Principal Investigator
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Group Program Assistant
Tiffany Zhang
Research Associate Professor
Felipe Jimenez-Angeles
Polyelectrolyte interfaces
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Jianshe Xia
Polymer coarse grained models
Dr. Leticia Lopez-Flores
Complex electrolytes
Dr. Ahis Shrestha
Continuum membrane models
Dr. Turash Haque Pial
Polyelectrolytes assembly and ionics
Dr. Yao Xiong
Covalent adaptable networks and elasticity
Dr. Aaveg Aggarwal
Active matter
Dr. Chuting Deng
Dr. Vipin Agrawal
Membranes and Vesicles
Graduate Students
Ali Ehlen
PhD 2022, Charged proteins and assembly
Hector Manuel Lopez de la Cerda Rios
PhD 2023, Active matter
Dingwen Qian
PhD 2023, Dynamics in dielectric confinement
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
Annie Gomez
PhD 2027, Bacterial microcompartments (Co-advised with Prof. Danielle Tullman-Ercek)
Brandon Onusaitis
PhD 2027, Iontronics
Matthew Farnese
PhD 2027, Active matter
Antara Sen
PhD 2027, Soft robotics
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
Tomomi Kawaguchi
Solvent extraction