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Dr. Samantha Lish
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- Woodmere,
- New York
- United States
- At the core of my work—both scientific and artistic—is a central theme: the emergence of ordered patterns from seeming chaos. As a theoretical biophysicist, my research focuses on collective behavior in non-equilibrium systems, using computational models to understand how structure arises from abstract rules and physical constraints. My doctoral work examined multicellular life organizing from interacting populations, reframing the embryo as an active matter system and applying tools from statistical physics to embryology. My Postdoctoral examines what happens when the same organizing logic breaks down, extending this framework to probe the intersection of embryogenesis and cancer metastasis – when division goes wrong. This kind of interdisciplinary research requiring coordination across scientific fields to generate insights that neither discipline could achieve independently. As a visual artist, I explore analogous questions through material, form, and image, working in collage and assemblage, piecing together fragments of a whole: internal gears, textual excerpts, or symbolic geometries that gesture toward larger systems. Art and science, share a commitment to questioning assumptions, refining approximations, and embracing uncertainty. In both domains, discovery is iterative: systems are broken apart, examined, and recombined to reveal hidden patterns. Across all my work, whether modeling organoid self-organization, coding interactive simulations, or creating artwork, I am guided by the principle that problem-solving through multiple modalities can advance society. This perspective developed from a longstanding curiosity about integrating visual and conceptual thinking. As an undergraduate at the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY Hunter, I studied studio art alongside physics and mathematics; as a D.Phil. student in the NIH–Oxford–Cambridge Scholars Program, I spearheaded a collaboration between my mentors in theoretical physics and biomedical optics; and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technion – Institute of Technology, I was recruited to work on a project spanning the departments of physics and medicine. Over time, I came to see interdisciplinarity not as a stylistic choice but as a methodological imperative: meaningful innovation often arises at the intersections of frameworks. Whether in the laboratory, the studio, or the classroom, I am committed to fostering spaces in which curiosity, creativity, and analytical thinking mutually inform one another, an approach essential for addressing the complex scientific, cultural, and societal challenges of our time.
Woodmere, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, 11598, United States
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