Welcome

Andrej Košmrlj

I am an associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a member of the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials at Princeton University.

My research interests are in Mechanics, Soft Matter and Biological Physics:

  • Statistical mechanics of thin structures
  • Mechanics in morphogenesis
  • Phase separation in multicomponent systems
  • Mechanical metamaterials
  • Soft robotics

See the Research section for more details.

Short Biography:

From 2011 to 2015, I was a postdoc with David R. Nelson at Harvard University. In 2011, I received a Ph.D. in Physics at MIT, where I was co-advised by Arup K. Chakraborty and Mehran Kardar. Before coming to MIT, I obtained a B. Sc. (2006) in Mathematical Physics from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, under the supervision of Primož Ziherl.

Click here for my CV.

News

[November 2023] Lauren Dreier was awarded an APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award.
[May 2023] Bez Lemma was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB).
[May 2023] Sijie Tong successfully defended his PhD thesis.
[February 2023] Mohamed El Hedi Bahri successfully defended his PhD thesis.
[February 2023] Samhita Banavar, Andrej Košmrlj, Celeste Nelson, and Jared Toettcher have co-organized the Biophysics of Organoids Workshop at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. OrganoidsWorkshop2023
[December 2022] PT Brun, Emily Davidson, Andrej Košmrlj, and Glaucio Paulino have co-organized the Physics of Morphing Matter Workshop at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. MorphingMatterWorkshop2022
[May 2022] Sydney Hsu has been awarded the Sigma Xi Book Award.
[January 2022] Check out the spotlights about Navreeta Singh and Polina Zhilkina.
[January 2022] PT Brun, Sujit Datta, Emily Davidson, and Andrej Košmrlj have co-organized the 16th Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Workshop.
[September 2021] Abby Plummer has been selected among the Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter.
[August 2021] Celeste Nelson, Jared Toettcher, and Andrej Košmrlj have been awarded a grant from the NSF Reproducible Cells and Organoids via Directed-Differentiation Encoding (RECODE) program.
[July 2021] Matt Heinrich and Siddhartha Sarkar successfully defended their PhD theses.
[May-June 2021] Markus Deserno, Rumiana Dimova, Andrej Košmrlj, and Carlos Marques have co-organized the KITP program The Physics of Elastic Films: from Biological Membranes to Extreme Mechanics.
[May 2021] Milena Chakraverti-Wuerthwein won the Hertz Fellowship Award.
[March 2021] Milena Chakraverti-Wuerthwein won the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award.
[January 2021] Check the news story about our collaborative NSF Future Manufacturing grant that is lead by Shu Yang (UPenn).
[December 2020] Read the story that features Matt Heinrich's work on creating innovative protections for hospital staff.
[November 2020] Andrej Košmrlj organized Slovenian-American Virtual Academic Symposium. The recorded video is available here.
[September 2020] Tejas Dethe was awarded the Summerfield Second Year Fellowship.
[September 2020] Andrej Košmrlj's team lead by Shu Yang (UPenn) was awarded an NSF Future Manufacturing grant.
[August 2020] Andrej Košmrlj gave a talk at the Biological Physics/Physical Biology Virtual Seminars. The recorded video is available here.
[June 2020] Andrej Košmrlj lectured at The Physics of Life Online Summer School. The recorded video is available here.
[June 2020] Read the spotlight about Matt Heinrich's work on fabricating personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[June 2020] Jeff Morris, Carlos Colosqui, German Drazer, Andrej Košmrlj and Yuan-Nan Young have co-organized the 13th Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Workshop.
[June 2020] Jessica Fan was awarded the Enoch J. Durbine Prize for Engineering Inovation and the PRISM Senior Thesis Award.
[May 2020] Andrej Košmrlj developed a tutorial on using FEniCS for solving PDEs for the KITP program Symmetry, Thermodynamics and Topology in Active Matter. The recorded video is available here and tutorial materials are available in the GitHub repository.
[June 2019] Celeste Nelson, Andrej Košmrlj, and Jared Toettcher have been awarded a grant from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.
[June 2019] Bartosz Kaczmarski won the first prize for Morgan W. McKinzie ’93 Senior Thesis Prize and he was the co-winner of the Sau-Hai Lam *58 Prize in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
[June 2019] Lydon Kersting was awarded the Enoch J. Durbine Prize for Engineering Inovation.
[May 2019] Sheng Mao has won the Best Poster Prize at the Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM’19) conference held jointly with the 11th Northeastern Complex Fluids and Soft Matter (NCS) workshop.
[May 2019] Andrej Košmrlj has been awarded the Alfred Rheinstein Faculty Award from the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied ScienceAlfred_Rheinstein_Award
[March 2019] Matt Heinrich has been awarded the Shirley Chan Student Travel Grant from the Division of Biological Physics (DBIO) in the American Physical SocietyMattHeinrich_APSDBIOTravelAward2019
[February 2019] Andrej Košmrlj has been awarded the Project X Innovation Research Grant from the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science.
[January 2019] Ian Bourg, Sujit Datta, and Andrej Košmrlj have co-organized the Transport in Disordered Environments Workshop at the Princeton Center for Theoretical SciencePCTSWorkshop2019
[December 2018] Team of Princeton MAE undergraduates (co-advised by Andrej Košmrlj) has advanced to the second stage of the NASA Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT) challenge. Read more about their project in the news story.
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[March 2018] Sheng Mao was among the finalists for the Postdoctoral Speaker Award presented by the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (GSNP) in the American Physical Society.ShengMao_GSNP_Award
[February 2018] Andrej Košmrlj was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award for the School of Engineering and Applied Science.SEASTeachingAward2018
[February 2018] Andrej Košmrlj, Celeste Nelson, Stas Shvartsman and Lisa Manning have co-organized the Mechanics in Morphogenesis Workshop at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. MorphogenesisWorkshop2018
[December 2017] Team of Princeton MAE undergraduates (co-advised by Andrej Košmrlj) has advanced to the finals of the NASA Big Idea Challenge competition. Check out their HORUS project on youtube.
HorusTeam
[December 2017] Andrej Košmrlj received the NSF CAREER Award
[September 2017] Sijie Tong wins the Summerfield Second Year Fellowship.
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[June 2017] Cecilia Stoner wins the Outstanding Leadership Award in Materials and the second prize Donald J. Dike Award for Excellence in Undergraduate ResearchCeciliaStoner_LeadershipAwardCeciliaStoner_DikeAward
[May 2017] Andrej Košmrlj and Howard A. Stone have co-organized the 7th Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter WorkshopNCS7