Joshua Shaevitz is professor of physics and biophysics in the Department of Physics and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. He did undergraduate work at Columbia University in New York and received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 2004. Prior to his appointment at Princeton, he was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Shaevitz's work focuses on precision measurements in a variety of biological systems, focusing on topics related to cell shape in bacteria, active matter and pattern formation in groups of moving cells, and the quantification of animal behavior. He is the recipient of several awards and honors, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an APS Fellowship, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), among others. He also serves as co-Director of the Center for the Physics of Biological Function and is the Director of Graduate Studies for the Graduate Program in Biophysics at Princeton University.