhD
Professor, Tom and Marie Patton Chair
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Biological Sciences
School of Physics
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Founder, Quantitative Biosciences Graduate Program
jsweitz @ gatech DOT edu
About Prof. Weitz
Prof. Joshua S. Weitz a professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair of Biological Sciences and the Founding Director of the Quantitative Biosciences Graduate Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 2003, was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University from 2003-6, and started his faculty position in Biology at Georgia Tech in 2007. Weitz is a Simons Foundation Investigator in Ocean Processes and Ecology, a Simons Foundation Investigator of Theoretical Physics in Life Sciences, the Blaise Pascal Chair at the Institut d’Biologie of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Weitz leads a multidisciplinary research team whose central goal is to understand how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.
