Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld is a Swanlund Chair, Professor of Physics Department in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology, and the leader of the Biocomplexity group at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. Goldenfeld is a co-founder of Numerix and the author of the textbook "Phase Transitions and Renormalization Group," a widely used graduate textbook in statistical physics.
