Professional Title:
Faculty Affiliate, Johns Hopkins University
Education:
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy April 2014 Advisor: Randall D. Kamien Thesis: “Controlling defects in nematic and smectic liquid crystals through boundary geometry”
- Brandeis University, Waltham, MA B.S. in Physics with highest honors, B.A. in Mathematics May 2010
Research Interests:
- liquid crystalline states of active biological matter,
- self-assembly in complex fluids,
- and biological population genetics in connection with problems in statistical physics
