Roya Zandi is an American physicist whose research involves the self-assembly of the viruses and fluctuation-induced or Casimir forces.
[3] Zandi studied physics at California State University, Northridge, graduating summa cum laude in 1992 and continuing for a master's degree in 1994.[4].
She went to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for doctoral study in physics, completing her Ph.D. in 2001.
[6] After postdoctoral research at UCLA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Zandi became a faculty member at UC Riverside in 2005.
[5] She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2022, after a nomination from the APS Division of Biological Physics, "for the application of fundamental theories of elasticity, electrostatics, and phase transitions to elucidate unique physical phenomena arising in viral capsid formation, notably the origin of icosahedral symmetry, the role of disclinations, and the branched topology of RNA genomes".