Principal Investigator

Andrej Košmrlj e-mail: andrej AT princeton DOT edu Office: EQUAD D404D Tel: (609) 258-8613 CV

Postdoctoral Researchers

Bez Lemma NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) Co-advised with Celeste Nelson e-mail: dl0346 AT princeton DOT edu

Graduate Students

	Anvitha Sudhakar (MAE) e-mail: asudakar AT princeton DOT edu
	Tejas Dethe (MAE) Co-advised with Howard Stone Prison Teaching Initiative Graduate Fellowship in Pedagogy (2023) Summerfield Second Year Fellowship (2020-21) e-mail: tdethe AT princeton DOT edu
	Yenan "Daniel" Shen (MAE) Co-advised with Naomi Leonard e-mail: yenan DOT shen AT princeton DOT edu
	Lauren Dreier (ARC) Co-advised with PT Brun APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award e-mail: ldreier AT princeton DOT edu
	Alison Root (ECE) e-mail: ahroot AT princeton DOT edu
	Qiwei Yu (BPY) Co-advised with Ned Wingreen e-mail: qiweiyu AT princeton DOT edu personal website: link Harold W. Dodds Fellowship (2024-25) Best Poster Award at the Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology (2025)
	Sihan Liu (MAE) e-mail: sihanliu AT princeton DOT edu Phillips Second Year Fellowship (2023-24)
	Sameeksha (MAE) Co-advised with Daniel Cohen e-mail: pu0229 AT princeton DOT edu

 

Visitors

Domen Škerlep ASEF Junior Fellow 2024

Alumni

	Hongbo Zhao Princeton Bioengineering Initiative — Innovators (PBI2), Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow: 2021-2024 Co-advised with Cliff Brangwynne and Sujit Datta Current position: Assistant Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego website
	Lohit Malik (MAE) M.S.E student: 2022-2024 Thesis: [PDF] Towards Designing a Lockable Self-Folding Origami Current position: Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at Cornell University
	Abby Plummer Princeton Center for Complex Materials Postdoctoral Research Fellow: 2021-2023 Second Poster Prize at the Princeton Materials Institute Symposium (2023) Invited presenter at the Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter Symposium at the University of Chicago (2021) Current position: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University website
	Liora Nasi (MAE) Donald J. Dike Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research (2024) Princeton Bioengineering Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2023)
	Soloman Khan-Syed (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2023)
	Ali Muslim Computational Biology Research, Gateway to STEM Research Experience for Undergraduates (2023) Current position: B.Sc. student in Psychology at Rutgers University
	Sijie Tong (MAE) Ph.D. student: 2016-2023 Thesis: [PDF] Mechanical response of soft matter systems: biological tissues and wrinkled structures Summerfield Second Year Fellowship
	Mohamed El Hedi Bahri (MAE) Ph.D. student: 2017-2023 Thesis: [PDF] Thermal Fluctuations of Active and Anisotropic Elastic Membranes NSF GRFP Honorable Mention Current position: Hill Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University
	Aman Eujayl PRISM/PCCM Research Experience for Undergraduates (2022)
	Rosy Monaghan (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2022)
	Arthur Berberyan PRISM/PCCM Research Experience for Undergraduates (2022)
	Raphael Vogeley (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2022)
	Alex Ban (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2021)
	Yujin Angolio (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2021)
	Kathryn-Alexa Kennedy (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2021)
	Lauren Rawson (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2021)
	Isa Kessinger (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2021)
	Michael Hwang (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2021)
	Bryan O. Rivera-Rivera PRISM/PCCM Research Experience for Undergraduates (2021) Current position: B.Sc. student in Physics Applied to Electronics at University of Puerto Rico-Humacao
	Steven Contreras Computational Biology Research, Gateway to STEM Research Experience for Undergraduates (2021) Current position: B.Sc. student in Economics at Rutgers University
	Siddhartha Sarkar (ECE) Ph.D. student: 2015-2021 Thesis: [PDF] Multipoles, symmetry representations and thermal fluctuations in elastic systems Current position: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
	Matt Heinrich (MAE) Ph.D. student: 2016-2021 Co-advised with Daniel Cohen Shirley Chan Student Travel Grant awarded by the Division of Biological Physics (DBIO) in the American Physical Society Thesis: [PDF] Macroscopic tissue growth, expansion, and collision: Biophysical insights toward tissue sheet engineering strategies Current position: Moderna, Inc.
	Navreeta Singh (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2020)
	Polina Zhilkina (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2020)
	Marie Li (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2020)
	Ritvik Agnihotri (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2020)
	Wenyuan Hou (MAE) independent work (Fall 2019)
	Sheng Mao postdoc: 2016-2020 Best Poster Prize at the Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM’19) conference held jointly with the 11th Northeastern Complex Fluids and Soft Matter (NCS) workshop (2019) Current position: Assistant Professor of Mechanics and Engineering Science at Peking University, China website
	Milena Chakraverti-Wuerthwein (Physics) junior project (Spring 2019) Hertz Fellowship Award NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award
	Nicholas Carrillo PRISM/PCCM Research Experience for Undergraduates (2019)
	Hunter Gaudio PRISM/PCCM Research Experience for Undergraduates (2019) Current position: B.S.E. student in Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University
	Katherine Mumm (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2019)
	Tomisin Fasawe (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2019)
	Alfred Yoon (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2019)
	Ekin Gurgen (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2019)
	Emily Achterkirch (MAE) senior thesis (2018-19)
	Lydon Kersting (MAE) senior thesis (2018-19) Enoch J. Durbine Prize for Engineering Inovation
	Dylan Baroody (MAE) senior thesis (2018-19)
	Bartek Kaczmarski (MAE) senior thesis (2018-19) first prize Morgan W. McKinzie ’93 Senior Thesis Prize co-winner Sau-Hai Lam *58 Prize in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Current position: PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
	Yinan Zheng (Physics) senior thesis (2018-19) junior project (Spring 2018)
	Jan Zavodnik visitor: Aug-Oct 2018 ASEF Fellow Current position: Masters student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
	Andreia Fenley research assistant (2017-2018) Current position: Ph.D. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University
	Matevž Marinčič visitor: Jul-Aug 2018 ASEF Fellow Current position: Ph.D. student in Physics at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
	Jan Rozman visitor: Aug 2018 visitor: Jun-Aug 2016 ASEF Fellow Current position: Ph.D. student in Physics at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
	Derek Kuldinow PRISM/PCCM Research Experience for Undergraduates (2018) Current position: B.Sc. student in physics at Yale University
	Bora Kiyan (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2018)
	Jerry Xiang (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2018)
	Luka Starčevič visitor: Sep-Oct 2017 ASEF Fellow Current position: Masters student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maribor (Slovenia)
	Žiga Gosar visitor: Aug-Sep 2017 ASEF Fellow Current position: Masters student in physics at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
	Paul Talledo PRISM/PCCM Research Experience for Undergraduates (2017) Current position: Masters student in physics at California State University, Northridge
	Julian Castellon (MAE) MAE Summer Practical Research Experience (2017)
	Tristan Guyomar visitor: May-Jul 2017 Current position: Masters student in physics at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France)
	Beni Snow (MAE) independent work (Spring 2017)
	Cecilia Stoner (MAE) senior thesis (2016-17) Outstanding Leadership Award in Materials Second prize Donald J. Dike Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Current position: Masters in Materials Science at University of Virginia jointly with NASA Langley Research Center
	Miguel Ruiz Garcia visitor: Apr-May 2017 Current position: Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain website
	Miha Brojan visitor: Aug-Oct 2016 e-mail: miha DOT brojan AT fs DOT uni-lj DOT si Assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia website
	Veronika Cencen visitor: Sep-Oct 2016 ASEF Fellow Current position: Ph.D. student in Biotechnology and Bioengineering at EPFL (Switzerland)

Past group photos

Summer 2021

Winter 2019

Summer 2019

Summer 2018

Winter 2017

Summer 2017

Fall 2016