Tzer Han Tan

Tzer Han Tan is an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, and was previously an ELBE postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden in Germany. He completed his PhD in physics at MIT in 2020. With a research focus in active matter, Tan seeks to understand how nonequilibrium forces drive spatiotemporal organization in living and robotic matter and, in turn, how information processing harnesses this self-organizing capacity to make functional forms.