Dr. Peter Hugo Nelson received a master’s degree in Physics from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand in 1990 where he initially developed kinetic Monte Carlo simulation techniques. As a PhD student at MIT, he further developed these techniques while studying the traditional chemical engineering approach to modeling transport phenomena. After graduating from MIT in 1998 with a PhD in Chemical Engineering, Nelson held a post-doctoral position in physical chemistry at the University of Massachusetts. In 2000 he was awarded an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantitative Biology. In 2002 Nelson began teaching undergraduate Physics, Biophysics and Physiological Modeling. Since then, he has been developing guided-inquiry teaching materials with NSF support. He is interested in curricular reform for the quantitative life sciences and developing introductory scientific computing course materials. He is publishing a book “Biophysics and Physiological modeling” with Cambridge University Press. See http://circle4.com/biophysics