Dr Kevin Chalut

Biography

Kevin Chalut is a biophysicist with a PhD in Physics from Duke University. Since 2011 he has been a Royal Society University Research Fellow. Kevin’s post-graduate background is in biotechnology and imaging, particularly with regards to detecting cancer and characterising stem cells. He is currently a group leader at both the Cavendish Laboratory and the Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute.　

His work focuses on developing novel biotechnology to investigate physical states of cells such as mechanics and subcellular structure; in the last few years he has focused almost exclusively on the biophysics of embryos and embryonic stem cells. The ultimate goal of his laboratory is to discover physical mechanisms and their importance to pluripotency, differentiation and reprogramming.　

Research

Creating biotechnology to probe the physical properties of biological systems. In particular, we quantitatively asses physical characteristics of embryonic stem cells to better understand how they make their fate decisions.