Current Members

William Irvine

Professor of Physics

Contact Information:

Website and CV
Office: GCIS E127
Phone: (773) 819-5668
Email: wtmirvine

Martin Falk

Post Doctoral Researcher

Machine Learning, Active Matter

Joint with Arvind Murugan

Contact Information:

Office: GCIS E224
Phone: (773)-702-0413
Email: falkma

Yehuda Ganan

Graduate Researcher

Chiral Fluids, Colloidal Systems

Contact Information:

Office: GCIS E027
Phone: (773)-702-0413
Email: yehugan

Matteo Sabato

Graduate Researcher

Turbulence, Self-Assembly

Contact Information:

Office: GCIS E027
Phone: (773)-702-0413
Email: msabato

Desmond Li

Graduate Researcher

Turbulence, Self-Assembly

Contact Information:

Office: GCIS E031
Phone: (773)-702-0413
Email: desmondli

Panyu Chen

Graduate Researcher

Active matter, chiral fluids

Contact Information:

Office: GCIS E031
Phone: (773)-702-0413
Email: panyuchen42

Hubert Gao

Graduate Researcher

Harvesting turbulence

Contact Information:

Office: GCIS E027
Phone: (773)-702-0413
Email: dqgao

Glasha Osipycheva

Active matter, Intermediate Reynolds flow

2021-2023

Contact Information:

Office: GCIS E031
Phone: (773)-702-0413
Email: jiyaeno

Catherine No

Undergraduate Researcher

Active matter, Intermediate Reynolds flow

Contact Information:

Office: GCIS E031
Phone: (773)-702-0413
Email: jiyaeno

Mick Kaibni

Undergraduate Researcher

Surface waves

Contact Information:

Office: GCIS E031
Phone: (773)-702-0413
Email: mkaibni

Adam Oppenheimer

Undergraduate Researcher

Intermediate Reynolds flow

Contact Information:

Office: GCIS E031
Phone: (773)-702-0413
Email: aoppenheimer

Lab Alumni

Robert Morton

Graduate Researcher

Vortex Dynamics

Went on to:

Consultant at Ollion

Takumi Matsuzawa

PhD Student

Turbulence

Summer 2017 - Summer 2023

Went on to:

Post Doc at Cornell

Ephraim Bililign

PhD Student

Chiral Fluids, Colloidal Systems, Turbulence

Fall 2017 - Spring 2023

Went on to:

Data Scientist at KPMG

Severine Atis

Post Doctoral Researcher

Active Matter

Spring 2019 - Winter 2021

Went on to:

Post Doc at University of Chicago

Vishal Soni

PhD Student

Order in Frustrated Crystals, Colloidal Systems

Summer 2011 - Spring 2019

Went on to:

Associate Data Scientist at BCBSIL

Noah P. Mitchell

PhD Student

Fracture Mechanics, Topological Metamaterials, Turbulence

Fall 2012 - Fall 2018

Went on to:

Post Doc at KITP, UC Santa Barbara

Jiayi Wu

Master Student

Dynamical Systems

Fall 2015 - Spring 2018

Went on to:

PhD Student at University of Chicago

Sofia Magikiriadou

Post Doctoral Researcher

Dynamical Systems, Colloidal Systems

Spring 2015 - Spring 2018

Went on to:

Post Doc at EPFL

Lisa Nash

PhD Student

Dynamical Systems

Summer 2013 - Summer 2017

Went on to:

Data Scientist at IDEO

Stéphane Perrard

Post Doctoral Researcher

Vortex Mechanics

Summer 2015 - Summer 2017

Went on to:

Post Doc at École Polytechnique

Martin Scheeler

PhD Student

Classical Vortex Systems

Summer 2012 - Summer 2017

Went on to:

Consultant at BCG

Hridesh Kedia

PhD Student

Knots in Light, Superfluids

Summer 2012 - Summer 2017

Went on to:

Post Doc at MIT

Dustin Kleckner

Post Doctoral Researcher

Vortex Dynamics

Fall 2011 - Spring 2015

Went on to:

Faculty at UC Merced

Melissa Fender

PhD Student

Fracture in 2D

Summer 2011 - Summer 2013

Went on to:

PhD Student at Wake Forest

Former Undergraduate Researchers

Hugh Cairney

Harvesting turbulence

2022-2024

Went on to:

Grad student at MIT

Konrad Koenigsmann

Chaos, Double Gyropendulum

2022-2023

Went on to:

Grad student at UVA

Jessica Metzger

Fluid dynamics ML, Odd viscous flow

2020-2022

Went on to:

Grad student at MIT

Bennet Sessa

Self Assembly

2019-2020

Went on to:

Grad student at Brandeis

Sattvic Ray


Active Matter

Summer 2016 - Spring 2019

Went on to:

Grad Student at UCSB

Seth Musser

Vortex Nucleation

Summer 2015 - Summer 2017

Went on to:

Grad Student at MIT

Sophie Ettinger

Superfluid Vortex Knots

Summer 2015 - Summer 2016

Went on to:

Grad Student at UPenn

Watee Srinin

Nonlinear Waves

Fall 2011 - Spring 2013

Went on to:

Grad Student at NYU

Jing Miao

Vortex Dynamics

Winter 2012 - Spring 2012

Jahan Claes

Interferometry

Fall 2012 - Winter 2012

Former Summer REUs

Shiv Agrawal

Self Assembly

Summer 2020

Went on to:

Undergraduate at UChicago

Claudia Yao

Active Matter

Summer 2019

Went on to:

Undergraduate at UChicago

Diego Matamoros

Dynamical Systems

Summer 2019

Went on to:

Undergraduate at UChicago

JingYang Zheng

Fracture Mechanics

Summer 2016

Went on to:

Grad Student at Cornell

Joseph Mittelstaedt

Vortex Instabilities

Summer 2015

Went on to:

Grad Student at Cornell

Rebecca Fishman

Superfluid Vortex Nucleation

Summer 2015

Went on to:

Grad Student at UPenn

Alismari Read

Dynamical Systems

Summer 2014

Went on to:

Grad Student at UPenn

Akaxia Cruz

Interferometry

Summer 2013

Went on to:

Grad Student at UC Berkeley

Eric Cho

Vortex Dynamics

Summer 2012

Marcos Mendoza

Fracture in 2D

Summer 2012

Went on to:

Grad Student at UC Merced

Eric Green

Fracture in 2D

Summer 2011