Professional Title:
Assistant Professor of Physics, Thrust 2, 3 / Thrust 2 Lead
Email:
Office:
COB 1, Room 313
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Education:
- Postdoctoral Scholar - James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
- Postdoctoral Scholar - Weizmann Institute
- Ph.D., 2012 - University of Florida
Research Interests:
- Soft condensed matter physics, particularly the use of continuum theories of matter and statistical physics to understand and discover new physical phenomena in biological matter occurring in cells and tissue
- Active material properties of the cellular cytoskeleton: a complex, tensile, shape-shifting, networked jelly that helps cells stick, pull, deform and crawl