Nigel Goldenfeld

Nigel David Goldenfeld (born May 1, 1957) is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. Preivously he worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology, and the leader of the Biocomplexity group at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

Education
Goldenfeld was educated at the University of Cambridge.

Career and research
Goldenfeld is a co-founder of Numerix and the author of the 1993 textbook "Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group," a widely used graduate textbook in statistical physics.

He is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of American Physical Society since 1995 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) since 2024.