Executive Committee

Aparna Baskaran
Aparna Baskaran
PI & IRG2
Professor of Physics • Brandeis University
781-736-2866 Abelson 306

Areas of Expertise: Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, biophysics. Also see Baskaran Group.

Guillaume Duclos
Guillaume Duclos
IRG2
Assistant Professor of Physics • Brandeis University
Abelson 222

Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids, soft condensed matter, biological physics, active matter, physics of multicellular tissues.

Seth Fraden
Seth Fraden
IRG1, IRG2
Professor of Physics • Brandeis University
781-736-2888 Abelson 214

Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids; interparticle interactions and phase transitions in colloidal suspensions; entropy driven disorder-to-order transitions; physics of protein crystallization and the development of microfluidic-based, high-throughout crystallization devices.

Layne Frechette
Layne Frechette
Postdoctoral Fellow • Hagan Lab
IRG2
Greg Grason
Greg Grason
IRG1
Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering • UMass Amherst

Areas of Expertise: Soft matter theory; self-assembly in soft matter and polymers; filamentous matter; geometrically-frustrated assembly; hierarchical block copolymer ordering.

W. Benjamin Rogers
W. Benjamin Rogers
IRG1 Co-Leader
Assistant Professor of Physics • Brandeis University
781-736-2857 Abelson 221

Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids and biological physics; programmable self-assembly of soft materials; colloidal interactions and phase transitions; DNA nanotechnology; self-organization of active matter; optical trapping and single-molecule science.

Zvonimir Dogic
Zvonimir Dogic
IRG2
UCSB, Research Associate Professor of physics • Brandeis University

Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids and biological physics; understanding and controlling the self-assembly of matter on a colloidal length scale; assembly, phase transitions and dynamics of colloidal systems under nonequilibrium conditions.

Michael Hagan
Michael Hagan
IRG1 Co-Leader, IRG2
Professor of Physics and of Quantitative Biology • Brandeis University
781-736-2845 Abelson 350

Areas of Expertise: Application of statistical mechanics, modern computational techniques, and theory to problems in biology and condensed matter physics; assembly of viral capsids and other large protein complexes; pattern formation in collections of internally driven particles; effects of molecular chirality on large-scale structure.

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Avital Rodal
IRG1
Professor of Biology • Brandeis University
781-736-2459 Rosenstiel 528

Areas of Expertise: Neuronal membrane traffic and synapse morphology; dissection of multi-protein machines that drive lipid deformation at intracellular compartments; endosomal membrane traffic in neurons.

Bing Xu, Brandeis University faculty member
Bing Xu
IRG1
Professor of Chemistry • Brandeis University
781-736-5201 Edison-Lecks 320

Areas of Expertise: Materials chemistry; biomaterials; polymer chemistry and surface chemistry; synthesis and fabrication of functional molecular nanomaterials; new molecular materials and nanomaterials for exploration in biomedicine (e.g., molecular drug delivery, cancer therapy, biomedical diagnostics and biomimetics) and other fundamental problems in nanoscience and biological science.

Anahita Zare, PhD
Anahita Zare, PhD
Director of Education, Outreach and Diversity
Abelson 216
Demetris Geddis
Demetris Geddis
PREM
Associate Professor, Assistant Dean and Dept. Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hampton University