Raul Rabadan is a Spanish theoretical physicist and biologist working at Columbia University in New York City, NY. He is currently studying computational biology, systems biology, and the AIDS and influenza viruses. Prior to Columbia he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He is a former student of Spanish physicist Luis Ibaņez, and as such received his Ph.D. at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, in Madrid, Spain.
Dr. Rabadan is an expert on string theory phenomenology, specifically the physics of intersecting d-brane configurations. In his more recent research in physics he has studied the information paradox of black holes in the context of the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory duality, and has proposed several experiments to search for axions. He is currently focussing on theoretical biology and the genetics of viruses, in particular influenza viruses including influenza A virus subtype H1N1[1].