Ken Dill

Ken Dill is a Professor of Physics and Chemistry at Stony Brook University, and Director of the Laufer Center for Physical Biology. He helped to solve the `protein folding problem’ and is interested in the principles of proteins, cell evolution and the early molecular origins of life. He has written two textbooks on the physical principles of molecules in chemistry and biology.

Dill was an undergraduate at MIT, received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, did postdoctoral work at Stanford, and then was on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco for many years before moving to Stony Brook a decade ago. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been the President of the US Biophysical Society.