Our Group
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Prof. Eric R. Dufresne
Eric is an assistant professor of Mechanical
Engineering, Chemical
Engineering and Physics.
Eric is a 1996 graduate of Yale College
and earned his Ph.D with David Grier in the Physics department at the
University of Chicago in 2000. In the fall of 2000, Eric and
David helped to found Arryx, a company dedicated to developing and
applying holographic optical tweezers. In 2001-2002, Eric
consulted in the Washington, DC office of McKinsey & Co. From
2002-2004, Eric worked as a post-doctoral fellow
with Dave Weitz in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at
Harvard University.
eric.dufresne @ yale.edu
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Dr. Wilfried Engl
Wilfried
received his Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Bordeaux in 2007
under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Panizza. He is studying
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Dr. Holger Kress
Holger
carried out his doctoral research in the group of Ernst Stelzer at the
EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory). He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 2006, with Alexander
Rohrbach and Joerg Schmiedmayer. He is studying signalling networks in
live cells. Holger's research is supported in part by a fellowship from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Holger's Web Page
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Dr. Jin-Gyu Park
Jin-Gyu
is a Group Leader in the Functional Particles Group of Samsung Cheil
Industries and a post-doctoral fellow in our lab. Jin-Gyu
received his Ph.D. in the Department of Chemical Engineering of
Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. Jin-Gyu is an expert in the
synthesis of polymeric colloidal particles. He is synthesizing
monodisperse aniostropic particles and studying their self-assembly.
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Dr. Sunil Sainis
Sunil received his Ph.D. in Physics
from Yale University in 2006, with Prof. David DeMille. He is
studying the
charging of colloidal particles in nonpolar solvents.
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Dr. Alla Shundrovsky
Alla received
her Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University, where she studied
single molecule biophysics with Prof. Michelle Wang. Alla is
studying mechanotransduction in neurons and has a joint appointment in
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, where she is co-advised
by Prof. Paul Forscher.
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Dr. Marleen van der Veen
Marleen received her Ph.D. in
Chemistry from the University of Groningen in 2006 with Prof. Hummelen.
She is co-advised by Mark
Reed and is studying plasmons in metallic nanostructures.
Marleen's research is supported in part by a Rubicon Grant from
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Jason Forster
Jason is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering.
Jason is studying colloidal interactions mediated by biological
molecules. He is a 2005 graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University.
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Sara Hashmi
Sara is a Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering. Sara
is studying the flow of deformable objects in microfluidic channels,
and is co-advised with Michael Loewenberg. She is a 2001 graduate
of Harvard College. Sara's research is partially supported by a NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship. For more info on her research,
click here.
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Cecile Mejean
Cecile is a first-year Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering. She received her Masters from the Ecole Nationale
Superieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bourdeaux (ENSCPB) in
2005. Cecile is studying mechanotransduction in live cells.
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Jason Merrill
Jason is a first-year Ph.D. student in physics. He graduated from Amherst College in 2006 with degrees in physics and music. Jason in studying plasmons in metallic nanostructures. |
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Elissa Dunn
Elissa is a junior physics major. She is investigating self assembly of anisotropic microparticles. |
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Elizabeth Jerison
Elizabeth is a sophomore physics major. She is measuring forces generated by crawling cells. |
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Elise Novitski
Elise is a senior Physics major. She is investigating interactions between light and soft matter. |
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Madeleine Udell
Madeleine is a junior Physics major. She is investigating microhydrodynamic correlations. |
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Former Lab Members
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Dr. Vincent Germain - now at University of Lyon
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Dr. Aric Sanders - now at NIST Boulder
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| Aaron Barnet '08 (summer 2005) |
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| Stephen Chapin '07 (summer 2005, fall 2006, spring 2007) - now at MIT ChE |
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| Jacqueline Martinez '06 (fall 2005, spring 2006) - now at Oliver Wyman |
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Eleanor Millman '07 (fall 2005 - summer 2007) - now at Harvard Physics
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| Kristina Mois '06 (spring 2007) |
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Our Colleagues
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Collaborators at Yale
Soft Matter & Complex
Fluids
Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP)
Mark Reed - EE
Thierry Emonet - MCDB
Paul Forscher - MCDB
Christine Jacobs-Wagner - MCDB
Lynne Regan - MB&B
Elizabeth Rhoades - MB&B
Dan Wu - Medical School
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Collaborators at other academic
institutions
Ward Lopes - Mt. Holyoke
Orion Weiner - UCSF
Center for Cell
Analysis and Modeling - Universty of Connecticut Health Center
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Collaborators in industry
Cabot Corporation
Unilever Corporation
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