Faculty
The Brandeis MRSEC is composed of faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate students.
MRSEC Primary Participants
Areas of Expertise: Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, biophysics. Also see Baskaran Group.
Area of Expertise: Cellular Organization and Behavior in the Archaea domain of life.
Areas of expertise: Regulation of Protein Phosphatases and the Evolution of Cellular Signaling
Areas of Expertise: Condensed matter theory, especially systems far from equilibrium; glassy dynamics in supercooled liquids; granular media and the jamming of granular flows; modeling the dynamical instability in microtubules.
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.
Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids, soft condensed matter, biological physics, active matter, physics of multicellular tissues.
Areas of expertise: scientific computing, fluid dynamics, and mathematical biology
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.
Areas of Expertise: Cell biology and biochemistry of the cytoskeleton.
Areas of Expertise: Soft matter theory; self-assembly in soft matter and polymers; filamentous matter; geometrically-frustrated assembly; hierarchical block copolymer ordering.
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.
Areas of Expertise: Organic synthesis of dynamic molecules and polymers for creating interactive material systems. Solid-state application of soft materials for energy conversion, storage, and optoelectronics. Functionalization of 2D materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.) using organic and inorganic synthetic methods.
Areas of Expertise: Mechanics of stimuli-responsive and active soft materials; self-assembly of nanoscale structures in multi-component materials.
Areas of expertise: Computer science, FinTech, machine learning, image processing, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, intelligent education.
Areas of Expertise: Condensed matter theory and quantitative biology; application of condensed matter physics models to problems in molecular and cell biology such as regulation of gene expression and chromosome structure.
Areas of Expertise: Physics of soft matter, molecular and cellular biomechanics, and nonlinear dynamics.
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.
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.
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.
Expertise: De novo protein design; Neurodegenerative diseases; Peptide chemistry; Supramolecular assembly; Structural Biology
Areas of Expertise: Tissue mechanics, biological physics
MRSEC Primary International Participants
Areas of Expertise: Biomolecular nanotechnology.
Secondary Participants
Areas of Expertise: Cellular biophysics; identification and physical characterization of new biomimetic materials.
Area of Expertise: Development of optical microscopy techniques to research fundamental nanocrystal properties in device relevant environments.
A National Science Foundation sponsored Material Research Science and Engineering Center
