Research+Profiles

toc **Members:** Please place your sketch in alphabetical order by last name. (Use the **//Heading 3//**, not **boldface**, setting for the line with your name on it.)

Chase Broedersz
is currently at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in the group of Fred MacKintosh. I am interested in the mechanics and dynamics of both intracellular and extracellular biopolymers and their networks. You can find more information here.

Jean Carlson
is a member of the Department of Physics at UCSB carrying out research on a variety of [|complex systems].

Nicolas Clauvelin
is a postdoc in the [|group of Wilma K. Olson] at the BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University. My current [|research interests] are: chromatin fiber (geometry, dynamics, long-distance communciation), DNA topology (topology of bubbles and 4-way junctions), thermal fluctuations and elastic rods, [|numerical simulations of (visco-)elastic rods].

Ralf Everaers
is a professor of Physics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, member of the Physics lab and the director of the Centre Blaise Pascal of Computational Science. Research interests are in the field of Computational Physics of Soft and Biological matter: polymer dynamics and topological interactions, polyelectrolytes, DNA, RNA, chromatin and chromosome structure and dynamics.

Franco Ferrari
is a professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of Szczecin (PL) and a member of the Polish astrobiology center CASA*. Current research topics are: Polymers and biopolymers in theoretical physics, structure/stability of proteins and cosmic rays in astrobiology.

Deborah K. Fygenson
is a member of the Department of Physics at UCSB carrying out experiments on a variety of biomaterial systems.

Ajay Gopinathan
is an Assistant Professor affiliated with both Physics and Quantitative Systems Biology at the University of California, Merced. Research spans a variety of topics in theoretical biophysics, soft matter and the interface between the two - topics include - structure and function of disordered proteins, transport through the nuclear pore complex, molecular motor driven intracellular transport, cytoskeletal network dynamics, biopolymer aggregates, chemotaxis and more recently bacterial cell shape and mechanics. [|Group website here]

Rony Granek
is an associate professor at the [|Dept. of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel]. He is also affiliated with [|the Reimund Stadler Minerva Center] for Mesoscale Macromolecular Engineering, and [|the Ilse Katz Institute] for Meso and Nanoscale Science and Technology. His main background is soft matter physics. His current research interests include protein dynamics and stability with focus on fractal-like properties, active transport in cells and model systems, and dynamics of membranes and semi-flexible polymers.

Alexander Grosberg
is a Professor of Physics and member of [|Center for Soft Matter Research] at New York University working on theoretical physics of polymers, biopolymers, and a variety of soft matter and biophysics topics

Mehran Kardar
is a Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His expertise is statistical physics (theory) with applications to Website is [|http://www.mit.edu/~kardar/]
 * //Soft Matter and Statistical Physics:// Non-equilibrium phenomena, anomalous transport, disordered systems, polymers.
 * //Fluctuation-Induced Phenomena:// Casimir forces, electromagnetic fluctuations in and out of equilibrium.
 * //Biologically Physics:// Cortical patterns, knots in proteins, immune response.

Anatoly Kolomeisky
is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University, Houston, TX. My research is in the area of Statistical Mechanics, Theoretical Biophyscs and Theoretical Physical Chemistry. My group website is [|http://python.rice.edu/~kolomeisky/]

Alexei A. Kornyshev
is a Professor of Chemical Physics at Imperial College London (University of Science, Technology, and Medicine). His current research interests focus on: (i) DNA biophysics; (ii)·Optofluidics and nonoplasmonics; (iii) Molecular electronics and machines; (iv) Ionic liquids and their applications; read more on his group website http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/kornyshev/ or on the official Imperial College website http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.kornyshev

Oliver Lieleg
is currently a postdoc/instructor at MIT (Department of Biological Engineering) working with Katharina Ribbeck. I am interested in biological hydrogels, mainly in their viscoelastic properties and the regulation of particle diffusion in the gels. Please find details on my research [|here].

Ludvig Lizana
is a postdoc at the [|Center for Soft Matter Research] at New York University. I am generally interested in theoretical questions in biophysics. A few running projects are diffusive dynamics in crowded systems, protein aggregation and its relation to Parkinson's disease, evolution of metabolic networks, spatial dynamics of information spreading under discrimination, and electrophoretic motion of colloidal particles. Please see [|my website] for more details.

Dmitrii E Makarov
is at Chemistry and Biochemistry Department and Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. I am interested in theory an computer simulations of biomolecules. Current projects in my group are concerned with protein translocation, single molecules subjected to mechanical forces, dynamics of proteins in the unfolded state, physics of surface attached molecules, and interpretation of single-molecule experiments.

Carlos Marques
is a [|CNRS] Senior Scientist at the [|Institut Charles Sadron] in Strasbourg, he also teaches Physics Master courses at the [|Université de Strasbourg]. [|Carlos group]is devoted to theoretical and experimental work on the Physics of Soft Condensed Matter with emphasis on self-assembled phospholipid bilayers; vesicles, liposomes and supported membranes; structure, characterization and control of Soft Matter by microforce techniques. Carlos sees its participation in the KITP program Biological Frontiers of Polymer and Soft Matter Physics as a twofold opportunity for : reporting and discussing with other program participants experimental results from Carlos group on the interactions between phospholipid bilayers and DNA molecules that pose a number of theoretical challenges; expanding the group scope by engaging in the theoretical understanding of bio-inspired Soft Matter questions.

Tom McLeish
is Professor of Soft Matter Physics at Durham University, UK, working there in the Biophysical Sciences Institute []. I am interested in protein dynamics and its role in signalling and allostery, the statistical mechanics of evolutionary landscapes, and structural encoding of information in biopolymers, especially within the nucleus for pluripotency.

Roland Netz
is Professor at the Free University Berlin. I am interested in effects that are related to water at interfaces such as: dielectric spectroscopy, osmolytes and denaturants, electrically driven nanopumps, hydrogen bond friction, hydrophobic effect, hydration repulsion. My group web page at TU Munich: []

Garegin Papoian
is the Monroe Martin Associate Professor in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park. His uses theoretical and computational approaches to understand mechanisms of protein functional dynamics, chromatin folding, and cell motility. Here is the group web page: @http://papoian.chem.umd.edu/

Yitzhak Rabin
is a Professor of Physics at Bar-Ilan University. I am interested in various DNA-related topics in biophysics and materials science and in various topics in polymer and soft matter physics.

Katharina Ribbeck
is in the Biological Engineering Department at MIT. Her groups studies molecular transport through biological hydrogels such mucus, the extracellular matrix, nuclear pores, and bacterial biofilms. More information is on her website: http://kr-lab.mit.edu/

Ioulia Rouzina
Research Assistant professor at the department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota. She is working as theorist with several experimental labs, including Prof. Mark Williams lab at NorthEastern University, Boston, performing single molecule DNA and RNA stretching. We analyze force-induced structural transitions in nucleic acids, and the effect on these transitions of ligands and proteins, thereby learning equilibrium and kinetic information regarding their interactions. She also works with HIV biophysics lab of Prof. Karin Musier Forsyth at OSU on many problems of retroviral life cycle, including role of Nucleocapsid proteins, viral RNA selection, reverse transcription and viral uncoating.

Michael Rubinstein
is John P. Barker Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Curriculum in Applied Science and Engineering at University of North Carolina, His interests include Soft Matter and Polymer Physics and more recently Biological Physics. Details about current research project can be found at group web page [].

Len Sander
Len Sander is in Physics and Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He works on many aspects of fractal growth, computations of rare events, and physical problems associated with the spread of cancer, in particular, the interaction of migrating cells with the microenvironment of tumors.

Helmut Schiessel
is a professor of Physics at the Lorentz Institute at Leiden University. I am interested in DNA and its compaction inside chromatin, single molecule experiments and charged soft matter. See also our group page.

Paul van der Schoot
is with the Theory of Polymers and Soft Matter Group at Eindhoven University of Technology and with the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University, both in The Netherlands. I apply statistical mechanical theory to soft and biomatter problems, and take a special interest in liquid crystals, supramolecular polymers, continuum percolation in dispersions of anisotropic particles, virus assembly and dense protein systems.

Mark Stevens
is a staff member at Sandia National Laboratories and at the [|Center for Integrated Nanosciences]. His interests include charged soft matter, lipid bilayers, assembly of microtubules. He is involved with the development of the [|LAMMPS] molecular dynamics code.

Yann von Hansen
is a PhD student in the group of Roland Netz at the Technical University of Munich. My research interests are theoretical questions in Soft Matter and Biophysics including single chain polymer dynamics, conformational dynamics of short peptides/proteins, single-molecule experiments (see virtual poster), molecular dynamics, and low Reynold's number hydrodynamics.

Christoph Weber
is a member of the group of[| Prof.Frey in Munich], LMU. His interests include kinetic theory for active matter and agent-based modeling of driven systems. His aim is to understand the microscopic origin of several systems that show collective motion. Current systems of interest are the [|actin-gliding assay at high densities] and [|vibrated disk-shaped granules].