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Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Physics Member, Systems Biology Institute Affiliate to the BQBS Program BS Johns Hopkins, PhD MIT, Postdoc UChicago/Inst Curie |
Administrative Staff
Michelle Markey |
Post-doctoral Associates
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Sulaiman Yousafzai Muhammad Scientific Interests: Single cell mechanics, forces in spreading cell aggregates. Personal Interests: Poetry, good food, history and current affairs. |
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Pasha Tabatabai Scientific Interests: Assembly and mechanics of biomaterials, energy utilization and dissipation within the cytoskeleton.
Personal Interests: Hiking and cooking.
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Vikrant Yadav Scientific Interests: Active matter physics, biophysics, and Granular Mechanics. Designing low cost experiments. Personal Interests: Standup comedy and documentaries, reading non-fiction, and physics of social systems. |
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Camelia Tusan Muresan Scientific Interests: Molecular control of cell polarization, mechanotransduction and regenerative medicine. Personal Interest: Hiking, traveling, science communication, classical music. |
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Dong Wang Scientific Interests: Migration of cells on soft substrates, granular materials. Personal Interest: Soccer, movies and history. |
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Laura Lanier Scientific Interests: Biophysics, nanomechanics, regenerative medicine. Personal Interest: Reading fiction, baking and quilting. |
Graduate Students
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Danny Seara Scientific Interests: Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, stochastic processes, active matter theory and simulation. Personal Interests: History and philosophy of science, science communication, outreach, writing music. |
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Sorosh Amiri Scientific Interests: Mechanobiology of cell migration in confined spaces. Personal Interests: Performing music, traveling, animation. |
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Daniel Green Scientific Interests: Biophysics and Non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Personal Interests: Soccer, music, stand-up comedy. |
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Zachary Sun Scientific Interests: Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Stochastic processes (theory), Cell force generation, Artificial cells (experiment). Personal Interests: Basketball, creative writing/poetry, flute, language acquisitions. |
Undergraduate Students
Aaliyah Ibrahim |
Frank Fazekas Physics Department frank.fazekas@yale.edu |
Alumni
Ian Linsmeier (PhD, December 2018)
Gwilherm Jaspard (Graduate student, Ecole Polytechnique, Summer 2017)
Joel Lemiere (Postdoc, 2016-2017)