Principal Investigator
Prof. Seth Fraden
Professor of Physics
Email: fraden@brandeis.edu
Phone: (781) 736-2888
Fax: (781) 736-2915
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. John Berezney
Project: Active Matter
Educational background: Materials Science
Email: berezney@brandeis.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Nesrin Şenbil
Project: Active Matter
Educational background: Physics
Email: senbil@brandeis.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Baptiste Blanc
Project: Synthesizing Belousov–Zhabotinsky actuated hydrogels
Educational background: Physics
Email: bblanc@brandeis.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Michael M. Norton
Project: Modeling B-Z actuated hydrogel mechanics and Active Matter
Educational background: Mechanical Engineering
Email: mmnorton@brandeis.edu
GRADUATE STUDENTS
PhD Candidate
Maria Eleni (Marilena) Moustaka
Project: Belousov–Zhabotinsky nonlinear reactions
Educational background: Physics
Email: mmoustak@brandeis.edu
PhD Candidate
Ian Hunter
Project: Pattern formation in complex networks of non-linear coupled oscillators
Educational background: Physics
Email: ianmhunter@brandeis.edu
PhD Candidate
S. Ali Aghvami
Project: Multiphase microfluidics
Educational background: Physics
Email: aghvami@brandeis.edu
PhD Candidate
Zahra Zarei
Project: Active nematics
Educational background: Physics
Email: zahrazarei@brandeis.edu
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Johnson Agyapong
Project: Chemomechanics
Period: Fall 2017 - present
Educational background: Biology
Email: johnsonna16@brandeis.edu
Ruoshi Li
Project: Machine Learning of Active Matter
Period: Fall 2017 - present
Educational background: CoSci / Physics
Email: ruoshiliu@brandeis.edu
Chris Simonetti
Project: Chemomechanics
Period: Fall 2017 - present
Educational background: Math / Physics
Email: csimonetti@brandeis.edu
Fox Baudelaire
Project: Chemomechanics
Period: Spring 2017 - present
Educational background: Biological physics
Email: baudelaire@brandeis.edu
RECENTLY GRADUATED STUDENTS
Dr. Camille Girabawe (July 2011 - April 2017)
Dr. Achini Opathalage (June 2010 - October 2015)
Dr. Nate Tompkins (May 2010 - May 2015)
Dr. Ning Li (May 2009 - February 2015)
Dr. Sathish Akella (June 2008 - August 2013)
Dr. Michael Heymann (June 2008 - August 2013)
Dr. Rafael A. Cabanas (December 2008 - August 2013)
LAB ALUMNI
Yanlin Li, Undergraduate student (2016 - 2018)
Youssef Fahmy, Undergraduate student (2016 - 2018)
Amanda Chisholm, Undergraduate student (2016 - 2017)
Blake Langesley, Undergraduate student (2016 - 2018)
Dr. Mohamed Amine Gharbi, Postdoc (2016 - 2017)
Dr. Achini Opathalage, Grad student and postdoc (2010 - 2017)
Rhiannon Flynn, UNC Wilmington, Undergraduate student (Summer 2017)
Anne Okrah, Hampton Undergraduate student (Summer 2017)
Dr. Nate Tompkins, Graduate student and Postdoctoral research fellow (May 2010 - July 2017)
Matt Cambria, Undergraduate student (January 2013 - May 2015)
Adam Wang, Undergraduate student (June 2013 - May 2015)
Jacob Gold, Undergraduate student (June 2013 - May 2015)
Chris Hong, Undergraduate student (May 2014 - May 2015)
Dr. Dongshin Kim, Director of Microfluidics (January 2009 - February 2015)
Dr. Ye Zhang, Postdoctoral fellow (2011 - 2014)
Alex Mitchell, Undergraduate student (spring 2016 - May 2017)
Remi Boros, Undergraduate student (fall 2015 - May 2017)
Johnson Agyapong, Undergraduate student (fall 2016 - May 2017)
Vardges Tserunyan, Undergraduate student (fall 2015 - May 2017)
Jesse Held, Undergraduate student (fall 2015 - May 2017)
Anna Kolstad, Princeton Undergraduate student (summer 2015)
Austin Prince, Florida Undergraduate student (summer 2015)
Dr. Evelyn Panagakou, Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Hector Octavio Gonzalez Ochoa, Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Frederic Gobeaux, Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Viatcheslav Berejnov, Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Eric Grelet, Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Emmanuel Belamie, Postdoctoral fellow
Susan Okrah, Hampton undergrad
Niya Wilkins, Hampton undergrad
Ethan Chan, undergrad
Arda Cam, undergrad
Xiaotong Geng, undergrad
Thomas Litschel, masters student
Markus Ludwig, masters student
Tianshu Liu, grad student
Emily Peck, grad student
Seila Selimovic, grad student
Phil Fei Huang, grad student
Jung Uk Shim, grad student
Kirstin Purdy, grad student
Ujitha Dassanayake, grad student
Zvonimir Dogic, undergrad, grad student
Marie Adams, grad student
Jay Tang, grad student
San Lin, grad student
Mark Ospeck, grad student
Ariel Hyre, undergrad
Adam Ollanik, undergrad
Flori Yellin, undergrad
Aaron Mowitz, undergrad
Korbinian Winkler, visitor
Kyle Harrington, grad student