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  [### David Nelson

 ](/people/david-nelson) <drnelson@fas.harvard.edu>Professor of Physics and Applied Physics

Arthur K. Solomon Professor of Biophysics

 

 

 David R. Nelson is currently the Arthur K. Solomon Professor of Biophysics and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. He graduated from Cornell University Summa cum laude with a double major in physics and mathematics in 1972, and... 

 

 

      ![Professor David Nelson](/sites/g/files/omnuum6631/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/nelson/files/nelson.png?itok=vvRlsL5V) 

 

 

 

   [### Severine Atis

 ](/people/severine-atis) <severine.atis@gmail.com>Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 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... 

 

 

      ![Atis](/sites/g/files/omnuum6631/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/nelson/files/sev_sept2021.jpg?itok=hciZIKmh) 

 

 

 

   [### Jonathan Bauermann

 ](/people/jonathan-bauermann) <jbauermann@fas.harvard.edu>

 

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   [### Daniel Beller

 ](/people/daniel-beller) <d.a.beller@jhu.edu>Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics &amp; Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

 

 

 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. 

 

 

      ![Beller](/sites/g/files/omnuum6631/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/nelson/files/beller_daniel_180816-1_3-224x300.jpg?itok=5HrJhne-) 

 

 

 

   [### Lara Braverman

 ](/people/lara-braverman) <lbraverman1@g.harvard.edu>

 

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   [### Paul Hanakata

 ](/people/paul-hanakata) [ pah337@g.harvard.edu](<mailto: pah337@g.harvard.edu>)

 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... 

 

 

      ![Hanakata](/sites/g/files/omnuum6631/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/nelson/files/ph_hariri_profile.png?itok=J5Gmipd2) 

 

 

 

   [### Richard Huang

 ](/people/richard-huang)

 Richard is a graduate student in David Nelson's group who is broadly interested in problems in soft matter physics. Currently, he is thinking about the statistical mechanics of thin sheets and membranes. 

 

 

      ![Huang](/sites/g/files/omnuum6631/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/nelson/files/profile.jpg?itok=hwk1fM00) 

 

 

 

   [### Max Lavrentovich

 ](/people/max-lavrentovich) <lavrentm@gmail.com>

 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... 

 

 

      ![Max](/sites/g/files/omnuum6631/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/nelson/files/portraitml_01.jpg?itok=lWA06xbb) 

 

 

 

   [### Cheng Long

 ](/people/cheng-long) <chenglong@fas.harvard.edu>

 

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   [### David Lubensky

 ](/people/david-lubensky) <dkluben@umich.edu>Professor Physics and Biophysics

 

 

 

      ![Lubensky](/sites/g/files/omnuum6631/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/nelson/files/my_photo_um_summer06.jpg?itok=F86FkPDX) 

 

 

 

   [### Jayson Paulose

 ](/people/jayson-paulose) <jpaulose@uoregon.edu>

 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. 

 

 

      ![Paulose](/sites/g/files/omnuum6631/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/nelson/files/jpaulose.jpg?itok=E2ex2FHr) 

 

 

 

   [### Abigail Plummer

 ](/people/abby-plummer) <aplummer@princeton.edu>Postdoctoral Research Fellow

 

 

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

 

 

      ![Plummer](/sites/g/files/omnuum6631/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/nelson/files/abby.jpg?itok=sx9pzR2C) 

 

 

 

  

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