Silas Nissen
Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSilas Nissen is a physicist-trained postdoctoral scholar in Palo Alto with a decade of interdisciplinary research experience at the interface of biophysics, developmental biology, and quantitative modeling. He develops single-molecule imaging tools and mathematical frameworks to unravel how planar cell polarity complexes assemble and produce robust tissue-level patterning. His work uniquely combines point-particle polarity models and experiments in Drosophila to show how ultrasensitive dynamics can drive reliable polarization despite biological noise. Beyond cell polarity, Silas has applied his curiosity to topics from atmospheric science to publication bias, publishing theoretical and software contributions across fields. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric and Biophysics from the University of Copenhagen and brings deep teaching and international research experience to collaborative lab programs.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Guest student, Geoscience, Guest student, Geoscience at Aarhus UniversityNordlys student, Computer Science, Nordlys student, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Atmospheric and Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Atmospheric and Biophysics at University of CopenhagenNordlys student, Astrophysics, Nordlys student, Astrophysics at Stockholm University
Danish, English, Swedish, German, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
matlab7
segmentation6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SilasBoyeNissen/Circling-in-on-Convective-Self-Aggregation
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 49 commits, 44 pushes in 2 years 1 month
SilasBoyeNissen/song2023
Dec 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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