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Deem elected to APS
 Michael Deem, the John W. Cox Professor in Biochemical and Genetic Engineering and professor of physics and astronomy, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
The honor is among the most prestigious in physics, as no more than one-half of one percent of APS members can be elected to fellowship. The APS cited Deem's “elegant and pioneering work on the connection between spin glass physics and complex phenomena in biology ranging from the immune system response to the dynamics of evolution.”
Deem has earned attention in recent years for his groundbreaking research in the areas of immune system response and vaccines. His specialty is statistical mechanics, specifically the computer simulation of complex molecular systems.
Deem focuses on four principle areas of research: bioinformatics, immune system response, protein structure and drug discovery, and zeolite structure and nucleation. His group uses both simulation and analytical statistical mechanics to address these problems.
Among Deem’s previous honors are the NSF CAREER Award, 1997-2001; Northrop Grumman Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award in 1997; a Top 100 Young Innovator in MIT’s Technology Review, November 1999; an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2000; and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 2002.
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