Losert Lab

Principal Investigator
	Wolfgang Losert Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Systems wlosert at umd.edu
Postdoctoral Researchers
	Julian Candia Research Associate for the Cancer Technology Partnership Complex Systems Approaches for Living Systems juliancandia at gmail.com Personal Website
	Mitch Mailman Properties of Granular Flow: Theory and Simulation mitch.mailman at gmail.com
	Kerstin Nordstrom Dynamics of Granular Impact knordstr at umd.edu LinkedIn, Curriculum Vitae
PhD Students
	Rodica Bauer E. coli Motility Department of Bioengineering - with Dr. W. Bentley rbauer1 at umd.edu
	Desu Chen Collective Dynamics of Cells Biophysics Program desuchen at umd.edu
	Sagar Chowdhury Motion Planning for Automatic Cell Manipulation Department of Mechanical Engineering - with Dr. S.K. Gupta sagar353 at umd.edu
	Meghan Driscoll Dynamics of Cells on Flat and 3D Surfaces Department of Physics - with Dr. J. Fourkas mkd at umd.edu
	Can Guven Modeling and Controlling Cell Dynamics Department of Physics cguven at umd.edu Personal Website
	Matt Harrington Dynamics of Granular Impacts and Shear Flows Department of Physics mjharrin at umd.edu
	Deborah Hemingway Biophysics Program - with Dr. Ajay Chitnis, National Institutes of Health dheming at umd.edu LinkedIn
	Matthew Kretschmer Cell Deformations with Optical Stretchers Department of Physics mkretsch at umd.edu
	Rachel Lee Mechanics of Collective Cell Motion Department of Physics - with Dr. Carole Parent, National Cancer Institute rmlee at umd.edu Personal Website
	Ryan Maunu Emergent Behavior in Living Systems with Dr. Jayanth Banavar
	Eleanor Ory (EChO) Optical Stretcher and Mechanical Properties of Epithelial and Mesenchymal Cells Biophysics Program - with Dr. A. Upadhyaya eleanor.ory at gmail.com
	Joshua Parker Cell Dynamics Modeling Department of Physics jmparker at umd.edu
	Steven Slotterback 3D Imaging of Granular Flows Department of Physics scsumd at umd.edu
	Xiaoyu Sun Nanofabrication to control cell dynamics Department of Chemistry - with Dr. J. Fourkas xsun1222 at umd.edu
	Yang Shen Emergent Behavior in Living Systems Chemical Physics Program - with Dr. Jayanth Banavar shenyang at umd.edu
	Chenlu Wang Robotic Cell Dynamics Biophysics Program - with Dr. S.K. Gupta clwang at umd.edu
Undergraduate Students
	Christopher Bennett Optical Tweezers zemoose at umd.edu
	Peter Kordell Cell Group Dynamics pkordell at umd.edu
	Michael Lin Rotations in Granular Matter mirber at verizon.net
	Zeshan Tariq Cell Stretcher zeshantariq2011 at gmail.com
	Bobby Vinson Electrically Stimulated Cells bobbyvinson at comcast.net
Visitors
	Tong Shen Shanghai Jiao Tong University funnycrab at sjtu.edu.cn
Alumni
	Erin Rericha (Postdoc 2004-2011) - Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
	Brian Koss (Postdoc 2009-2010) - Industry
	Mark Herrera (Graduate Student, Physics) - Current PhD Student with Dr. E.Ott
	Colin McCann (PhD Physics 2011) - Industry, Decisive Analytics Corporation
	Beatriz Burrola (PhD Physics 2010) - Postdoc Georgetown University Brooke Hester (PhD Chemical Physics 2010) - Visiting Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University Cory Poole (Masters Physics 2007) - Teacher, University Preparatory School in Redding, CA Chris Berardi (BS Physics 2009)
	Jacqueline Owens (BS Physics 2008) - Industry (Accelovance), Currently Masters student at John Hopkins University
	William Derek Updegraff (BS Physics Student)
Past Visitors
	Wim Briels (Burger's Program Visitor 2010) Willem van de Water (Burger's Program Visitor 2008)
	Mathijs Vermeulen (Visiting Student 2011) - Graduate Student, Eindhoven University of Technology
	Ludovic Jacob (Visiting Student 2010) - Graduate Student, University of Rennes Matthias van de Raa (Visiting Student 2010) - Graduate Student, University of Twente Joshua Dijksman (Visiting Student 2008) - University of Leiden Joost Weijs (Visiting Student 2008)
	Samuel Engel (TREND 2011)  - sde2105 at columbia.edu
	Brian Slusher (TREND 2011) - slusher.26 at osu.edu
Last updated by Rachel on May 15, 2012.  Please contact rmlee @ umd.edu for updates to this page and wlosert @ umd.edu for questions about the Dynamics of Complex Systems lab.