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,…

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.

Naomi Oppenheimer joined the foundation in 2016 as a research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology in the biophysical modeling group. Her research interests are in fluid dynamics, elasticity and the interplay between them.

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.

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