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Severine Atis Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques (FAST) Advisor: Dominique Salin |
I am an experimentalist. Interests: condensed matter and non-linear physics |
 severine.atis [at] gmail.com |
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Edward Banigan University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Andrea Liu |
I am a theorist. Research interests: I am interested in the physical mechanisms and features of biological motility, and I currently study cell crawling and swimming, DNA partitioning, and migration of T cells. |
 ebanigan [at] sas.upenn.edu |
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Lev Barash Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences Advisor: Lev N. Shchur |
I am a theorist. I am interested in computational physics, fluid dynamics, parallel computations, random numbers. |
 barash [at] itp.ac.ru |
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Arvind Baskaran University of California, Irvine Advisor: John Lowengrub |
I am a theorist. I am interested in studying crystal growth through vapor phase deposition and nucleation of nano crystals from solutions. |
 baskaran [at] math.uci.edu |
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Daniel A. Beller University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Randall Kamien |
I am a theorist. Interests: Theory of liquid crystals and other soft materials; topological defects. |
 dbeller [at] sas.upenn.edu |
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Finn J. Box University of Manchester, UK Advisor: Tom Mullin |
I am an experimentalist. I am interested in the transition from laminar to turbulent flow in a pipe. |
 finn.box [at] postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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Michael P. Brenner, Scientific Coordinator & Lecturer Harvard University |
I am a theorist. I am interested in hydrodynamics, broadly interpreted. | |
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Antoine Bricard ESPCI Advisor: Denis Bartolo |
I am an experimentalist. Interests: Collective behavior, soft matter, hydrodynamics, biophysics |
 antoine.bricard [at] espci.fr |
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Nicolas Bruot Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge Advisor: Dr. Pietro Cicuta |
I am an experimentalist. I am interested in hydrodynamics at small length scales that involves colloidal particles. |
 nb394 [at] cam.ac.uk |
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Korana Burke University of California Merced Advisor: Kevin A. Mitchell |
I am a theorist. My interests are in the chaotic transport in phase space. In the past I studied the applications to atomic physics and currently I am planning to start working on the problems of transport and mixing in fluids. |
 kburke [at] ucmerced.edu |
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Brian Camley University of California, Santa Barbara Advisor: Frank Brown |
I’m a theoretical physicist. I work on problems in biophysics, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and soft condensed matter physics. |
 camley [at] physics.ucsb.edu |
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Hywel Carver UCL, UK |
I am a theorist. Interests: Petascale simulation of neurovascular haemodynamics to produce a real-time predictive tool for neurosurgeons. |
 hywel.carver.09 [at] ucl.ac.uk |
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Cesare Cejas Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI (CNRS Complex Assemblies of Soft Matter - COMPASS) Advisors: Christian Fretigny (ESPCI-Paris 6) and Rémi Dreyfus (COMPASS) |
I am an experimentalist interested in fluids in porous media, soft materials (polymers), and surface physics. |
 cesare.cejas [at] etu.upmc.fr |
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Michael L. Chemama Harvard University Advisor: Michael Brenner |
I am a theorist. Interests: Fluid Mechanics Theory; Combustion. |
 chemama [at] fas.harvard.edu |
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Bryan G. Chen University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Randall D Kamien |
I’m a theorist. I like thinking about the geometry and topology of soft materials, for instance, topological defects in liquid crystals, dry foams, or the elasticity of thin non-Euclidean strips. | |
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Daniel TN Chen Brandeis University Advisors: Zvonimir Dogic and Daniela Nicastro |
I am an experimentalist. My research interests include: hydrodynamics of cilia and flagella and rheology of soft materials. |
 danchen [at] brandeis.edu |
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Woosong Choi Cornell University Advisor: James P. Sethna |
I am a theorist. Interests: Statistical physics, physics of defects, nonlinear hydrodynamics, high performance computing with many core processors(GPGPU). |
 wc274 [at] cornell.edu |
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Thiparat Chotibut Harvard University Advisor: David R. Nelson |
I am a theorist. My research interests lie in the areas of fluid dynamics, turbulence, and statistical mechanics with a focus on advection-reaction-diffusion systems in the presence of low and high Reynolds number flow. |
 chotibut [at] physics.harvard.edu |
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Jan Christoph Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Advisor: Stefan Luther |
I am an experimentalist. Interests: Pattern Formation and Self-Organizational Processes, Electromechanical Coupling and Dynamics of Cardiac Tissue. |
 jan.christoph [at] ds.mpg.de |
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Fabien Closa ESPCI, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Theorique Advisor: Elie Raphael |
I am a theorist. My areas of physics interest are : Polyelectrolytes and instabilities of thin polymer layer. (keywords : polymer, instabilities, elasticity, electromagnetism) |
 fabien.closa [at] espci.fr |
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Samira Darvishi Stony Brook University Advisor: Thomas Cubaud |
I’m an experimentalist and work on manipulation of highly viscous liquids in small-scale. My research interests are microfluidics, multi-phase flow, rheology of complex fluids, and microfabrication. |
 sdarvish [at] ic.sunysb.edu |
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Sujit S. Datta Harvard University Advisor: David A. Weitz |
I am an experimentalist who studies nanoscale and soft materials; I work on topics such as fluid dynamics in porous media, rheology of complex fluids (such as colloids and emulsions), mechanics of “armored” droplets, moving reactive droplets, and the physics/chemistry of nanoscale materials. I also do some simple theory on the side. | |
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Marcelo A. Dias University of Massachusetts, Amherst Advisor: Christian D. Santangelo |
I am a theorist. Interests: Geomoetry of Soft Condensed Matter |
 madias [at] physics.umass.edu |
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Bruno Eckhardt, Lecturer Philipps-Universitaet Marburg |
I am a theorist. My main interests are the transition to turbulence and applications of dynamical systems ideas to low and high Reynolds number flows. | |
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Gwynn J. Elfring University of California, San Diego Advisor: Eric Lauga |
I am a theorist. I am interested in biological fluid mechanics, in particular the interaction and synchronization of bodies in Stokes flow. | |
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Jake E. Ellowitz James Franck Institute/University of Chicago Advisor: Wendy Zhang |
I am a theorist. Interests: Ideal fluid flow from granular jet impact |
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Lisa Fauci, Lecturer Tulane University |
I am a theorist. I use methods from computational fluid dynamics to understand biological processes such as sperm motility, the neuromechanics of locomotion, and phytoplankton dynamics in the ocean. |
 ljf [at] math.tulane.edu |
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Enrico Fonda University of Maryland, College Park Advisors: Katepalli R. Sreenivasan / Daniel P. Lathrop |
I am an experimentalist. Interests: Visualization of quantized vortex dynamics in superfluid helium |
 efonda [at] umd.edu |
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Sebastian Fürthauer Max Planck Institute for the physics of complex systems and the Max Planck Institute of molecular cell biology and genetics Advisors: Frank Jülicher and Stephan Grill |
I am a theorist. My research is focussed on active chiral fluids, aiming at understanding the influence of the chirality of biomolecules on their collective hydrodynamic properties. |
 bastian [at] pks.mpg.de |
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Nigel Goldenfeld, Lecturer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
I am a theorist. I mainly study how patterns evolve in time, be they snowflakes, the microstructures of materials, the turbulent flow of fluids, geological formations, or even the spatial organisation of microbes. Our other focus is on emergent states of matter: the new laws of physics that arise in a system, due to the collective behaviour of its parts (atoms or organisms). Superconductivity and turbulence are physical examples; the complexity of living organisms and ecosystems are biological examples. | |
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Daniel Goldman, Lecturer Georgia Tech |
I am an experimentalist. Our research addresses problems in nonequilibrium systems that involve interaction of physical and biological matter with complex materials (like granular media) that can flow when stressed. We integrate laboratory and field studies of organism biomechanics with systematic laboratory studies of physics of the substrates, create models of the substrates, and create mathematical and physical (robot) models of the organisms. | |
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Jerry Gollub, Lecturer Haverford College |
I am an experimentalist. I have investigated nonlinear and non-equilibrium phenomena involving chaotic dynamics and pattern formation of ordinary and elastic fluids, the behavior of particle suspensions, and recently the fluid motion induced by swimming microorganisms. I have co-authored Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction, an undergraduate textbook, and I teach courses intended for a broad audience at Haverford. I am also affiliated with the Physics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. | |
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Manuel Gomez-Gonzalez University of California, San Diego Advisor: Juan Carlos del Alamo |
I am a theorist. I am interested in Biomechanics and Biological Fluid Mechanics. |
manu [at] ucsd.edu |
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Carl P. Goodrich University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Andrea Liu |
I am a theorist. I am interested in theoretical soft condensed matter, specifically granular media and the jamming/unjamming transition. |
 cpgoodri [at] sas.upenn.edu |
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Anette (Peko) Hosoi, Scientific Coordinator & Lecturer MIT |
Research interests: fluid mechanics, free surface flows, locomotion, bio-inspired design. | |
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Jean-Francois Joanny, Lecturer Institut Curie Centre de Recherche |
I am a theorist and I am interested in physics related to cell biology, study of the cytoskeleton, molecular motors, mechanics and growth of tissues. | |
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Gabriel Juarez University of Pennsylvania Advisors: Paulo E. Arratia |
I am an experimentalist. I am interested in complex and nonlinear systems, mixing and self-organization in granular matter, microfluidics, polymer physics, and bio-fluid dynamics. |
 gjuarez [at] seas.upenn.edu |
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Hsien-Ching Kao University of Califnoria, Berkeley Advisor: Edgar Knobloch |
I am an theorist whose interests are: method of asymptotic, pattern formation, amplitude equations for spatially extended systems, bifurcation theory. |
 hckao [at] berkeley.edu |
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Justin Kao Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advisors: Stephen H. Davis and Alexander A. Golovin |
I am a theorist. Interests: Interfacial and multiphase fluid dynamics, including solidification, surface tension, and flows of suspensions. |
 kaoj [at] mit.edu |
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Anthony A. Karmis University of California, Santa Barbara Advisor: Philip A. Pincus |
I am a theorist. I’m interested in biological physics, specifically the fields of cell motility, neuroscience, and evolution. |
 anthony [at] physics.ucsb.edu |
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Nidhi Khurana Yale University Advisor: Prof Nicholas T. Ouellette |
I am a theorist. I am interested in problems of mixing and transport and am using numerical methods to investigate dynamics of active particles in chaotic flow. |
 nidhi.khurana [at] yale.edu |
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Daphne Klotsa University of Bath Advisor: Robert L. Jack |
I am a theorist but I have done experiments too. I am interested in granular systems in fluids, swimming organisms and self-assembly of colloids. | |
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John M. Kolinski Harvard University Advisor: L. Mahadevan |
I am an experimentalist. Interests: Fluid mechanics, contact mechanics, tribology, nonlinear physics, experiment & theory |
kolinski [at] fas.harvard.edu |
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Daniel Lathrop, Scientific Coordinator & Lecturer University of Maryland |
I am an experimentalist. I am interested in nonlinear dynamics; turbulence as effected by rotation, magnetic fields, and long range quantum order. | |
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Detlef Lohse, Lecturer University of Twente |
I am a theorist. Our group is studying various flow phenomena, in particular those related with bubbles. We use both experimental, theoretical, and numerical techniques. Our main research areas are: Turbulence and Two-Phase Flow Granular Flow Micro- and Nanofluidics Biomedical Application of Bubbles. | |
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Enkeleida Lushi Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU Advisor: Michael J. Shelley |
I am a theorist interested in modeling, analysis and computation of phenomena in complex fluids, in particular active suspensions. |
 lushi [at] cims.nyu.edu |
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Ananyo Maitra Indian Institute of Science Advisor: Sriram Ramaswamy |
I am a theorist. Interests: Active matter hydrodynamics |
 nyomaitra [at] physics.iisc.ernet.in |
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David P. Meichle University Of Maryland, College Park Advisor: Dan Lathrop |
I am an experimentalist. Interests: Vortex Reconnection in Superfluid Helium |
 meichled [at] gmail.com |
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Hector C. Mireles Cal Poly Pomona |
I am an experimentalist. I’m interested in all methods of studying soft and hard condensed matter, using microscopy methods. |
 hcmireles [at] csupomona.edu |
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Leila Nasr Azadani Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Advisor: Dr. Anne Staples |
I am a theorist. I am a computational fluid dynamist. My main interest is fluid mechanics with emphasis on turbulence. |
 leila [at] vt.edu |
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Katie Osterday University of California, San Diego Advisor: Juan Carlos del Alamo |
I am an experimentalist. I study the anisotropic, microrheological properties of eukaryotic cytoplasm to understand how the stress-strain relationship gives the cell a means to sense external stresses. |
 katie.osterday [at] gmail.com |
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Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Lecturer Kent State University |
I am an experimentalist. I’m interested in the dynamics of liquid crystal systems and the optics of metamaterials. | |
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Jae Sung Park University of Illinois Advisor: David Saintillan |
I am a theorist and my research interests include the modeling and simulations of hydrodynamic interactions in Stokes flows and elctrokinetic and hydrodynamic effects in colloidal suspensions. |
 park80 [at] illinois.edu |
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Shima Parsa Wesleyan University Advisor: Greg Voth |
I am an experimentalist. My area of physics interest is: “Dynamics of particles and pattern formation in fluid flows” |
 sparsamoghad [at] wesleyan.edu |
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Mykhailo Pevnyi Kent State University Advisor: Peter Palffy-Muhoray |
I am a theorist. Interests: Soft matter physics, liquid crystals physics, electro-optics of liquid crystals, nonlinear effects in soft materials. |
 mpevnyi [at] kent.edu |
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Julia Pulwicki University of Calgary Advisor: David Hobill |
I am a theorist interested in fluid dynamics on time-evolving geometries, especially in relation to plant leaf growth. |
 jpulwick [at] ucalgary.ca |
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Nawal Quennouz PMMH Lab (Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes), ESPCI, Paris Advisors: Anke Lindner and Olivia du Roure |
I am an experimentalist. I am working on an experimental study of the complex transport dynamics of an elastic fiber interacting with a viscous flow. |
 nawal.quennouz [at] espci.fr |
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David Quéré, Lecturer ESPCI |
I am an experimentalist. I work in the field of soft interfaces - drops, bubbles, films, surfactants, morphogenesis. |
 david.quere [at] espci.fr |
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Leo Radzihovsky, Director University of Colorado |
I am interested in the theory of states of condensed matter and phase transitions between them, particularly in systems where fluctuations and correlations are qualitatively important. (Theorist) | |
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Marie-Charlotte Renoult FAST laboratory (PARIS6 University) Advisor: Pierre Carles |
I am an experimetalist and a theorist. I am interested in fluid instabilities and phase transition. |
 mc.renoult [at] gmail.com |
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Cecilia Rorai University of Maryland Advisors: K. R. Sreenivasan, Michael E. Fisher, D. P. Lathrop |
I am a theorist. Interests: Numerical simulation of vortex reconnection in superfluid helium. |
 ceciliarorai [at] gmail.com |
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Krzysztof Sadlej Princeton University Advisor: Bogdan Cichocki |
I am trained in theoretical statistical physics. Last years I’ve been working mostly on simulations in low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, and recently I’m more involved in experimental work. Area of reserach - complex fluids, hydrodynamic interactions, microfluidics |
 ksadlej [at] princeton.edu |
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Andela Saric Columbia University Advisor: Prof. Angelo Cacciuto |
I am a theorist in the field of complex fluids. I work on self assembly on soft surfaces, phase transformations of fluid vesicles and am interested in self-assembly of active matter. | |
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Barry Scharfman MIT Advisor: Alexandra Techet |
I am an experimentalist. My research interests include experimental hydrodynamics, multiphase flows, sprays, PIV, liquid jets and sheets in crossflows of air, and Rayleigh–Taylor, Rayleigh–Plateau, and bag instabilities. |
 barryes [at] mit.edu |
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Ayusman Sen, Lecturer Pennsylvania State University |
I am an experimentalist. My research interests encompass catalysis, organometallic and polymer chemistry, and nanotechnology. We have pioneered the field of catalytically-driven nano and micromotors. | |
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Michael J. Shelley, Scientific Coordinator & Lecturer Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU |
I am a theorist and I am interested in the dynamics of complex fluids arising in physics, engineering, and biology | |
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Hong-Yan Shih University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Advisor: Professor Nigel Goldenfeld |
I am a theorist. My main research interest now is two-dimensional turbulence and its analogies to statistical mechanics. |
 hshih7 [at] illinois.edu |
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Tamar T. Shinar University of California, Riverside |
I am a theorist. My research interests include computational fluid dynamics and solid mechanics, solid/fluid coupling, modeling and simulation of the mechanics of biological cells, and physically-based simulation for computer graphics. |
 ttshinar [at] gmail.com |
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Maksim Sipos University of Illinois Advisor: Nigel Goldenfeld |
I am a theorist. I am interested in Phenomenological modeling of transition to turbulence in Fluid Dynamics and statistical mechanics of Ecology. |
 sipos2 [at] illinois.edu |
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Anton Souslov University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Tom Lubensky |
I am a theorist and my research can be described as: “I study models of spring lattices at isostaticity, which exhibit soft elastic behavior reminiscent of physical systems such as granular packings near the jamming transition and semi-flexible polymer networks.” |
 asouslov [at] sas.upenn.edu |
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Kathrin Spendier University of New Mexico Advisors: James L. Thomas (experiment) and V.M. Kenkre (theory) |
I am an experimentalist and a theorist. I am interested in the techniques of experimental physics such as novel imaging approaches, single cell micromanipulation, and fluctuation spectroscopy. My theoretical interests include exciton motion in molecular crystals and correlations between molecules in fluids. |
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Kathleen J. Stebe, Lecturer University of Pennsylvania |
I am a chemical engineer who studies complex fluid interfaces including Marangoni effects, surfactants, and particle-laden interfaces. I use experiment, theory and simulation to understand mechanisms relating interfacial physicochemistry to mechanical responses. |
 kstebe [at] seas.upenn.edu |
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Maria Strempel Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Advisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Jülicher |
I am a theorist. I am interested in the hydrodynamics of active chiral fluids. My research focuses on describing carpets of chirally beating motors in a fluid. |
 marias [at] pks.mpg.de |
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Scott A. Strong Colorado School of Mines Advisor: Lincoln D. Carr |
I am a theorist. I am in mathematical physics as it pertains to fluid dynamics, epsecially the vortex dynamics of quantum fluids and their asscociated connection to superfluid turbulence. |
 sstrong [at] mines.edu |
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Isaac Theurkauff Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Advisors: Cécile Cottin-Bizonne and Lydéric Bocquet |
I am an experimentalist, studying the collective dynamics of self propelled colloids. I am interested in low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, catalytic chemistry, and far from equilibrium active matter. I’m also interested in outreach : super-simple science experiments that help non-physicists understand what we do. |
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Laurette Tuckerman, Lecturer PMMH-ESPCI |
I am a theorist. I use the complementary approaches of computational fluid dynamics and bifurcation analysis to study various hydrodynamic instabilities: spherical, plane, and Taylor- Couette flow; Rayleigh-Benard, Marangoni, and binary fluid convection; Faraday and Eckhaus instabilities . | |
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Hervé Turlier Institut Curie, Paris, France Advisor: Jean-François Joanny |
I am a theorist. Active gel theory, rheology of active matter, fluctuation-dissipation in active systems |
 herve.turlier [at] curie.fr |
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Greg A. Voth, Lecturer Wesleyan University |
I am an experimentalist. I study turbulent fluids and granular materials using high resolution video particle tracking. | |
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Yuxuan Wang University of Wisconsin, Madison Advisor: Stanislav Boldyrev |
I am a theorist. Interested Areas: MHD Turbulence in Astrophysical Flow; Quantum Many-body problem in Condensed Matter Physics (currently switched direction to the latter) |
 wang238 [at] wisc.edu |
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Kali E. Wilson University of Arizona Advisor: Brian P. Anderson |
I am an experimentalist. My areas of interest include studies of superfluid vortices, phase transitions, and quantum turbulence in Bose-Einstein condensates. |
 kwilson [at] optics.arizona.edu |
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David Zwicker Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Advisor: Frank Jülicher |
I am a theorist. Research interest: Physical description of centrosome assembly and disassembly |
 zwicker [at] pks.mpg.de |
