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Former members of the group

PhD students

At Brown:

  1. Paul Salipante, PhD 2013 (Engineering)  “Electrohydrodynamics of simple and complex interfaces”
  2. Hui (April) He, PhD 2014 (Physics) “Electrorotation of a viscous droplet in a uniform direct current electric field”

At Northwestern:

  1. Gerardo Pradillo, PhD 2020 (Mechanical Engineering) “Quincke rotors dynamics in confinement”
  2. Cody Reeves, PhD 2020 (Applied Mathematics) “Mathematical Models for Several Soft and Active Matter Systems”
  3. Hammad A. Faizi, PhD 2022 (Mechanical Engineering) “Mechanical Characterization of Biomimetic Membranes Based on Fluctuation Spectroscopy and Electrodeformation”,  awarded Belytschko Outstanding Research Award 
Post-docs

At Dartmouth:

  1. James Hanna, 2009 (surfactant effects on drop dynamics in Poiseuille flow)

At Brown:

  1. Jacopo Seiwert, 10/2010-03/2012 (membrane stability, tension induced phase transitions in biomimetic membranes
  2. Tatiana Kuriabova 09/2011- 08/2013 (mechanics of charged membranes)
  3. Malika Ouriemi 01/2013-03/2014(electrohydrodynamics of complex interfaces)
  4. Enkeleida Lushi 09/2013 – 08/2016 (rheology of active suspensions)
  5. Nico Fricke 02/2014- 07/2015(electromechanics of bilayer membranes)
  6. Nicolas Galle, 11/2014- 04/2017 (vesicles and capsule mechanics)
  7. Quentin Brosseau, 10/2014- 10/ 2016 (microfluidics of drops, electrohydrodynamics)

At Northwestern University

  1. Jeremy Koch, 09/2017- 08/2019(electrohydrodynamics)
  2. Hamid Karani, 01/2018- 04/2020 (active matter)
  3. Gasper Kokot, 01/2019-01/2020 (active matter) joint with Argonne National Lab through NAISE
  4. Bhavya Balu, 09/2021-03/2022 (electrokinetics)
  5. Bo Zhang, 10/01/2022-07/2023 (active matter) joint with Argonne National Lab through NAISE
  6. Rodrigo Reboucas, 09/01/2021-08/14/2023 (membranes)