People

Prospective Students: Students of all majors who are interested in joining the SLAMLab should contact Dr. Ahmed directly. Please include a brief statement (~1 paragraph) including: who you are, your future goals, and your interest in SLAMLab. Please also include an updated CV. Prospective research students should have completed – or be close to completing – introductory coursework in physics (mechanics) and mathematics (calculus). Previous computer programming experience is big plus, but not required.

Meet the team!

: Dr. Wylie Ahmed
PI of SLAMLab

: Alistair Dumaup
Interfacial active matter

: Mauricio Gomez
Force measurement using optical tweezers

: Bryan Gworek
Active Enzymes

: Erick Leyva
Active Enzymes

: Farbod Movagharnemati
Dry active matter

: Tiffany Nguyen
Interfacial active matter

: Tyler Ulinskas
Stochastic analysis of strongly interacting particles

Lab Alumni: Our lab alumni have gone onto a wide range of fantastic things including: further study at MIT, Princeton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brandeis University, Syracuse University, UC Irvine, UC Merced; and careers in biotechnology and software development.

: Nicole La
Nonequilibrium dynamics of colloidal swimmers

: Abi Mendez
Low-cost rapid fabrication of microfluidic devices

: Danielle Posey
Active transport of vesicles in fibroblasts

: Paris Pijuan
Nonequilibrium dynamics of colloidal swimmers

: Karin Sherb
Macroscopic active matter

: Maria Alexandrescu
Macroscopic active matter

: Monika Tadrous
Quantifying velocity fluctuations in confined cell monolayers

: Lovell Willmore
Computational studies of active matter

: Corbyn Jones
Force measurement using optical tweezers

: Lauren Nguyen
Swimming active matter

: Alex Vidal
Signal analysis for microscopy and optical tweezers

: Sarah Eldeen
Statistical physics of active particles

: Anthony Estrada
Dry active matter

: Ryan Muoio
Energy dissipation in non-equilibrium systems

: Hunter Seyforth
Fluctuations in active baths

: Angie Arredondo
Active noise (co-advised w/ Brubaker)

: Catania Calavitta
Active noise (co-advised w/ Brubaker)

Collaborators and Visitors:

: Dr. Senthil Arumugam
Monash University, Faculty of Medicine

: Dr. Nicholas Brubaker
Cal State Fullerton, Department of Mathematics

: Dr. Étienne Fodor
University of Luxembourg, Department of Physics and Materials Science

: Dr. Veronica Jimenez
Cal State Fullerton, Department of Biological Sciences

: Dr. Marco Leoni
Université Paris-Sud, Direction des Systèmes d’Information (DSI)

: Dr. Matteo Paoluzzi
Sapienza – Università di Roma, Institute for Complex Systems, ISC-CNR, Dip. di Fisica

: Dr. Ben Rogers
Brandeis University, Department of Physics

: Dr. Jennifer Ross
Syracuse University, Department of Physics

: Dr. Jochen Schenk
Cal State Fullerton, Department of Biological Sciences

: Dr. Hervé Turlier
Collège de France, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology

Lab Mascots:

: Lisa Frank (Lab Mascot 1)
Experimental studies of eating and sleeping

: Brompy (Lab Mascot 2)
Expert in transport of biological organisms