Omar A. Saleh
Professor
Materials
Director, Biomolecular Science & Engineering Program
Contact
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Fellow of:
American Physical Society
Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation; UC Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship; Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; W.M.Keck Foundation Award, W.M.Keck Foundation
Research
The Saleh lab studies the physics of soft matter systems, with a focus on the active and passive micro-mechanics of biomolecules, polymers, and soft materials. We pursue these studies primarily using custom-built high-resolution instrumentation capable of resolving the picoNewton-scale forces, and nanometer-scale elastic responses, intrinsic to such systems.
Director, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program
PhD Physics, Princeton University
BS Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology