Raymond Ethan Goldstein Federal Reserve System Fellow of the Institute of Physics is Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
Education
Goldstein was educated at the Public Schools of West Orange and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) where he graduated phi beta kappa with double major Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Chemistry in 1983. He continued his education at Cornell University where he was awarded a Master of Science degree in Physics in 1986, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1988 for research on phase transitions and critical phenomena supervised by Neil Ashcroft.
Career
Goldstein"s research focuses on understanding nonequilibrium phenomena in the natural world, with particular emphasis on biophysics and has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Council (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) and the European Union 7th Framework Programme on & Innovation (FP7). His research has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Physical Review Letters, and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Goldstein has held academic appointments at the University of Chicago, Princeton University and the University of Arizona.
He was appointed Schlumberger Professor at the University of Cambridge in 2006.