The group collaborates with a wide range of researchers including at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA), Utrecht University (Netherlands), Harvard University (USA), Leipzig University (Germany), Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA). The group is part of the biophysics effort which includes the group of Jaan Mannik at the University of Tennessee (http://www.phys.utk.edu/research/soft-matter.html). We also actively work with the Lavrentovich group at Kent State University on the properties of the newly-discovered ferroelectric nematic materials (https://www.lavrentovichgroup.com/index.html).
Undergraduate Students
Christian Biadasz - Christian is a recent WSU graduate, working on 3D modelling of cancer growth. In collaboration with the Kaes group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, we are trying to understand the impact of tumor geometry on cancer progression and competition between different tumor strains.
We are always looking for undergraduate researchers! Please e-mail Max!
Graduate Students
Mu-Hung Chang - Mu-Hung works on understanding the formation and structure of the bacterial nucleoid and the general organization of the internal components of the bacterial cell. Mu-Hung uses ideas from the physics of polymers and liquid-liquid phase separation to describe the effects of crowding and DNA compaction. Mu-hung works in close collaboration with the Mannik group (http://www.phys.utk.edu/jmannik/LCBHome.html).
Alumni
Dima Bolmatov (2020-2025) - former research assistant professor, and now has a group at Texas Tech University (https://www.depts.ttu.edu/phas/People/Faculty/bio_bolmatov/bio_bolmatov.php)
Guilherme Freire Oliveira (2021-2026) - graduate student who completed a thesis on non-equilibrium pattern formation. Gui developed numerical solvers for noisy, non-linear, coupled PDEs. He demonstrated that a certain set of coupled PDEs describe the behavior of the driven Widom-Rowlinson lattice gas. I co-advised Gui along with this primary advisor, Ronald Dickman, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
Ian McCarthy (2024-2025) - undergraduate researcher working on driven binary mixtures, now a graduate student at UConn.
Aidan Desilets (2024-2025) - undergraduate researcher working on impact of extracellular environment on breast cancer growth.
Ioanna Tchangova (Spring 2024) - undergraduate researcher working on lattice models of cancer
Dominique Odens (Summer 2022) - undergraduate summer research intern. Dominique worked on random walk models for understanding molecular motion within biological membranes. She is now a math teacher at CAK.
Nora Bauer (2018-2023) - graduate student, now graduate student at UTK
Clara Castillo (2018-2021) - graduate student, now at Epic Systems
Adam Bryant (2018-2021) - undergraduate researcher, now engineer in Colorado
Christal Martin (2018-2020) - undergraduate researcher, honors thesis, now graduate student at UTK
Immanuel Schmidt (2021-2022) - undergraduate researcher, honors thesis, now graduate student at UIUC
Charles Ladd (2018) - undergraduate summer research intern
Mary Kemp (2017) - undergraduate researcher