
Wei-Chun Chin
Associate Professor
wchin2@ucmerced.edu
Biological Engineering, Thrust 2
Polymer physics and engineering of cellular and environmental systems

Nora M. Cole
Programs Manager
ncole2@ucmerced.edu
(209) 228-3603

Mike Colvin
Professor
mcolvin@ucmerced.edu
Chemistry and Chemical biology, Thrust 1
models of biological processes and molecular dynamics of disordered proteins

Ariel Escobar
Professor
aescobar4@ucmerced.edu
Biological Engineering, Thrust 1
Calcium in cardiac cellular signaling and techniques to study cardiac cells in vivo

Anand Gadre
agadre@ucmerced.edu
Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry, Thrust 2
Nanotechnology, medical device development, sensor development, drug delivery

Sayantani Ghosh
Associate Professor
sghosh@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 2
experimental condensed matter physics, magnetism, metamaterials, nanoscience and quantum systems

Ajay Gopinathan
Co-Director, Professor
agopinathan@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 2 Lead, Thrust 1, 2, 3
theoretical biophysics, biopolymers, transport and collective behavior

Arvind Gopinath
agopinath@ucmerced.edu
Mechanical Engineering, Thrust 3
fluid dynamics, polymers and active soft matter – theory and simulations

Linda Hirst
Professor
lhirst@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 2
experimental soft matter physics and biophysics

Carrie Kouadio
Executive Director
ckouadio@ucmerced.edu
(209) 228-3608

Bin Liu
Assistant Professor
bliu27@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 3
bacterial motility in complex media and single-cell behavior in biological processes

Andy LiWang
Professor
aliwang@ucmerced.edu
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Thrust 1
structural biology of circadian clock proteins and nucleic acids, NMR spectroscopy

Kara McCloskey
Associate Professor
kmccloskey@ucmerced.edu
Biological Engineering, Thrust 3 Lead
stem cell and tissue engineering for regenerative medicine applications

Victor Muñoz
Co-Director, Professor
vmunoz3@ucmerced.edu
Biological Engineering, Thrust 1 Lead
protein folding, structure prediction and design, protein aggregation

David Quint
Project Scientist
dquint@ucmerced.edu

Mourad Sadqi
Project Scientist
msadqi@ucmerced.edu

Anand Bala Subramaniam
Assistant Professor
asubramaniam@ucmerced.edu
Biological Engineering, Thrust 2
experimental biophysics, cellular reconstitution, experimental synthetic biology

Lin Tian
Associate Professor
ltian@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 2
theoretical quantum optics, quantum information processing and quantum simulation in condensed matter systems

Jing Xu
Assistant Professor
jing.xu@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 2
experimental biophysics, quantitative biology single-molecule analysis of molecular motors

Tao Ye
Assistant Professor
tye2@ucmerced.edu
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Thrust 2
Biomolecular science and engineering, nanotechnology















