Eshel Faraggi PhD

Eshel Faraggi, a physicist, was born in Beer-Sheva, Israel. The son of a chemist and a history teacher he was absorbed in critical thought from a young age. At the age of 21, he entered the joint math and physics program at the Hebrew University completing his studies with accolades and salutations. Upon graduation, he started a physics doctorate degree with the University of Texas at Austin and wrote a marvelous dissertation on various questions associated with two-dimensional ferromagnetism under the supervision of Linda Reichl. He has worked on a multitude of scientific areas including discrete time, cell division, and laser-flesh interactions. Over the last five years, he has also been working on proteins and is responsible for several successful predictors of protein structure.