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
Vanessa V-Gutierrez
Research Associate Professor
Felipe Jimenez-Angeles
Polyelectrolyte interfacesResearch Associate
Leticia Lopez-Flores
Complex electrolytesVisiting Professor
Vikram Jadhao
Postdoctoral Fellows
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
Active matter and living crystals
Dr. Behzad Mehrafrooz
Biophysics and iontronics
Dr. Emily Krucker-Velasquez
Iontronics and MicrofluidsGraduate Students
Han Umana Kossio
PhD 2025, Protein-like polymers for therapeutics (Co-advised with Prof. Nathan Gianneschi)
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 2028, Membranes
Isaac Smith
PhD 2028, Iontronics
Eden Taddese
PhD 2027, Tau protein aggregation (Co-advised with Prof. Songi Han)Undergraduate Intern
