Rae Robertson-Anderson
Rae Marie Robertson-Anderson is an American biophysicist who is Associate Professor at the University of San Diego. She works on soft matter physics and is particularly interested in the transport and molecular mechanics of biopolymer networks. Robertson-Anderson is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research. Early life and education Robertson-Anderson grew up in Cincinnati, where she realised that she liked physics at high school. She studied physics at Georgetown University and graduated magna cum laude in 2003. She was supported by a Clare Boothe Luce scholarship to study the diffusion of granular materials. She was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Robertson-Anderson moved to the University of California, San Diego for her graduate studies, completing a National Science Foundation supported PhD under the supervision of Douglas Smith on single-molecule studies of DNA. She used video fluorescence microscopy and single molecule tracking to monitor the diffusion coefficients of engineered DNA. Robertson-Anderson joined The Scripps Research Institute as a postdoctoral researcher working with David Millar. She worked on single-molecule microscopy to establish the binding kinetics in HIV-1 regulatory proteins. Research and career Robertson-Anderson joined the faculty of University of San Diego in 2009. She leads the Robertson-Anderson biophysics laboratory. She