Roster of Participants

I am an experimentalist with interests in the physics of biological and biologically-inspired materials.

I use theoretical and computational tools to understand how the properties of lipid bilayers emerge from their constituents and how the resulting membranes contribute to a host of biological functions.

I am a theoretical biophysicist - our group is particularly interested in using soft and active matter theory to understand multicellular self-organization.

I am a theorist who studies the collective behavior of group of cells in biological tissues as well as deformation and failure in disordered solids ranging from glasses to granular materials. We use computational and theoretical techniques and extend tools from statistical and soft matter physics to understand and predict emergent phenomena in these far from equilibrium systems, and work closely with experimentalists and scientists around the globe.

I am an experimentalist interested in untangling the relationship between the geometry and topology of a material and its emergent mechanical properties. I am particularly interested in the geometry and topology of textiles

I am an experimentalist. I use highly interdisciplinary approaches including theory and experiments to understand how computation is embodied in biological matter. Examples include cognition in single cell protists, morphological computing in animals with no neurons and origins of complex behavior in multi-cellular systems. Broadly, I invent new tools for studying non-model organisms with significant focus on life in the ocean - addressing fundamental questions of cell biology in context of its ecology? I am also dedicated towards inventing, building and scaling-up “frugal science” tools to democratize access to science such as Foldscope, diagnostics of deadly diseases like malaria and convening global citizen science communities to tackle planetary scale environmental challenges such as mosquito or plankton surveillance by citizen sailors mapping the ocean in the age of Anthropocene.

I am a theorist. I apply techniques from theoretical and computational physics to problems in soft condensed matter and biophysics. I am currently particularly interested in active matter and mechanobiology.