Executive Committee
![Aparna Baskaran](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/baskaran-aparna.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, biophysics. Also see Baskaran Group.
![Guillaume Duclos](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/duclos-guillaume.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids, soft condensed matter, biological physics, active matter, physics of multicellular tissues.
![Seth Fraden](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/fraden-seth.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids; interparticle interactions and phase transitions in colloidal suspensions; entropy driven disorder-to-order transitions; physics of protein crystallization and the development of microfluidic-based, high-throughout crystallization devices.
![Greg Grason](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/grason.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Soft matter theory; self-assembly in soft matter and polymers; filamentous matter; geometrically-frustrated assembly; hierarchical block copolymer ordering.
![W. Benjamin Rogers](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/rogers-william-benjamin.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids and biological physics; programmable self-assembly of soft materials; colloidal interactions and phase transitions; DNA nanotechnology; self-organization of active matter; optical trapping and single-molecule science.
![Zvonimir Dogic](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/dogic-zvonimir.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids and biological physics; understanding and controlling the self-assembly of matter on a colloidal length scale; assembly, phase transitions and dynamics of colloidal systems under nonequilibrium conditions.
![Michael Hagan](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/hagan-michael.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Application of statistical mechanics, modern computational techniques, and theory to problems in biology and condensed matter physics; assembly of viral capsids and other large protein complexes; pattern formation in collections of internally driven particles; effects of molecular chirality on large-scale structure.
![Avital Rodal faculty image](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/rodal-2.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Neuronal membrane traffic and synapse morphology; dissection of multi-protein machines that drive lipid deformation at intracellular compartments; endosomal membrane traffic in neurons.
![Bing Xu, Brandeis University faculty member](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/xu-bing1.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Materials chemistry; biomaterials; polymer chemistry and surface chemistry; synthesis and fabrication of functional molecular nanomaterials; new molecular materials and nanomaterials for exploration in biomedicine (e.g., molecular drug delivery, cancer therapy, biomedical diagnostics and biomimetics) and other fundamental problems in nanoscience and biological science.
![Anahita Zare, PhD](../images/people/staff/zare-anahita.jpg)
![Demetris Geddis](../images/people/secondary-participants/geddis_demetris.jpg)