Omar A. Saleh

Department Chair
Professor, Materials and Physics
Biomolecular Science & Engineering Program

Contact

(805) 893-8814
3006 Bioengineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050

Affiliations: 

Materials Research Areas: 

Honors: 

Fellow of the American Physical Society
Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Society
NSF CAREER Award
French Ministry of Research Post-doctoral Fellowship
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship

Research Description: 

The Saleh lab studies the molecular physics underlying biological systems, with particular experience in nucleic acids, protein/DNA interactions, biomolecular elasticity, and self-assembled biomolecular systems.

Education: 

Ph.D. in Physics, Princeton University
B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology