Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Professor, Physics, UMN, 1999-present
Visiting Scientist, Physics, MIT, 1993-1999
Professor, Biophysics, Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, 1988-1992
Researcher to Leading Researcher, Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1972-1992

Selected Publications

Alexander Yu.Grosberg, Alexei R.Khokhlov "After-action of the ideas of I.M.Lifshitz in polymer and biopolymer physics," Advances in Polymer Science, v. 196, p. 189-210, 2006.

Tao Hu, A.Y.Grosberg, B.I.Shklovskii "How proteins search for their specific sites on DNA: the role of DNA conformation," Biophysical Journal, v. 90, n. 4, p. 2731-2744, 2006. (q-bio.BM/0510043).

Tao Hu, A.Y.Grosberg, B.I.Shklovskii "The suspension of nanowires in a weakly conducting medium," Physical Review B, v. 73, n. 5, 155434, 2006 (cond-mat/0602154).

Rhonald C. Lua, Alexander Y. Grosberg "Statistics of Knots, Geometry of Conformations, and Evolution of Proteins," PLoS Computational Biology, v. 2, n. 5, e45 (8 pages), 2006.

A.Y.Grosberg, S.Nechaev, M.Tamm, O. Vasilyev "How long does it take to pull an ideal polymer into a small hole?," Physical Review Letters, v. 96, 228105, 2006. (cond-mat/0510418).

N.T.Moore, A.Y.Grosberg "Abundance of trivial knots in various polymer chain models," J. Phys. A: Math. & Gen. v. 39, p. 9081-9092, 2006. (cond-mat/0604225)

S.Rapaport, Y.Rabin, A.Y.Grosberg "Worm-Like Polymer Loops and Fourier Knots," J. Phys. A: Math. & Gen. v. 39, p. L507-L513, 2006. (cond-mat/0510805)

Edo Kussell, Stanislas Leibler, and Alexander Grosberg "Polymer-population mapping and localization in the space of phenotypes," Phys. Rev. Lett. v. 97, 068101, 2006.