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Jeff Aristoff
(Post-doc)
Office: G02 E-Quad (Princeton)
Email: aristoff[at]princeton.edu
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My research interests include free-surface flows and surface tension-related phenomena, such as solid-liquid impacts, bubble dynamics, and hydraulic jumps. I am also interested in problems that involve the coupling of fluid flow and elastic structures, especially those arising in biology and engineering more generally, and bioengineering in particular. |
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Nicolas Autrusson
(Visiting student)
Office: G02 E-Quad (Princeton)
Email: nautruss[at]princeton.edu |
My research interests lie in the distortion of a flexible streamer in a shearing flow. I am currently working on the theory but I am also interested in conducting numerical simulations since I have a Master degree on CFD from Imperial College London and Supaero. |
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Anand Bala Subramaniam
(Graduate student)
Office: McKay 509 (Harvard)
Email: balasubr[at]fas.harvard.edu
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Previous work:
Microfluidic method for producing particle-covered bubbles.
Origins of stabilization of particle-covered bubbles.
Surfactant effects on particle-stabilized interfaces.
Current work:
Particles on interfaces as a precursor to novel materials
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Jacy Bird
(Graduate student)
Office: Pierce 301 (Harvard)
Email: jbird[at]fas.harvard.edu
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My dissertation research is on capillary dynamics. Specifically, I investigate how drops coalesce, spread, bounce, and splash. I also study how thin films, such as bubbles, rupture - a phenomenon that has implications from the coarsening of foams to oceanic gas-transfer. |
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Alison Forsyth
(Graduate student)
Office: G02 E-Quad (Princeton)
Email: aforsyth[at]princeton.edu
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My dissertation work encompasses two main research areas. The first involves studying the dynamical behaviour of red blood cells in microfluidics. I Observe different RBC motions such as tank-treading, tumbling, or translating and correlate these motions with functional ATP release in an effort to better understand the physiological significance of such phenomena. My second project involves studying the killing efficacy of biocide agents on biofilms, and the associated kinetics using microfluidic coflow experiments. I am also a project manager and graduate student mentor for the Harvard College chapter of Engineers Without Boarders, which has a manual well drilling project in the Dominican Republic. |
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Laura Guglielmini
(Post-doc)
Office: G02 E-Quad (Princeton)
Email: lgugliel[at]princeton.edu
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Douglas Holmes
(Post-doc)
Office: G02 E-Quad (Princeton)
Email: dpholmes@princeton.edu
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My research focuses on elastic stability of soft materials. I'm interested in using elasticity and instabilities such as snap-buckling, crumpling, wrinkling, and folding to generate responsiveness and impact properties such as adhesion, optics, and flow at surfaces or in devices. |
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Pilnam Kim
(Post-doc)
Office: G02 E-Quad (Princeton)
Email: pilnamk[at]princeton.edu |
I am interested in the study of fluidic phenomena in systems of nanoscale dimensions involving nanopores, nanofluidic channel, and biological structured system. I am also interested in small scale transport in a liquid film and interfaces as occur in many practical and physical models. |
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Sigolene Lecuyer
(Post-doc)
Office: McKay 509 (Harvard)
Email: slecuyer[at]seas.harvard.edu
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I am using model systems (vesicles, supported lipid bilayers) to study protein-membrane interactions in vitro, with a particular focus on the influence of membrane geometry on protein localization. My current work also includes the use of microfluidics to study bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation. |
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Matthieu Roche
(Post-doc)
Office: G02 E-Quad (Princeton)
Email: matthieu[at]princeton.edu |
I am interested in processes at liquid/liquid and gas/liquid interfaces. I am focusing on how surfactants (SDS,...) and polymers (PVA, PEO,...) may influence the behavior of these interfaces. This is relevant to understanding how to obtain emulsions, or to improve the stability of foams. |
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Roberto Rusconi
(Post-doc)
Office: McKay 509 (Harvard)
Email: rusconi[at]seas.harvard.edu
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My current research concerns particle transport in microfluidic devices, such as shear-induced diffusion of disk-like colloids or hydrodynamic effects on cell adhesion |
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Scott Tsai
(Graduate student)
Office: G02 E-Quad (Princeton)
Email: scottt[at]princeton.edu
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My current research is on the numerical and analytical modeling of flow in a micromagnetic-microfluidic blood cleansing device. Prior to this, I have also studied the dynamics of droplet splashing onto solid surfaces, where I was interested in the splashing threshold of impact onto inclined and moving surfaces with respect to various droplet and environment parameters. |
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Jiandi Wan
(Post-doc)
Office: G02 E-Quad (Princeton)
Email: jiandiw[at]princeton.edu
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Multiphase flows at the microscales, including microfluidic applications in complex fluids, biofluids, diffusion-reaction enzymatic kinetics and porous particles. |
