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I'm currently a Physics of Living Systems Fellow in the Department of Physics at MIT. I'm interested in self-organization and collective behavior in biological systems, and in active non-equilibrium materials more broadly.

I completed my PhD in the Needleman lab at Harvard, focusing on understanding how nanometer-scale molecular motor proteins collectively organize microtubules into structures on the micron and millimeter length scales. By combining quantitative microscopy, microfluidics, biochemistry, simulation, and analytical modeling we both built models of this self-organizing behavior and tested them quantitatively. 

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Physics of Living Systems Group, MIT
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