Roya Zandi
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Roya Zandi is an American physicist whose research involves the self-assembly of the viruses and fluctuation-induced or Casimir forces.[1][2] She is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, and the director of the university's biophysics graduate program.[3]
Zandi studied physics at California State University, Northridge, graduating summa cum laude in 1992 and continuing for a master's degree in 1994.[4]. She went to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for doctoral study in physics, completing her Ph.D. in 2001.[5] Her dissertation, Nucleosomes and Polyelectrolytes, was supervised by Joseph Rudnick.[6]
After postdoctoral research at UCLA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Zandi became a faculty member at UC Riverside in 2005.[5]
