LBI Group Members
2016 LBI Members
Group Leader
Niels Holten-Andersen
Doherty Professor in Ocean Utilization, DMSE, MIT, 2014-Current
John Chipman Assistant Professor, DMSE, MIT, 2012-2014
Associate Professor, Program in Polymers and Soft Matter, MIT, 2012-Current
Post-Doc, University of Chicago, 2008-2012
Ph.D. Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2008
M.Sc. Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2001
B.Sc.Hon. Molecular Biology, University of Canterbury, 2000
B.Sc. Biology, University of Copenhagen, 1998
Research Interests:
Design principles of biological materials; Soft condensed matter; Physical-chemistry of dynamic interfaces
Office: 13-5018
Post-Docs
Bavand Keshavarz
Ph.D. MIT, 2017
M.Sc. University of British Columbia
B.Sc. Sharif University of Technology
Qiaochu Li
Ph.D. MIT, 2018
B.Sc. Peking University, 2012
Research Interests:
Synthesis and design of Dopa-polymers; Interface chemistry between Dopa-polymers and solid surfaces
Graduate Students
Sungjin Kim
M.Sc. KAIST, 2011
B.Sc. KAIST, 2009
Research Interests:
Bio-inspired materials stiffening process, organic-inorganic hybrid networks
Office: 13-5126
Seth Cazzell
B.Sc. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2014
Research Interests:
The role of hydroxide and metal concentration on the mechanical properties of metal coordinated hydrogel
Office: 13-4006
Erica Lai
B.Sc. MIT, 2014
Research Interests:
Interfacial mechanical properties of bio-inspired metal-coordinate coatings
Office: 13-5126
Irina Mahmad Rasid
M.Eng. Imperial College London, 2015
Office: 13-4006
Jake Song
B.Sc. Northwestern University, 2017
Research Interests:
Fundamental understanding of power-law relaxation dynamics in polymer networks for the design of tough and dynamically adaptive soft materials
Office: 13-4006
Eesha Khare
B.Sc. Harvard, 2017
Jet Lem
Undergraduate Students
Shubhanga Balla
Former LBI Members
Carlos Caldera
Alvaro Charlet
Pangkuan Chen
Eleanor Crossley
Felipe de Quesada
Matthew Dodaro
Will Dickson
Shubhanga Balla
Rebecca Gallivan
Scott Grindy
Danielle Herman
Sarah Hopkin
Michael Kessler
Robert Learsch
Caroline Liu
Stephanie Marzen
Abigail Regitsky
Emily Ryan
Olivia Saouaf
Inbar Yamin
Jennie Zheng
Yu Zheng