Clare C. Yu is an American theoretical biophysicist and condensed matter physicist.
She is also a former Alfred P. Sloan Fellow,[1] and a current Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics.
She conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
In developmental biology, she has used Monte Carlo simulations, particularly to investigate the development of the wing disc in Drosophila fruit flies and to study how, fundamentally, the organs and physical features of creatures emerge.
Additionally, she has deployed statistical techniques like maximum entropy to study cancer immunotherapy, uncovering under what conditions immune cells infiltrate tumors.