Harvard Biophysics
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Varun Varanasi
A physicist thinking about brains and machines.
I am a PhD student in Biophysics at Harvard University, advised by Cengiz Pehlevan. My work falls at the intersection of statistical physics, learning theory, and neuroscience, but I am broadly interested in information processing in biological and artificial systems.
Before beginning graduate school, I worked as a quantitative trader at IMC Financial Markets. Earlier, I studied Physics and Statistics & Data Science at Yale, where I had the opportunity to work with Jun Korenaga on chemical self-organization and Chris Lynn on theoretical neuroscience. Long before that, I was fortunate to be introduced to science through my time at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and my work with Michael Dickey on liquid metal thin films at NC State. I owe much of where I am today to the mentors and communities who've supported me along the way.
If my interests or experiences resonate with you, please reach out to varunvaranasi@g.harvard.edu. I'm always happy to chat.
News
Our paper, Emergence of autocatalysis in prebiotic reaction networks, was published in Physical Review E and featured by Yale News.
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