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Our Group
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Dr. Eric R. Dufresne
Eric was an Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Materials Science at Yale, and is now the Professor of Soft and Living Materials in the Department of Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
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Dr. Rostislav
Boltyanskiy
Ross defended his Physics at Yale in 2015. He is a 2009 graduate of
the University of Chicago and is studying the mechanics of living
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Dr. Katharine Jensen
Kate grew up in New England and studied physics at
Princeton (A.B.) and Harvard (Ph.D). She is co-advised with Jan
Schroers. She is studying the deformation of amorphous materials. |
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Dr. Kathryn Rosowski
Katie defended her
Ph.D. in MCD biology at Yale in 2015.
Before coming to Yale, Katie studied physics at Cornell and worked at
the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Katie is studying the mechanics of living cells. |
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Dr. Qin Xu
Qin defended his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Chicago in 2015. Qin is studying the mechanics of soft materials. |
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Raphael Sarfati
Raphael is a Ph.D. student in applied physics. He comes from Paris,
where he graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique. He is currently
studying the interactions of colloidal particles with lipid membranes..
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Niveditha Samudrala
Nivi
is a Ph.D. student in chemical
engineering. She is from South India and earned her bachelors in
chemical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal in
2011. Prior to Yale, she conducted research indhard condensed matter
physics at TU Munich and TIFR India. Currently, she studies phase
transitions in colloids and self assembly of nanoparticles at
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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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| Prof. Holger Kress
(spring 2007 - spring 2010) - now at
University of Bayreuth |
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| Dr. Jingyu Park - now are Harvard |
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| Prof. Chris MacMinn - now at Oxford |
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| Prof. Robert Style - now at Oxford | |
| Dr. Aric Sanders -
now at NIST Boulder |
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| Dr. Sara Hashmi -
now at Yale Chemical Engineering |
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| Dr. Jason W.
Merrill - now at Desmos, Inc. |
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| Dr. Alla
Shundrovsky (fall 2007 - summer 2010) |
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| Dr. JinGyu Park
(fall 2007 - fall 2010) - now at
Harvard University |
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| Prof. Guy German
(spring 2010 - fall 2012) - now at
Binghamton University |
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| Dr. Jason Forster
-now at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
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| Dr. Ye Xu - now at
University of Pennsylvania |
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| Dr. Cecile Mejean
- now at St. Gobain |
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| Dr. Aaron Mertz - now at Rockefeller University | |
| Dr. Callen Hyland - now at UCSD | |
| 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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| Elizabeth Jerison
'10 (spring 2008 - spring 2010) - now
at Harvard Physics |
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| Alexandra
Beautyman '12 (summer 2009 - spring
2010) |
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| Henry Foote '12
(spring 2010 - summer 2011) - now at
Duke |
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| Lamtharn "Hanoi"
Hantrakul '15 (summer 2012) |
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| Yonglu Che '13 (summer 2009- spring 2013) - now at Stanford |
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| Madeline Popelka '14 - now at Epic | |
| Ariel Ekblaw '14 - now at Microsoft | |
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Our Colleagues
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Some of our Collaborators
at Yale
Soft
Matter & Complex
Fluids
Hui Cao - Applied Physics
Douglas
Stone - Applied Physics
John Wettlaufer - Geophysics
Raymond and
Beverly
Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Paul Forscher - MCDB
Valerie Horsley - MCDB
Rick Prum - EEB
Lynne
Regan - MB&B
Linda Bockenstedt - Rheumatology & Internal Medicine
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Collaborators at
other institutions
Ward
Lopes
- Williams College
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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