Group Members
Learn more about our group members below
Past alumni can be found here
Principal Investigator
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Group Program Assistant
Tiffany Zhang
Research Associate Professor
Felipe Jimenez-Angeles
Polyelectrolyte interfacesPostdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Leticia Lopez-Flores
Complex electolytes
Dr. Ahis Shrestha
Continuum membrane models
Dr. Vipin Agrawal
Membranes and Vesicles
Dr. Yao Xiong
Covalent adaptable networks and elasticity
Dr. Chuting Deng
Soft materials
Dr. Sergi G. Leyva
Graduate Students
Hector Manuel Lopez de la Cerda Rios
PhD 2023, Active matter
Han Umana Kossio
PhD 2024, Protein-like polymers for therapeutics (Co-advised with Prof. Nathan Gianneschi)
Yang Li
PhD 2025, Self-assembly (Co-advised with Prof. Evan Scott)
Zehao Song
PhD 2025, Soft robotic materials
Nicholas Pogharian
PhD 2026, Electric fields in soft materials
Brandon Onusaitis
PhD 2027, Iontronics
Antara Sen
PhD 2027, Soft robotics
Matthew Farnese
PhD 2027, Active matter
Annie Gomez
PhD 2027, Bacterial microcompartments (Co-advised with Prof. Danielle Tullman-Ercek)
Sullivan Fitz
PhD 2027, Membranes
Isaac Smith
PhD 2027, Iontronics
Eden Taddese
PhD 2027, Tau protein aggregation (Co-advised with Prof. Songi Han)Undergraduate Intern
