Nikta Fakhri
Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Nikta
Nikta Fakhri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at MIT and Physics of Living Systems Group. She completed her undergraduate degree at Sharif University of Technology and her PhD at Rice University. She was a Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellow at Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany before joining MIT.
Her group focuses on discovering underlying principles of collective dynamics and complex spatiotemporal patterns in far from equilibrium living systems. They develop experimental tools and conceptual frameworks to uncover laws governing order, phase transitions and fluctuations in systems in which individual components break time reversal symmetry.
Honors
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics
IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics
NSF CAREER Award
Education
Postdoc
Georg August University of Göttingen, 09/2010 - 12/2014
Ph.D.
Chemical Engineering, Rice University, 01/2011
Bachelor's
Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 07/2002
