Shraiman earned a PhD from
Harvard in 1983 and did postdoctoral work at the
University of Chicago in the
James Franck Institute. In his early work, Shraiman addressed how dynamical systems transition to chaos and how patterns form in viscous flows and dendritic growth. He moved to
Bell Labs, where he worked on quantum materials, then later became a professor at
Rutgers University in 2002 and the
University of California, Santa Barbara in 2004. He has advanced the understanding of
turbulent fluids, and developed models to describe evolutionary dynamics in populations such as
influenza. He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. Shraiman chaired the 27th
Solvay Conference in Physics: "Physics of Living Matter: Space, Time and Information" in 2017. == References ==