Rate Professor Laura Kaufman

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Laura Kaufman earned her BA from Columbia University in 1997 and her PhD from UC Berkeley in 2002.

Research Interests: Her research focuses on physical chemistry, particularly dynamics in crowded systems like biological tissues.

Appointments: Professor of Chemistry; Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University.

Awards: Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award.

Publications: Key papers on soft matter dynamics in Journal of Chemical Physics.

Additional Contributions: Runs an interdisciplinary lab for biophysics research.