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Brato

Brato Chakrabarti

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: bchakrab [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Viscous dynamics of semiflexible polymers and active microfilaments
Previous institution: Virginia Tech, VA


Achal

Achal Mahajan

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: acmahaja [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Project: Active polymer hydrodynamics and physical modeling of chromatin
Previous institution: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India


Mohammadhossein

Mohammadhossein Firouznia

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: mfirouzn [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Project: Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in liquid-liquid systems
Previous institution: Ohio University, Athens, OH


Recent News

June 2020: The paper "Trapping, gliding, vaulting: Transport of semiflexible polymers in periodic post arrays" by Chakrabarti. Gaillard and Saintillan appeared in Soft Matter. Click here to download the article.

May 2020: Congratulations to Can Yang for successfully defending his M.S. Thesis entitled "Diffusion of run-and-tumble microswimmers in porous media"!

April 2020: The paper "Flexible filaments buckle into helicoidal shapes in strong compressional flows" by Chakrabarti et al. appeared in Nature Physics. Click here to access the article.

February 2020: Prof. Saintillan was an invited speaker at the Workshop on Microswimmers and Soft Robotics at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

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