Physics for the Life Sciences, 3rd Edition

Martin Zinke-Allmang

Martin Zinke–Allmang studied Physics and Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After completing his Ph.D. thesis at the Max–Planck–Institute for Nuclear Physics, he moved to New Jersey for a Post–doctoral fellowship at AT&T Bell Laboratories and later settled at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, where he currently teaches first year Physics. He has published more than 80 scientific articles, including two major review articles in Surface Science Reports and Thin Solid Films. He has supervised more than 25 M.Sc., Ph.D. students and post–doctoral fellows, most recently in the Graduate program in Medical Biophysics.

Reza Nejat

Reza Nejat was born in Iran, studied Physics at Tehran University (B.Sc., 1974). He then moved to the U.S to pursue graduate studies in the field of nuclear engineering, where he received his M.Sc. (1976) and his PhD (1980) from the University of Missouri-Rolla. Upon returning to Iran, he joined the department of Physics at Guilan University where he was a tenured faculty for 15 years. In 1996, he moved to Canada and continued his teaching career in the department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University in Ontario, where he has been teaching first year-Physics, Introduction to Modern physics, classical mechanics and nuclear physics. His current research interest is in developing the interactive method of learning and teaching Physics (algebra-based) to life sciences students.

Eduardo Galiano-Riveros

Eduardo Galiano-Riveros Born and raised in Asuncion, Paraguay, South America, where he attended elementary, middle, and high school. He went on to pursue university studies in the U.S., where he obtained a B.S. (1983) and M.S. (1985) degrees in physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. At around that time, he decided to pursue a career in medical physics and obtained an M.S. degree (1987) in medical physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the supervison of the late Prof. Herbert Attix. He returned to Paraguay where he worked as a clinical medical physicist at the National Cancer Hospital (1988 - 1992), when he accepted a fellowship at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX to pursue Ph.D. studies, which he completed in 1995. He returned to Paraguay to resume his clincal career at the National Cancer Hospital, and with a group of radiation oncologists set up a private radiotherapy clinic in Asuncion. He spent an academic year (1998 - 1999) at the University of Osaka, Japan, as a visiting scientist. In 2003, he accepted an offer to join the faculty at the Physics Department at Laurentian University, in Sudbury, Ontario, where he is presently a tenured professor. While at Laurentian University, he has publsihed some 25 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and has supervised the M.Sc. theses of five students. His present research interests focus on nuclear imaging, as well as radiotherapy physics. Outside of work, he enjoys flying both real and model airplanes, as well as mitigating the effects of aging by lifting weights and running.

Johann Bayer

Johann Bayer was born in Bogotá, Colombia, where he completed undergraduate studies in mathematics (1996) and physics (1998) before moving to Toronto, Canada, where he went on to pursue graduate studies. He worked with professor Lev Kofman from the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) at the University of Toronto and obtained his M.Sc. in the field of theoretical cosmology. Subsequently, and still at the University of Toronto, he continued graduate studies with Prof. Charles Dyer, obtaining his Ph.D. in 2008 for work on one of the most interesting astrophysical predictions of the theory of general relativity: gravitational lensing. Throughout his studies, and as early as his senior undergraduate year, Dr. Bayer had the opportunity to teach and assist in teaching courses in Mathematics, Physics, and Astrophysics, thus sparking and developing his interest in the theory and application of evidence-based pedagogical principles to university courses in general and the physics classroom in particular. He joined the University of Toronto Scarborough as a permanent faculty member in 2009, where he currently teaches courses in Physics and Astrophysics in his role as Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences.

Michael Xiaoke Chen

Michael Xiaoke Chen was born and grew up in China. He received his B.Sc. in Physics at Sun Yat-sen University (also known as Zhongshan University) in Guangzhou in 1982. He then worked as a physics instructor and undergraduate advisor at Sun Yat-sen University for four years before pursuing his graduate studies at the City University of New York. After completing his Ph.D. in experimental solid state physics in 1991, he moved to Vancouver, Canada. Since then, he has taught a variety of courses in physics and mathematics. He has also done research work in solid state physics, Raman spectroscopy, medical imaging, and physics education. He has published more than 40 scientific papers. Currently, he is a senior lecturer in the Physics Department at Simon Fraser University.