Rob B. Phillips

Rob Brooks Phillips (born 1960) is an American biophysicist. He is currently Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics, Biology, and Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

Biography
Phillips originally did not intend to go to college and took an unconventional educational path, earning a bachelor's degree by independent study at the University of Minnesota in 1986. He then received his doctorate in physics at Washington University in St. Louis in 1989. He was a professor at Brown University and has been a professor at Caltech since 2000. He enjoys surfing.

Awards

 * Fellow, American Physical Society (2009)
 * Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 * National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award (2004)
 * National Science Foundation CAREER Award
 * Caltech ASCIT teaching award (2017)
 * 2020–21 Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Caltech's highest teaching prize

Works

 * Physical Biology of the Cell (textbook)