Biophysical Modeling

Michael Shelley joined the Simons Foundation in 2016 to work on the modeling and simulation of complex systems arising in physics and biology.

Florencio Balboa Usabiaga joined the foundation in 2017 as a member of the Biophysical Modeling group. He is interested in the development of tools for fluctuating hydrodynamics and Brownian dynamics simulations. At the foundation, he works to extend these methods to explore relevant biophysical phenomena,…

Brato Chakrabarti joined the Center for Computational Biology’s Biophysical Modeling Group in March 2020.

XinXin Du joined the Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute in August, 2019.

Reza Farhadifar joined the foundation in 2017 as a research scientist reporting to Michael Shelley in the Biophysical Modeling Group. Previously, Farhadifar was a postdoctoral researcher in experimental and theoretical biophysics at Harvard University.

Sebastian Fürthauer joined the Center for Computational Biology in June 2016. Fürthauer is interested in the physics of cellular scale processes, such as cell division and cell motility and their role in developmental biology.

Leroy Jia joined the Biophysical Modeling group in the Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute in October, 2018.

Gokberk Kabacaoglu joined the foundation in 2019 as a joint member of Center for Computational Biology and Center for Computational Mathematics.

Alex Mogilner, Ph.D. is professor of Math and Biology at the Courant Institute and Department of Biology at New York University. Prof. Mogilner received M.Eng. degree in Engineering Physics in 1985 from the Ural Polytechnic Institute.

Yoichiro Mori is an applied mathematician working in mathematical biophysics/physiology, and applied/numerical analysis

Ehssan Nazockdast is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physical Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The Needleman laboratory investigates how the cooperative behaviors of molecules give rise to the architecture and dynamics of self-organizing subcellular structures.

Aleks Plochocka joined the foundation in 2019 as a joint member of Center for Computational Biology and Center for Computational Mathematics. Aleks earned her Ph.D. in mathematics at the Maxwell Institute Graduate School in Analysis & its Applications joint between the University of Edinburgh and…

Alex Rautu joined the foundation in 2020 as a member of the Biophysical Modeling group. His research focuses on theoretical problems in soft matter and biology, and particularly on the biophysics of cellular processes.

David Saintillan is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego. He received a B.S. in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, France, in 2001, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 and 2006.

David Stein joined the foundation in 2016 as a Flatiron research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology in the biophysical modeling group. His research interests are in the dynamics of complex fluids and fluid suspensions, and in numerical methods for studying these fluids in…

Wen Yan joined the Simons Foundation in 2016 as part of CCB’s biophysical modeling group. His research focuses on the development and simulation of mathematical models pertaining to phenomena in biophysics and active materials and the development of simulations of suspensions of such active objects.

Yuan-Nan Young is a professor in applied math at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Currently he has been working on flows in a deformable poroelastic medium, and active fluids enclosed by a deformable interface in the Center for Computational Biology’s Biophysical Modeling group.