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Michael Rubinstein received a B.S. from Caltech in 1979 and a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1983. After two years as a post-doc at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he joined the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company where he worked for 10 years. In 1995 Michael Rubinstein started his academic career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 2018 he moved to Duke University where he is currently Aleksander S. Vesic Distinguished Professor of Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry.  In 2016 Rubinstein became a Distinguished Professor at Hokkaido University. In 2003 he published a textbook “Polymer Physics” with R. H. Colby. In 2010 he received the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society. In 2018 he received the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology and in 2019 the Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2025 he received ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry. Rubinstein is currently serving as the Chair of the IUPAP Working Group on Soft Matter. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.