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 in the Biophysical Modeling Group. Previously, Farhadifar was a postdoctoral researcher in experimental and theoretical biophysics at Harvard University.

Gilles Francfort joined the Flatiron Institute in January 2023 as a research scientist in the Center for Computational Biology.

Taeyoon Kim is an associate professor in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University.

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

Suryanarayana Maddu joined the Center for Computational Biology’s Biophysical Modeling Group in March 2022.

Henry Mattingly joined the Flatiron Institute in August 2022 as an associate research scientist.

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

Laurel is a National Science Foundation postdoc at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, and a guest researcher at the Center for Computational Biology at Flatiron Institute.

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…

Jane Wang is a Professor of Physics and MAE at Cornell University, currently a visiting scholar at CCB.

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.