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

Molly C. Warndorf

Molly C. Warndorf

PhD Candidate, Chemistry

Background: B.S. in Chemistry, University of Delaware

Research: Molecular dynamics simulations and synthesis of porous polymers

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. Tianyi Jin

Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech

Dr. Emily Krucker-Velasquez

Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University

Jacob I. Sass

MIT ChemE

Dr. Shayna L. Hilburg

ASEE Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington

Dr. Hejin Huang

Postdoctoral Fellow, Genentech

Dr. Karim Raafat Gadelrab

Bosch Technology USA

Dr. Yi Ding

Lam Research

Dr. Joshua Steimel

Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University

Dr. Reid Van Lehn

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison

Dr. Pierre C Dromel

CEO & Founder, InGel Therapeutics

Dr. Emiko Zumbro

Senior Materials Scientist, MITRE

Dr. Mukarram A Tahir

Amazon Cloud

Dr. YongJoo Kim

Assistant 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

Palo Alto Networks

Dr. Juan Luis Aragones Gomez

Principal Investigator, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Dr. Roozbeh Dargazany

Associate Professor, Michigan State University

Dr. Shahrzad Yazdi

Exponent Inc

Dr. Jiaqi Lin

Full Professor, Dalian University of Technology

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