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. 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
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Achini Opathalage
Project: Protein Crystallization and Active Matter
Educational background: Physics
Email: oatr7140@brandeis.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Mohamed Amine Gharbi
Project: Active Matter
Educational background: Physics
Email: magharbi@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
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Yanlin Li
Project: Microfabrication
Period: Fall 2015 - present
Educational background: Physics
Email: yanlinli@brandeis.edu
Youssef Fahmy
Project: Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
Period: Fall 2017 - present
Educational background: Physics
Email: yfahmy98@brandeis.edu
Amanda Chisholm
Project: Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
Period: Fall 2016 - present
Educational background: Physics
Email: achisholm@brandeis.edu
Blake Langesley
Project: Active Matter
Period: Fall 2017 - present
Educational background: Physics
Email: blake42@brandeis.edu
RECENTLY GRADUATED STUDENTS
- Dr. Camille Girabawe (July 2011 - April 2017)
- Dr. Achini Opathalage (June 2011 - 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
- Rhiannon Flynn, Undergraduate student (Summer 2017)
- Anne Okrah, 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, Undergraduate student (summer 2015)
- Austin Prince, 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
- Niya Wilkins
- Ethan Chan
- Arda Cam
- Xiaotong geng
- Thomas Litschel
- Markus Ludwig
- Tianshu Liu
- Emily Peck
- Seila Selimovic
- Phil Fei Huang
- Jung Uk Shim
- Kirstin Purdy
- Ujitha Dassanayake
- Zvonimir Dogic
- Marie Adams
- Jay Tang
- San Lin
- Mark Ospeck
- Ariel Hyre
- Adam Ollanik
- Flori Yellin
- Aaron Mowitz
- Korbinian Winkler
- Kyle Harrington