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David Stein, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, Center for Computational Biology

Email
[email protected]
Website
users.flatironinstitute.org/~dstein

Bio

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 complicated geometries. Stein comes to the foundation from the University of California, Davis, where he earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics.

Publications

Traveling Waves Enhance Transport during Cytoplasmic Streaming in Drosophila Oogenesis

arxiv:2609.26656, September 22, 2026

O. Jain, D. Stein, R. Farhadifar, Elizabeth R. Gavis, S. Shvartsman, and M. Shelley

A stabilized finite element formulation for simulating ordered arrays of immersed flexible fibers with applications in cellular mechanics

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, April 1, 2026

S. Varchanis and D. Stein

A fully adaptive, high-order, fast Poisson solver for complex two-dimensional geometries

arxiv:2501.17967, 2025

D. Fortunato, D. Stein, and A. Barnett

Computational tools for cellular scale biophysics

Current Opinion in Cell Biology, August 1, 2024

D. Stein and M. Shelley

Featuring David Stein

Digital illustration of mathematics to figure out how giant whirlpools form in developing egg cells.

Mathematics Explains How Giant Whirlpools Form in Developing Egg Cells

3 panel image of particles assembling into a disk

Unexpected Forces Cause Rotor Proteins To Self-Organize

Events

Brown Bag Seminar

Lecture

October 13, 2020

1:15–2:30 p.m. ET

Speaker

David Stein

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