Nathalie Q. Balaban (Hebrew: נטלי בלבן) is an Israeli biophysicist and systems biologist.
Balaban completed her PhD degree in Condensed Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute.
She first became interested in biophysics and studied mechanical forces in cells with Benny Geiger in 2000.
She then joined Stanislas Leibler’s lab in Princeton University as a postdoctoral researcher, where she was a Robert H. Dicke Fellow.
Her research today is considered groundbreaking in the biophysical description of the responses of bacteria under antibiotic treatments,[2] and their implications for understanding treatment failure[3] and evolution of resistance[4] Balaban initiated and established, together with Professor Eran Sharon the "Scholar-Teacher" which creates academic research positions at the Hebrew University that include also part-time science teaching in high schools for the advancement of science teaching.