Our Team
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Principal Investigator: Dr. Alexander Klotz
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Long Beach, 2019-Present
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015-2019
- Ph.D., Department of Physics, McGill University, 2015
- M.Sc., Department of Physics, McGill University, 2011
- B.Sc., Department of Physics, Queen's University, 2008
Graduate Researchers
- Henry Sundland: Hydrodynamics in kinetoplast DNA.
- Victor Corona: Solid state nanopores
- Nick Cuomo: Kinetoplast DNA in microfluidics
- Transito Gonzalez: Machine learning in nanopore analysis
Undergraduate Researchers
- Donald Ferschweiler: Percolation phenomena in topological networks
- Teri Obara: DNA in nematic fluids
- Benjamin Estabrooks: Simulation of polymer entanglement
- Jack Keller: Liquid crystal phase transitions.
- A'anoali'i Eleasario: 3D printed microfluidics
Alumni
- Dave Holling (M.Sc 2022): Kinetoplasts in poor solvents
- Josh Ragotskie (M.Sc 2023): Destructive testing of kinetoplast DNA
- Nathan Howald (M.Sc 2022): Nanopore genomic mapping
- Kamyar Modjtahedzadeh (M.Sc 2022): Polymer simulation
- Sierra Breyer Rheaume: Catenane nanopore translocation
- Maria Maalouf: AFM imaging of DNA
- Owen Sneddon: Visualizing topologically complex DNA
- Chris Stackhouse: Visualizing gel electrophoresis
- Olivia Kridler: DNA-Actin Mixtures
- Jin Jeon: Microfluidic Mirrors
- Edgar Garcia: Linked ring simulations (M.Sc 2021)
- ​David Garcia: Mechanics of curved membranes
- Matthew Maldonado: Simulations of ideal knots
- Wyatt Hooper: Simulations of self-avoiding walks
- Marcus Wakefield: Confocal imaging of kinetoplasts