Our group maintains long-term collaborative relationships with major national laboratories and international research centers, including Brookhaven National Laboratory (National Synchrotron Light Source II, NSLS-II), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Spallation Neutron Source, SNS; High Flux Isotope Reactor, HFIR; Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, CNMS; Shull-Wollan Center, SWC), and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).
These partnerships significantly extend our local experimental capabilities by providing access to state-of-the-art X-ray and neutron scattering facilities, advanced spectroscopic tools, and specialized instrumentation that are not available in a typical university laboratory. Through these collaborations, we integrate in-house experiments with large-scale user facilities to probe structure, dynamics, and electromechanical behavior across multiple length and time scales.
Our collaborative model enables rapid translation between theory/simulation, tabletop experiments, and national user facilities, fostering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of soft condensed matter physics, biophysics, and neuroscience. It also provides students and postdoctoral researchers with hands-on experience working at leading scientific facilities worldwide.