The field of biological physics has undergone a rapid expansion in recent years, with scientists now using physics-based approaches to study problems ranging from molecular structure the collective movement of animal swarms.

The Journal of Biological Physics provides a dedicated home for all areas of biological physics. We seek cutting-edge papers using physics in innovative ways to further our understanding of biological problems.

All areas of biological physics can be addressed, from the molecular level, through the mesoscale of membranes and cells, up to the macroscopic level of populations of living organisms. The main criteria for acceptance are the physical content of the research and its relevance to biological systems. In order to increase the links between physics and biology and among the various fields of biological physics, authors are advised to include a first section that introduces the basic issues addressed and the primary achievements to a non-specialist scientific reader.

The Journal of Biological Physics welcomes Original Research (in-depth longer articles), Research Letters (shorter, high impact work), Reviews and Perspectives articles.

The studies published will be organized under Topical Sections which reflect the biological scale of the problems studied:
-Biological Physics of Nucleic Acids and Proteins
-Biological Physics of Lipids and Membranes
-Big Data: Proteomics, Genomics and Lipidomics
-Biological Physics of the Cell
-Genetic Networks
-Physiology
-Neurodynamics & Neural Connectivity
-Ecology & Evolutionary Processes
-Collective Behavior
-Other (General Biological Physics)

Under the last section “Other (General Biological Physics)”, the journal welcomes all biological physics studies that might be difficult to fit in any other specific topical section.

Editors-in-Chief:
Sonya Bahar
Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA
Editorial Board:

Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Gábor Balázsi, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Giuseppe Battaglia, University College London, UK
Sergey M. Bezrukov, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MA, USA
Hans A. Braun, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany
Shyamsunder Erramilli, Boston University, MA, USA
Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA
Irene Georgakoudi, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
Thomas Höfer, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Boston University, MA, USA
Mikko Karttunen, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Johan R.C. van der Maarel, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ralf Metzler, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Cristian Micheletti, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Ali Naji, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Ronin Institute, Montclair NJ, USA
Michel Peyrard, Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Wokyung Sung, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Jack A. Tuszynski, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Brigita Urbanc, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Jin Wang, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Mathias Winterhalter, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany