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Graduate Students

Cuncheng

Cuncheng Zhu

Ph.D. Candidate (co-advised with Prof. Chern)

Email: cuzhu [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Interfacial active fluid dynamics
Previous institution: UCSD


Tanumoy

Tanumoy Dhar

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: tdhar [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Transport of active suspensions in complex media
Previous institution: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India


Yuzhu

Yuzhu Chen

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: yuc034 [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Modeling and simulations of cell spreading and locomotion
Previous institution: Fudan University, Shanghai, China


Nick

Nicholas Broussinos

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: nbroussinos [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Interfacial active fluid dynamics
Previous institution: UCSB


Yuchen

Yuchen Hou

M.S. Candidate

Email: yuh113 [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Machine learning for active fluid dynamics
Previous institution: Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China


Recent News

April 2026: The paper "Hydrodynamic theory of euchromatin and heterochromatin" by Rautu, Zidovska, Saintillan and Shelley appeared in Physical Review X. Click here to download the article.

March 2026: The paper "The hydrodynamic torque dipole from rotary bacterial flagella powers symmetric discs" by Grober, Dhar, Saintillan and Palacci appeared in Nature Physics. Click here to download the article.

November 2024: The Saintillan Research Group attended the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in Houston, TX.

August 2025: The paper "Stability of co-annular active and passive confined fluids" by Dhar, Shelley and Saintillan appeared in Physical Review Fluids, where it is featured as an Editor's Selection. Click here to download the article.

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