We are a highly interdisciplinary research team with interests in the field of soft matter. Examples of soft matter include colloidal suspensions, polymer solutions, foams, granular materials, and biological materials. These materials are "soft" in the sense that they are deformed by thermal or mechanical stresses that are comparable to thermal fluctuations at room temperature.

We implement the tools of microfluidics, microscopy, high-speed imaging, and quantitative image analysis to experimentally study problems that lie at the interface of low-Reynolds numbers fluid mechanics, biophysics, and environmental science.

Our approach spans orders of magnitude in length, from single molecules to single cells to the environment, and time. We use observations in controlled fluid environments in combination with quantitative image analysis to understand physical mechanisms and chemical processes that we use to build mathematical models and predictive frameworks.

See below for a sample of ongoing and open projects in the lab.