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.

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.

Adam Lamson joined the Simons Foundation in 2020 as part of CCB’s biophysical modeling group.

Daniel Needleman joined the Center for Computational Biology as a Senior Research Scientist in September 2020.

Michael joined the Biophysical Modeling group in the Center for Computational Biology in June 2020.

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 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.