Aleksandra Walczak

Aleksandra M. Walczak is a theoretical biophysicist. She works on stochastic gene expression, immunology, evolution and collective motion at Ecole Normale Supérieure where she is a research director.

Education Walczak completed her master's degree at the University of Warsaw, Poland in 2002, her PhD at University of California, San Diego in 2007, and was a post-doc until 2010 at Princeton University.

Honours 2014 - Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand de l'Académie des sciences (Jacques Herbrand Prize) 2016 - CNRS Bronze medal 2021 - Fellow of the American Physical Society for "insightful theoretical work on the physics of genetic networks, collective animal behavior, and especially the origins and functionality of antibody diversity, thus setting an agenda for a generation." 2021 - Prix Jean Ricard awarded by the Société française de physique 2024 - CNRS Silver medal 2025 - International member of National Academy of Sciences

Selected publications