Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Physics, Applied Physics & Graduate Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

Yale University

https://jamming.research.yale.edu/people.html

SOFT MATTER RESEARCH 

In the soft matter area, we focus on understanding glass and jamming transitions in granular materials, dense colloidal suspensions, foams, and model systems, in which the structural and stress relaxation times diverge (in the absence of crystallization) when various control parameters such as temperature, density, and applied stress are tuned. We employ a combination of theoretical (master-equation approaches and statistical mechanics) and computational (molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations) techniques to understand fundamental aspects of glass and jamming transitions.

BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS RESEARCH

My research effort in biological physics also employs both theoretical and computational approaches, including statistical mechanics descriptions and coarse-grained and atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, to study important biological problems ranging from determining the mechanical properties of skin cancer cells to understanding protein misfolding and aggregation.  All of the projects described here involve close collaborations with biologists.