Open positions

GRADUATE: We are looking for physics graduate students to work on an NIH-funded research project to discover whether lipid and membrane protein transport contributes to blood flow sensing by endothelial cells. This project is a collaboration with the Thevenin lab in Chemistry. Students will use video microscopy, Matlab or Python image analysis, and microfluidics to measure protein transport and find evidence for signaling.

UNDERGRADUATE: Lehigh and non-Lehigh undergraduates are welcome to join us through the Lehigh Physics REU program (note: the program is officially on hiatus for 2023, but please contact Aurelia if you are interested). Lehigh undergraduates can do research in the Honerkamp-Smith lab as a Physics elective; we also participate in the Lehigh STEM-SI program.

For 2023-2025, students interested in an international research experience during the summer should consider applying to the Iaccoca International Internship Program; undergraduate and graduate students can spend the summer learning biophysics research techniques at the CNRS in Bordeaux, France as a partnership between the Iaccoca program and an NSF-funded IRES grant.