Troy Messina
Professor at Berea College
Berea, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolTroy Messina is a physics and biophysics professor with nearly three decades of research experience spanning semiconductors, solid-state physics, and protein dynamics. He combines hands-on experimental expertise—UHV thin films, photolithography, cryogenics, microfluidics, and single-molecule fluorescence—with strong computational modeling skills in C++, Python, Matlab and Igor Pro. His recent work probes protein-protein interactions and conformational signaling in bacterial chemotaxis, bringing quantitative kinetics and HMM-based photon analysis into undergraduate-led research. At liberal arts institutions he has built curricula and mentored students while maintaining an active research program, bridging industry-scale device practice and molecular biophysics. Based in Berea, Kentucky, he uniquely pairs semiconductor-era tooling and patent-driven process experience with modern biophysical approaches to study cellular signaling.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Post Doc Biophysics, Post Doc Biophysics at Princeton UniversityPh.D. Physics, Ph.D. Physics at The University of Texas at AustinPost Doc Physical Biochemistry, Post Doc Physical Biochemistry at Rutgers University
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Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
physics5
python5
jupyter1
jupyter-notebook1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
troymessina/ModernPhysics
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
Computing in Modern Physics course
Contributions:46 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
modern-physicsphysicspythoncomputing
troymessina/PhysicsArtOfModeling
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:173 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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