Reuben Saunders
2016 Hertz Fellow
Reuben Saunders is a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
He is broadly interested in understanding how molecules, whose behavior is governed by physical forces, can work together to create something as complicated as a cell. Reuben hails originally from Santa Cruz, California.
Graduate Studies
University of California, San Francisco
Biophysics
Undergraduate Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
2016, Churchill Scholar, Winston Churchill Foundation of U.S.
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