Our Group
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Prof. Eric R. Dufresne
Eric is the John J. Lee Assistant Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and has joint appointments in Chemical
Engineering, Physics and Cell Biology.
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. Guy German
Guy is originally from London and received his
doctoral degree from the University of Edinburgh. He has degrees
in astrophysics, aerodynamics and complex fluids. 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
Before joining our lab, Jin-Gyu was a Group Leader in the Functional Particles Group of Samsung Cheil
Industries. 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. 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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Jason Forster
Jason is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering.
Jason is studying self assembly of biologically inspired materials. He is a 2005 graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University.
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Aaron Mertz
Aaron
is a Ph.D. student in physics. He earned a bachelor's degree in
physics from Washington University in St. Louis and completed a
master's degree in history of science, medicine, and technology at the
University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He is researching
the mechanics of tissues. His studies are supported by a
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
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Cecile Mejean
Cecile is a 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 Ph.D. student in physics. He graduated from Amherst College in 2006 with degrees in physics and music. Jason is studying colloidal interactions. |
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Ye Xu
Ye
is a Ph.D student in mechanical engineering. He graduated from
Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006. He is studying fracture in
thin films. |
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Alexandra Beautyman
Alexandra is a junior physics major from Pennsylvania. She developing a method for fast 3D imaging. |
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Elizabeth Jerison
Elizabeth is a senior physics major from Massachusetts. She is measuring contact line forces. |
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Former Lab Members
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Dr. Vincent Germain - now at University of Lyon
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Dr. Sunil Sainis - now at E*Ink
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| Dr. Marleen van der Veen - now at IMEC, Belgium |
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| Dr. Wilfried Engl - now at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Singapore |
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| Dr. Aric Sanders - now at NIST Boulder |
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| Dr. Sara Hashmi - now at Yale Chemical Engineering |
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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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| Elise Novitski '08 (fall 2006 - summer 2008) - now at Harvard Physics |
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| Kristina Mois '06 (spring 2007) |
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| Madeleine Udell '09 (spring - summer 2008) - now at Stanford Applied Math |
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| Elissa Dunn '09 (fall 2007 - fall 2008) - now at D. E. Shaw |
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Our Colleagues
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Some of our Collaborators at Yale
Soft Matter & Complex
Fluids
Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP)
Hui Cao - Applied Physics
Douglas Stone - Applied Physics
Tarrek Fahmy - Biomedical Engineering
Paul Forscher - MCDB
Rick Prum - EEB
Lynne Regan - MB&B
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Collaborators at other institutions
Ward Lopes - Williams College
Orion Weiner - UCSF
Eric Furst - U. Delaware
Anne Grillet - Sandia National Labs
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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