People

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Physics

Affiliate to the BQBS Program

BS Johns Hopkins, PhD MIT, Postdoc UChicago/Inst Curie

Michelle Markey
Lab Administrator
michelle.markey@yale.edu

Sulaiman Yousafzai Muhammad
PhD, University of Trieste
muhammad.yousafzai@yale.edu

Scientific Interests: Single cell mechanics, forces in spreading cell aggregates.

Personal Interests: Poetry, good food, history and current affairs.

Pasha Tabatabai
PhD, Georgetown University
alan.tabatabai@yale.edu

Scientific Interests: Assembly and mechanics of biomaterials, energy utilization and dissipation within the cytoskeleton.

Personal Interests: Hiking and cooking.

Vikrant Yadav
PhD, Clark University
vikrant.yadav@yale.edu

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.

Camelia Tusan Muresan
PhD, University of Southampton
camelia.muresan@yale.edu

Scientific Interests: Molecular control of cell polarization, mechanotransduction and regenerative medicine.

Personal Interest: Hiking, traveling, science communication, classical music.

Dong Wang
PhD, Duke University
dong.wang@yale.edu

Scientific Interests: Migration of cells on soft substrates, granular materials.

Personal Interest: Soccer, movies and history.

Laura Lanier
PhD, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
laura.lanier@yale.edu

Scientific Interests: Biophysics, nanomechanics, regenerative medicine.

Personal Interest: Reading fiction, baking and quilting.

	Danny Seara Physics Department, NSF Graduate Fellow BS, New York University daniel.seara@yale.edu 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.
	Sorosh Amiri Mechanical Engineering MS, Sharif University of Technology sorosh.amiri@yale.edu Scientific Interests: Mechanobiology of cell migration in confined spaces. Personal Interests: Performing music, traveling, animation.
	Daniel Green Physics Department BA, Swarthmore College d.green@yale.edu Scientific Interests: Biophysics and Non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Personal Interests: Soccer, music, stand-up comedy.
	Zachary Sun Physics Department BA & BS, University of Massachusetts - Amherst zachary.sun@yale.edu Scientific Interests: Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Stochastic processes (theory), Cell force generation, Artificial cells (experiment). Personal Interests: Basketball, creative writing/poetry, flute, language acquisitions.