Principal Investigator

Prof. Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Prof. Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Director of Program in Polymers and Soft Matter

Background: B.S. Physics, UNAM (Mexico), 1998 | Ph.D. Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2004

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Guillermo A. Hernandez-Mendoza

Dr. Guillermo A. Hernandez-Mendoza

Postdoctoral Associate

Background: Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. in Engineering UNAM (Mexico)

Research: Self-Assembly Block Copolymer

Graduate Students

Artem Petrov

Artem Petrov

PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering

Background: M.S. and B.S. in Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research: Molecular dynamics simulations of block-copolymer self-assembly

Hamza Coban

Hamza Coban

PhD Candidate, Physics

Background: M.S. and B.S. in Physics, Koc University (Turkey)

Research: Phase Transition in Biomolecular Condensates

Ian S. Chen

Ian S. Chen

PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering

Background: B.S. in Materials Science and Computer Science, MIT

Research: Machine learning and inverse design of block copolymers

Karim Al Zahabi

Karim Al Zahabi

PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering

Background: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago

Research: Probing peptide-protein interactions with molecular dynamics

Yuqian Chen

Yuqian Chen

PhD Student, Chemistry

Background: B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Research: Hydrogel engineering for biomedical applications

Amy Chou

Amy Chou

PhD Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Background: B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and B.S. in Chemistry, Duke University

Research: Molecular dynamics simulations of porous polymers

Alumni

Graduate Students

Dr. Molly Warndorf

Akita Innovations

Dr. Tianyi Jin

Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech

Dr. Emily Krucker-Velasquez

Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University

Jacob I. Sass

MIT Chemical Engineering

Dr. Shayna L. Hilburg

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, NIST

Dr. Hejin Huang

Research Scientist, Biohub

Dr. Karim Raafat Gadelrab

Bosch Technology USA

Dr. Yi Ding

Lam Research

Dr. Joshua Steimel

Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

Dr. Reid Van Lehn

Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison

Dr. Pierre C Dromel

CEO & Founder, InGel Therapeutics

Dr. Emiko Zumbro

Lila Sciences

Dr. Mukarram A Tahir

Amazon Cloud

Dr. Yong-Joo Kim

Associate Professor, Korea University

Dr. Charles E. Sing

Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Hsieh Chen

Aramco Services Company

Dr. Ricardo Pablo Pedro

Apple Inc.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Zhen Cao

Google Cloud

Dr. Juan Luis Aragones Gomez

Principal Investigator, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Dr. Roozbeh Dargazany

Associate Professor, Michigan State University

Dr. Shahrzad Yazdi

Takeda Oncology

Dr. Jiaqi Lin

Full Professor, Dalian University of Technology

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