Faculty and Research

STCC faculty members: Joris Taupier and Barbara Washburn are co-PIs on the NSF grant and act as weekly mentors for all REU students.

17 faculty members from the Department of Physics conduct fundamental research in biological and soft materials.

Name				Research Interests
Don Candela		experiment		NMR imaging of granular media
Benny Davidovitch		theory		Thin film mechanics
Tony Dinsmore		experiment		Soft materials, colloids, and membranes
Lori Goldner		experiment		Single molecule imaging of biological complexes
Greg Grason		theory		Physics of fibers and filaments
Jon Machta		theory		Monte Carlo simulations of self-assembled systems
Narayanan Menon		experiment		Thin film mechanics
M. Muthukumar		experiment/theory		Modeling of interacting biomolecules and polymers
Jennifer Ross		experiment		Active matter and self-organization of filaments and motors
Chris Santangelo		theory		Origami and mechanics
Maria Santore		experiment		Designer surfaces and membrane phases
Tigran Sedrakyan		theory
Shubha Tewari		theory		Simulations of granular materials
Mark Tuominen		experiment		Optoelectronic properties of bacterial pili nanofilaments
Chen Wang		experiment		Quantum phenomena in mesoscopic systems
Jun Yan		experiment		Optical and electronic properties of two-dimensional materials