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Principal Investigator

Prof. Kerstin Nordstrom

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Lori McCabe

Project: Flow of Photoelastic Disks
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Lab Members

Giselle Dencker

Major/Class Year: Environmental Science/Physics 2025
Project: Heterogeneous Dynamics in Granular Flows
Other interests:

Zeyu Zhao

Major/Class Year: Physics 2027
Project: Granular Flow with Asymmetric Obstacles
Other interests: Photography, travel

Shanen Rose Arellano

Major/Class Year: Physics/2025 (December)
Project: Contact Mechanics of Photoelastic Disks
Other interests: skateboarding, making camp fires, hugging animals

Lab Alums

Sasha Toole

Major/Class Year: Physics/2024
Project: Microfluidic Modeling of Glymphatic System
Other interests: Dance!
Currently: Physics PhD student at Brandeis

Ama Abrokwa

Major/Class Year: Computer Science/Physics 2026
Project: Network Analysis of Granular Media
Other interests: Photography, Singing and dancing

Abigail Tadlock

Major/Class Year: Physics and Astronomy/2023
Project: Gravity-driven flow in varying gravity (Honors thesis)
Other interests: Knitting, hiking, and baking
Currently: Entering astrophysics PhD program in 2023 (Boston U)

Latika Joshi

Major/Class Year: Physics and Astronomy/2025
Project: Particle Flow in Varying Gravity (Simulations)
Other interests: Swimming, Hiking, Playing Piano
Currently: applying to grad schools

Anna Maria Moran

Major/Class Year: Physics/2023
Project: Robotic actuators with (granular) MR fluid (Honors thesis)
Other interests: Traveling, roller skating, and reading
Currently: Entering engineering PhD program in 2023 (Boston U)

Lucy Sternberg

Major/Class Year: Physics and Computer Science/2023
Project: Active Granular Robots
Other interests: MHC Track and Field!!!
Currently: Engineering PhD program at Boston U

Elliott Candela

Major/Class Year: Astronomy/2024
Project: Flow of Photoelastic Disks
Other interests: Horseback riding, Dungeons and Dragons, and art

Sulagna Saha

Major/Class Year: Computer Science/2025
Project: Active Granular Robots
Other interests: Love to teach, play badminton and see fireflies!

Jiayi Wang

Major/Class Year: Physics & Philosophy/ 2024
Project: Active Granular Robots
Other Interests: singing, traveling, writing
Currently: transferred to Barnard :/

Annissa Aamoum

Major/Class Year: Physics and Biology/2022
Project: Active Granular Robots
Other interests: Tennis
Currently: Research technician at Northwestern University

Charlotte Young

Major/Class Year: Physics 2022
Project: Confocal Tracking of Microfluidic Flows
Currently: Applying to Geophysics/Marine Physics graduate school

Nina Gilkyson

Major/Class Year: Physics/2022
Project: Flow of Photoelastic Particles
Other interests: Baking, hiking, and photography
Currently: PhD program @ Brown

Casey Roepke

Major/Class Year: Physics and Politics / 2021
Project: Granular Flow with an Obstacle
Other interests: Rowing, public policy, radio, and rereading YA literature
Current Position: Science Policy Fellow at Science and Technology Policy Institute

Linda Zhang

Major/Class Year: Physics and English/2020
Project: lntersection of Physics Identity and Asian Identity
Other interests: Poetry, cello, and taekwondo
Currently: Working at charter school in Boston, thinking about grad school

Keelin Quirk

Major/Class Year: Physics/2020
Project: Microfluidic Model of Glymphatic System (Honors Thesis)
Other interests: music, rock climbing, and baking.
Current Position: PhD student in Mech Engineering at Univ of Rochester

Juniper Glass-Klaiber

Major/Class Year: Physics/2021
Project: Flow of Photoelastic Particles
Other interests: Violin, kayaking, hiking, and art
Current Position: PhD student (entering F23)

Anna Belle Harada

Major/Class Year: Physics/2018
Project: Gravity-Driven Flow of Crystalline Packings
Other interests: Ice hockey, traveling, and snowboarding
Current Position: Researcher on the Technology Advantage team at the Boston Consulting Group

Kiera McCabe

Major/Class Year: Computer Science/2019
Project: Impact into Shear-Thickening Fluid
Other interests: Fencing, audio, skiing and snowshoeing, student government
Current Position:

Lilliana Beckman

Major/Class Year: Physics/2018 (fall graduation)
Project: Hydrodynamic Assembly of Colloids
Other interests: Playing rugby, Dungeons and Dragons, Video Games, Aikido
Current Position:

Tamia Williams

Major/Class Year: Physics and Theater/2018
Project: Physics Identity and Performing Arts for Black Physicists (Honors Thesis)
Current Position: Physics Teacher, Bronx High School of Science

Emma Thackray

Major/Class Year: Physics and Math/2018
Project: Gravity-Driven Flow of Soft Bidisperse Disks (Honors Thesis)
Other interests: Skiing, sports, cooking/baking, art/design
Current position: PhD student in Applied Math at NC State

Grace Cai

Major/Class Year: Physics and Economics/2018
Project: LAMMPS MD Simulations of Granular Flows (Honors Thesis)
Other interests: Bowling, reptiles, jigsaw puzzles, reading short stories
Current position: PhD Student in Applied Physics at U of Michigan

Nikita Waskiewicz

First confocal experiments in Spring 2019
Graduated early in Fall 2020

Haley Lucian

Major/Class Year: Biology/2017
Project: Collective Behavior of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Currently: Research assistant at Stanford (clinical research on heart failure), applying to medical school in 2018

Isabelle Kim

Major/Class Year: Neuroscience/2018
Project: Extensional Flow of Cells (Microfluidic Stretcher)

Phoebe Seltzer

Major/Class Year: Biochemistry/2018
Project: Culturing Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Pa Chia Thao

Major/Class Year: Physics and Astronomy/2017 (fall graduation)
Project: Creating Martian Avalanches in the Lab
Currently: Research intern (white dwarfs in binary systems) at Gemini Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii

Puyang Ma

Major/Class Year: Physics/2018
Project: Fabrication of Microfluidic Channels; Emulsions
Currently: accepted to Computational Biology PhD programs and choosing one!

Ariel Kane-Esrig

Major/Class Year: Physics (Hampshire)/2020
Project: Tracking Robot Swarms
Currently:

Alistaire Ruggiero

Major/Class Year: Post-Bacc
Project: Microfluidics
Currently: Wake Forest University, working on PhD in molecular and cellular biosciences

Julia Knox

Major/Class Year: Post-Bacc
Project: Imaging Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Currently: Research Assistant at Columbia University (environmental health epigenetics, computational epigenomics, and mitochondriomics)

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