Paul Selvin

Paul Selvin

Professor, Physics

Areas of Research

Cancer Imaging

Research

Paul Selvin has spent his career developing high-resolution fluorescent techniques to study biological molecules as a biophysicist. Selvin’s recent work has turned to molecular motors—proteins whose job is moving cargoes around the cell. Selvin’s lab is now visualizing single transcription factors going from the cytoplasm to the nucleus, and has looked at the Estrogen Receptor and NF-kB, two important cancer-related proteins.

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1990

Campus Affiliations

Select Honors and Recognitions

  • APS Fellow, 2004
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2000
  • Cottrell Scholar Award, 2000
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member, 2024