Thomas Fink
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Thomas Fink is an American physicist who has authored a number of papers on statistical and biological physics and two popular books. He is a Charge de Recherche at CNRS/Institut Curie and when not in Paris lives in England, where he has been resident since 1994.
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[edit] Education and positions
A native of Plattsburgh, New York, Fink studied physics at Caltech and at St John's College, Cambridge/Theory of Condensed Matter. He was a Junior Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and did a Postdoctorate at École Normale Supérieure. He now occupies his present CNRS/Institut Curie position.
[edit] Research
Fink's research focuses on biologically inspired problems in statistical mechanics, combinatorics and networks. His interests include protein design, information theory, DNA chips, boolean networks, network motifs and genetic networks.
Fink is presenty working on:
- Small boolean networks and dynamics of network motifs.
- Identifying non-random genes (or other data series) and gene-gene interactions.
- Analysis and theory of complex biological and social networks.
[edit] Books
The Man's Book (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2006) is a densely written and closely typeset reference book on essential information for men. It was published on 28 September 2006 in the UK and British Commonwealth. It is a handbook of men customs, habits and pursuits and a guide to the year ahead.
The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, (with Yong Mao, Fourth Estate, London, 1999) is a cultural, historical and mathematical examination of ties and tie knots. The book includes a layman's account of the authors' mathematical papers which derived all possible knots capable of being tied with a standard necktie. It has been published in 10 languages.
