Principal Investigator

  • Prof. Alfredo Alexander-Katz
    Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
    Directer of Program in Polymers and Soft Matter
  • Email: aalexand@mit.edu
  • Background: B.S. Physics, UNAM (Mexico),1998
    Ph.D. Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2004

Postdocs
  • Dr. Guillermo A. Hernandez-Mendoza
    Postdoctoral Associate in the department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Email: gahme@mit.edu
  • Background: Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. in Engineering UNAM (Mexico)
  • Research: Self-Assembly Block Copolymer.

Graduate Students
  • Emily Krucker-Velasquez
    Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, PPSM, co-advised by Prof. Martin Z. Bazant
  • Email: ekrucker@mit.edu
  • Background: B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Guadalajara
  • Research: Development of fast computational tools to study the dynamic and structural properties of electrostatically stabilized colloidal suspensions, concentrated electrolytes, and polyelectrolytes.
  • Tianyi Jin
    PhD Candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering, co-advised with Connor Coley
  • Email: herryjin@mit.edu
  • Background: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, additional major in Mathematics from University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Research: Molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning to model polymer and protein interactions
  • Molly C. Warndorf
    PhD Candidate in the Department of Chemistry, co-advised by Prof. Timothy Swager
  • Email: warndorf@mit.edu
  • Background: B.S. in Chemistry, University of Delaware
  • Research: Molecular dynamics simulations and synthesis of porous polymers
  • Artem Petrov
    PhD Candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering, PPSM, co-advised by Prof. Gregory Rutledge
  • Email: aipetrov@mit.edu
  • Background: M.S. and B.S. in Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • Research: Molecular dynamics simulations of block-copolymer self-assembly

Alumni

Graduate Students
  • Jacob I. Sass

    • Current Affiliation: MIT ChemE

  • Dr. Shayna L. Hilburg

    • Current Affiliation: ASEE Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington

  • Dr. Hejin Huang

    • Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Genentech

  • Dr. Karim Raafat Gadelrab

    • Current Affiliation: Bosch Technology USA

  • Dr. Yi Ding

    • Current Affiliation: Lam Research

  • Dr. Joshua Steimel

    • Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor at Califonia State Polytechnic University

  • Dr. Reid Van Lehn

    • Current Affiliation: Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin Madison

  • Dr. Pierre C Dromel

    • Current Affiliation: CEO & Founder at InGel Therapeutics

  • Dr. Emiko Zumbro

    • Current Affiliation: Senior Materials Scientist at MITRE

  • Dr. Mukarram A Tahir

    • Current Affiliation: Amazon Cloud

  • Dr. YongJoo Kim

    • Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor at Korea University

  • Dr. Charles E. Sing

    • Current Affiliation: Associate Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Dr. Hsieh Chen

    • Current Affiliation: Aramco Services Company

  • Dr. Ricardo Pablo Pedro

    • Current Affiliation: Apple Inc.

    Postdocs
  • Dr. Zhen Cao

    • Current Affiliation: Palo Alto Networks

  • Dr. Juan Luis Aragones Gomez

    • Current Affiliation: Principal investigator at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

  • Dr. Roozbeh Dargazany

    • Current Affiliation: Associate Professor at Michigan State University

  • Dr. Shahrzad Yazdi

    • Current Affiliation: Exponent Inc

  • Dr. Jiaqi Lin

    • Current Affiliation: Full Professor at Dalian University of Technology