Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory: Faculty

HML FACULTY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Faculty
	Douglas Hart	Research Interests: Fluid Mechanics, Optical Diagnostics, Tribology
	Peko Hosoi	Research Interests: Instabilities in Viscous Flows, Low Reynolds Number Locomotion, Bioinspired Design
	Gareth McKinley	Research Interests: Extensional Rheology of Complex Fluids, Non-Newtonian Fluid Dynamics, Microrheology, Field-responsive Fluids, Super-Hydrophobicity, and the Development of Nanocomposite Materials.
	Tony Patera	Research Interests: Scientific and Engineering Computation; Numerical Methods and Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations; Continuum Mechanics and Transport
	Todd Thorsen	Research Interests: Microfluidics, Medical Diagnostics, Polymer Physics, Emulsion Rheology

Affiliated Faculty
	Roger Kamm	Research Interests: Applied Mechanics, Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Biomedical, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Mechanics, Finite Elements, Fluid Mechanics
	Rohit Karnik	Research Interests Microfluidic and nanofluidic systems: Transport in nanofluidics, development of new technologies for separation, sensing, and manipulation of molecules. Microfluidic devices for nanoparticle synthesis, micromixing, cell separation.
	Matt Lang	Research Interests: Bio Mechanics, Biological Motors, Protein Interactions, Single Molecule Methods, Optical Tweezers, Single Molecule Fluorescence, Biological Imaging, Mechanotransduction
	Thomas Peacock	Research Interests Stratified Flows, Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Experimental Methods, Applied Mathematics
	Evelyn Wang	Research Interests MEMS/NEMS design and sensing, optical diagnostics, systems integration; thermal management for high performance systems; bio-inspired micro-/nano-systems; micro-/nano-scale two-phase transport, heat transfer, and phase-change

Emeritus Faculty
C. Forbes Dewey	James Fay	Ronald Probstein	Ain Sonin

Post-Doctoral Associates

Chien Chih Huang
Taipei, Taiwan

Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, Boston University
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University
B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University

Research Area: Low-power, Portable Electro-microfluidic Devices for Real-time Medical Monitoring

Justin C.T. Kao
Huntington Beach, CA

B.S., Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
M.S., Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
Ph.D., Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University

Research Area: Flow and rheology of dense suspensions and other liquid-solid mixtures. Interfacial fluid dynamics: thin films, foams, and solidification.

Trushant Majmudar
Mumbai, India

B.Sc., Physics, University of Mumbai
M.Sc. , Physics, University of Pune
Ph.D., Physics, Duke University

Research Area: Jetting Dynamics of Viscoelastic Fluids

Johannes Soulages
Antibes, France

Ph.D., Materials Science , ETH Zuerich

Research Area: Microscale Rheo-Optics of Complex Fluids in Microfabricated Geometries

Administrative Assistants

Donna Wilker

B.A., Political Science, Georgetown University
M.A., Educational Psychology, University of New York at Buffalo