Faculty
The Brandeis MRSEC is composed of faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate students.
MRSEC Primary Participants
![Aparna Baskaran](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/baskaran-aparna.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, biophysics. Also see Baskaran Group.
![Alexandre Bisson](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/bisson-alexandre.jpg)
Area of Expertise: Cellular Organization and Behavior in the Archaea domain of life.
![Niels Bradshaw](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/bradshaw_niels.jpg)
Areas of expertise: Regulation of Protein Phosphatases and the Evolution of Cellular Signaling
![Bulbul Chakraborty](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/chakraborty-bulbul.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Condensed matter theory, especially systems far from equilibrium; glassy dynamics in supercooled liquids; granular media and the jamming of granular flows; modeling the dynamical instability in microtubules.
![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.
![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.
![Thomas Fai](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/fai-thomas.jpg)
Areas of expertise: scientific computing, fluid dynamics, and mathematical biology
![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.
![Bruce Goode, Biology faculty member, Brandeis University](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/goode-bruce.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Cell biology and biochemistry of the cytoskeleton.
![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.
![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.
![Grace Han, Chemistry faculty member, Brandeis University](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/han-grace.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Organic synthesis of dynamic molecules and polymers for creating interactive material systems. Solid-state application of soft materials for energy conversion, storage, and optoelectronics. Functionalization of 2D materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.) using organic and inorganic synthetic methods.
![Ryan Hayward](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/hayward.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Mechanics of stimuli-responsive and active soft materials; self-assembly of nanoscale structures in multi-component materials.
![Pengyu Hong](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/pengyu-hong.jpg)
Areas of expertise: Computer science, FinTech, machine learning, image processing, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, intelligent education.
![Jané Kondev](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/kondev-jane.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Condensed matter theory and quantitative biology; application of condensed matter physics models to problems in molecular and cell biology such as regulation of gene expression and chromosome structure.
![Thomas Powers](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/powers.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Physics of soft matter, molecular and cellular biomechanics, and nonlinear dynamics.
![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.
![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.
![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.
![Dr. Hannah Yevick](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/yevick-hannah.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Tissue mechanics, biological physics
MRSEC Primary International Participants
![Hendrik Dietz](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/dietz.png)
Areas of Expertise: Biomolecular nanotechnology.
Secondary Participants
![Andreas Bausch](../images/people/secondary-participants/bausch.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Cellular biophysics; identification and physical characterization of new biomimetic materials.
![Jerald Dumas](../images/people/secondary-participants/dumas_jerald.jpg)
![Jonathan Doye](../images/people/secondary-participants/doye-jonathan.jpg)
![Demetris Geddis](../images/people/secondary-participants/geddis_demetris.jpg)
![Kesete Ghebreyessus](uncategorized-pic/placeholder.jpg)
![Tijana Ivanovic](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/ivanovic-tijana.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Fundamental molecular mechanisms of virus translocation across biological membranes: enveloped virus membrane fusion and non-enveloped virus membrane penetration; single-virion real-time imaging of viral processes, molecular virology, computer simulations.
![Christian Santangelo](../images/people/primary-faculty-participants/santangelo.jpg)
Areas of Expertise: Soft condensed matter theory.
![Katherine Shulenberger](../images/people/secondary-participants/shulenberger-katherine.jpg)
Area of Expertise: Development of optical microscopy techniques to research fundamental nanocrystal properties in device relevant environments.
![Placeholder picture for Mark](uncategorized-pic/placeholder.jpg)
![Hyunjun Yang](../images/people/secondary-participants/hyunjun-yang.jpg)
Area of Expertise: De novo Protein Design and Supramolecular Assemblies