About Prof. Weitz

Joshua S. Weitz is a Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland where he holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics. Previously, he held the Tom and Marie Patton Chair at Georgia Tech where he founded the Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences. Weitz received his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 2003 and did postdoctoral training in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton from 2003-2006. He directs an interdisciplinary group focusing on understanding how viruses transform the fate of cells, populations, and ecosystems and is the author of the forthcoming textbook “Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics across Cells, Organisms, and Populations” (Princeton University Press). Weitz is a Fellow of the AAAS & the American Academy of Microbiology and is a Simons Foundation Investigator in Theoretical Physics of Living Systems. At the University of Maryland, Prof. Weitz holds affiliate appointments in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Advanced Computing.