Goldstein Lab

People

Postdoctoral Research Associates

• Vasily Kantsler (Leverhulme Trust)
  V.Kantsler@damtp.cam.ac.uk
         Biophysical dynamics
  
• Kyriacos Leptos (BBSRC)
  K.Leptos@damtp.cam.ac.uk
         Biophysical dynamics
  
• Marco Polin (EPSRC Fellowship)
  M.Polin@damtp.cam.ac.uk
         Biophysical dynamics
  
• Jorn Dunkel (ERC)
  J.Dunkel@damtp.cam.ac.uk
         Biological Physics
  
• Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith (ERC)
  A.Honerkamp-Smith@damtp.cam.ac.uk
         Biological Physics
  

Graduate Students

• Sujoy Ganguly (DAMTP)
  S.Ganguly@damtp.cam.ac.uk
         Experimental biological physics
  
• Francis G. Woodhouse (DAMTP)
  F.G.Woodhouse@damtp.cam.ac.uk
         Theoretical biological physics
  
• Yixin (Kirsty) Wan (DAMTP)
  Y.Wan@damtp.cam.ac.uk
         Experimental biological physics
  
• Philipp Khuc-Trong (DAMTP & Cavendish Lab)
  pk357@cam.ac.uk
         Theoretical biological physics
  
• Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero (DAMTP)
  J.Dunstan@damtp.cam.ac.uk
         Theoretical biological physics
  
• Hugo Wioland (DAMTP)
  H.Wioland@damtp.cam.ac.uk
          Experimental biological physics
  

Sabbatical Visitors

• Prof. Howard C. Berg (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University), December 2011-May 2012
  hberg@mcb.harvard.edu
  
• Prof. Steven H. Strogatz (Department of Mathematics, Cornell University), April-June 2012
  shs7@cornell.edu
  

Visiting Interns

• Nils Giordano (Ecole Normale Superieure)
  ng355@cam.ac.uk
         Evolution
  
• Christophe Hennekine (Ecole Polytechnique)
  ch561@cam.ac.uk
         Fluid dynamics
  
• Simon Calvet (Ecole Polytechnique)
  sc730@cam.ac.uk
         Biological physics
  
• Bastien Bruneau (ESPCI)
  bb424@cam.ac.uk
         Biological physics
  

Long-Term Collaborator

• Cristian A. Solari (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, U. of Arizona & Laboratory of Comparative Biology of Protists, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  casolari@email.arizona.edu
         Swimming, stirring, and scaling in Volvox
  

Recent Visitors

• Prof. Gordon L. Fain (Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA)
  glf22@cam.ac.uk
  
• Prof. Jerry P. Gollub (Dept. of Physics, Haverford College), August 2008-July 2009
  jgollub@haverford.edu
  jg528@cam.ac.uk
         Biological Fluid Dynamics
  
• Prof. Sarah L. Keller (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Washington), Periodically during academic year 2008-9
  keller@chem.washington.edu
         Membrane Physics
  
• Prof. Shyamsunder Erramilli (Dept. of Physics, Boston University), Oct. 2007-August 2008
  shyam@bu.edu
         Biological Physics
  
• Prof. Mi K. Hong (Dept. of Physics, Boston University), Oct. 2007-August 2008
  mkhong@bu.edu
         Biological Physics
  
• Prof. Silas Alben (School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology), summer, 2007 (Crighton Fellow)
  alben@math.gatech.edu
         Biological Physics
  
• Anna H. Chen (Harvard University), summer, 2007
  annachen@fas.harvard.edu
         Biological Physics
  

Current and Recent Faculty Collaborators

• Adriana I. Pesci (DAMTP, Cambridge)
  A.I.Pesci@damtp.cam.ac.uk
        Coiling instabilities of jets, kinetic theory and quantum mechanics
  
• John O. Kessler (Physics, U. of Arizona)
  kessler@physics.arizona.edu
        Jet instabilities, bioconvection, large-scale bacterial coherence, Volvox
  
• Charles A. Stafford (Physics, U. of Arizona)
  stafford@physics.arizona.edu
        Stability and  dynamics of nanowires
  
• J. Warren Beck (Physics, U. of Arizona)
  wbeck@physics.arizona.edu
        Speleothem growth, Liesegang bands
  
• Jerome Buerki (Physics, U. of Arizona)
  buerki@physics.arizona.edu
         Dynamics of nanowires
  
• Juan M. Restrepo (Math & Physics, U. of Arizona)
  restrepo@physics.arizona.edu
        Jet instabilities, sand ripple dynamics
  
• Alain Goriely (Math, U. of Arizona)
  goriely@math.arizona.edu
        Dynamics of elastic filaments
  
• Karl Glasner (Math, U. of Arizona)
  glasner@math.arizona.edu
        Collective behavior in bacterial dynamics
  
• Andrew Hausrath (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, U. of Arizona)
  hausrath@email.arizona.edu
         Dynamics of protein folding
  
• James C. Baygents (Chem. & Environ. Eng., U. of Arizona)
  jcb@maxwell.che.arizona.edu
        Speleothem growth, precipitative pattern formation
  
• Joan Curry (Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, U. of Arizona)
  curry@ag.arizona.edu
        Speleothem growth, precipitative pattern formation
  
• Charles W. Wolgemuth (Cell Biology, U. of Connecticut Health Center)
  cwolgemuth@uchc.edu
        Biological fluid dynamics, spirochete flagella
  
• Nyles Charon (Cell Biology, U. West Virginia)
  charon@uwv.edu
        Spirochete flagella
  
• Thomas R. Powers (Solid Mechanics, Brown University)
  thomas_powers@brown.edu
        Membrane tethers, supercoiling dynamics, flagella, swimming
  
• Greg Huber (Departments of Cell Biology, Mathematics, and Physics, University of Connecticut)
  huber@uchc.edu
       Membrane tethers, flagellar polymorphism
  
• Daniel Coombs (Math, U. British Columbia)
  coombs@math.ubc.ca
       Flagellar polymorphism
  
• Rickard S. Toomey, III (Mammoth Cave, KY)
  rick.toomey@wku.edu
      Speleothem morphology
  

Former Ph.D. Students

• David P. Jackson (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1995)
  djackson@dickinson.edu
      Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Dickinson College
  
• Dean M. Petrich (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1995)
  dpetrich99@yahoo.com
     Head of Proprietary Analytics Group, Barclays Global Investors, San Francisco, CA
  
• Chris H. Wiggins (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1998)
  wiggins@columbia.edu
     Associate Professor, Applied Physics, Columbia University
  
• Charles W. Wolgemuth (Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2000)
  cwolgemuth@uchc.edu
     Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center
  
• Daniel Coombs (Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Arizona, 2001)
  coombs@math.ubc.ca
     Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
  
• Martin B. Short (Ph.D. Physics, University of Arizona, 2006)
  mbshort@math.ucla.edu
     Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
  
• Christopher Dombrowski (Ph.D. Physics, University of Arizona, 2007)
  ccdombrowski@ucdavis.edu
     Postdoc, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis
  
• David A. Stone (Ph.D. Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, 2007)
  dstone@u.arizona.edu
     Postdoc, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona
  
• Luis H. Cisneros (Ph.D. Physics, University of Arizona, 2009)
  cisluis@gmail.com
     Postdoc, Department of Physics, Arizona State University
  
• Jan-Willem van de Meent (Ph.D. Physics, Leiden University, 2010)
  vandemeent@damtp.cam.ac.uk
     Postdoc, Department of Applied Physics and Appled Mathematics, Columbia University
  
• Knut Drescher (Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 2011)
  K.Drescher@damtp.cam.ac.uk.cam.ac.uk
     Postdoc, Molecular Biology, Princeton University
  
• Juliette McGregor (Ph.D. Physics, University of Cambridge [joint w/Prof. Athene Donald], 2010)
  jem60@cam.ac.uk
  

Former Masters Students

• Ryan Krug (Physics, U. of Arizona)
  krug@email.arizona.edu
         Granular dynamics
  

Former Postdocs

• Kyoung J. Lee
  kjlee@seoul.ac.kr
     Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul
  
• Thomas R. Powers
  thomas_powers@brown.edu
       Associate Professor of Engineering,  Brown University
  
• Greg Huber
  huber@umb.edu
     Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts at Boston
  
• Cyril Picard
  cyril.picard@legi.grenoble-inp.fr
     Maitre de conference, Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels, Universite de Grenoble
  
• Idan Tuval
  ituval@imedea.uib-csic.es
     Department of Global Change Research, IMEDEA
  
• Luis Cisneros
  cisneros@physics.arizona.edu
     Department of Physics, Arizona State University