The GrandPre group focuses on non-equilibrium statistical physics and soft condensed matter physics, with an emphasis on criticality in biology.
Some current research areas in the group include:
- Regulating non-equilibrium biomolecular condensates (cellular compartments of proteins and other macromolecules that condense via phase separation)
- Gene regulation and homeostasis (e.g., the role of transcriptional condensates in cell-cycle control)
- Phase transitions in adaptive immune systems (e.g., co-evolution of bacteria and phages, as well as T and B cells with pathogens)
- Physics-informed machine learning of biophysical systems (e.g., developing optimal coarse-grained models of proteins within condensates)
Trevor GrandPre is an alumnus of DePaul University and the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in physics in 2014 and his Ph.D. in 2021. From 2021-2025, he was an independent postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Physics of Biological Function (CPBF) and the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (PCTS), as well as a Schmidt Science Fellow, at Princeton University.
