Daniel Beller

Daniel Beller a theoretical and computational physicist with research interests in soft matter and biological/biomaterial physics. The interplay of topological defects, active matter flows, nontrivial boundary geometries, and novel bulk material configurations are recurring themes in much of my group’s work. They also study biological population genetics in connection with problems in statistical physics. He joined the Physics faculty at the University of California, Merced, as an assistant professor in July 2018. He obtained a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Mathematics at Brandeis University. His doctoral studies in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania focused on defects in liquid crystals. Before joining UC Merced, He was a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University and at Harvard University, where from 2014 to 2016 he was the George F. Carrier Fellow in Applied Mathematics.