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Matthew J. Hancock, Ph.D.
Microfluidics Expert, Consultant | MIT PhD, ACE
Partner at Veryst Engineering, LLC
hancock (at) alum.mit.edu
Research Interests
Fluid Mechanics in Medicine, Materials Science, and Biology. I integrate mechanics-based theoretical tools including scaling arguments, analytic techniques and numerical simulations to develop models, methods and devices for cross-disciplinary problems at the intersection of medicine, materials science, biomedical engineering, and biology. Topics include: microfluidic devices for point-of-care diagnostics, biomaterial synthesis and patterning; self-assembly applied to bottom up tissue engineering; bioinspired directional textured surfaces with applications to droplet pathways for digital microfluidic devices.
Experience & Skills
Mathematical modeling and simulation of complex systems, partial differential equations, microfluidics, solid-fluid interaction, wave propagation, multiple scales and singular perturbations, mass transport, numerical analysis. Integration of theory and experimental observations to achieve accurate predictions of physical phenomena. MATLAB, COMSOL Multiphysics, Surface Evolver, Mathematica, Excel
Background
B. Math (1998), M. Math (1999), University of Waterloo
Ph.D. Environmental Fluid Dynamics (2005), MIT
Instructor in Applied Mathematics (2004-2008), MIT
Research Fellow, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (2008-2011)
Research Fellow, Dept. of Engineering Sciences and Mechanics, Penn State (2011-2012)
Visiting Scientist, Technology Labs, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (2012-2013)
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