Former Group Members

My group studies how topological and geometrical constraints give rise to patterns of spatial self-organization in soft matter and living systems, including liquid crystals, colloidal crystals, active matter, and biological population evolution.

I'm currently an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. My group works on a broad range of soft matter and biophysics topics, including spatial population genetics, structure and dynamics of lipid membranes and bacterial cells, and...

Jayson is an assistant professor in Physics at the University of Oregon. His research group investigates nonequilibrium collective phenomena in models of active metamaterials and evolving populations.

Dr. Severine Atis is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago working with Prof. William Irvine’s group. Her research focuses on self-organization in out-of-equilibrium systems and active fluids. She received her PhD from Sorbonne University in...

My research interests are broadly in statistical mechanics, condensed matter and biophysics. My current work focuses on various aspects of active matter including phase separation, topological phenomena and tissue morphogenesis, along with questions of...

Grace is interested in the statistical physics of condensed matter and biological systems. She is currently studying material defects and biological networks. 

Paul Hanakata is currently a postdoctoral fellow. He received his PhD from Boston University where he studied the mechanical and electronic properties of 2D materials beyond graphene using density functional theory, molecular dynamics, machine learning...

Abigail is currently a postdoc at Princeton. As a graduate student, she studied membrane impurities and population genetics.