Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Lea Gassab is a Provost Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, conducting research across biology, chemistry, and physics. She holds a PhD in Physics from Koç University, Türkiye, and a master's degree in Theoretical Physics from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.
Her research lies at the intersection of quantum biology, molecular biophysics, and complex systems science. She investigates how molecular structure, network organization, and collective physical phenomena influence energy transfer and light–matter interactions in biological systems, particularly neuronal microtubules. Her work combines quantum theoretical models, molecular simulations, fluorescence spectroscopy, and experimental biophysics to investigate these processes and their potential relevance to neural function and neurodegeneration. She also explores quantum sensing approaches for biological applications, with an interest in connecting molecular-scale mechanisms to experimentally testable predictions.