Postdoctoral Researchers

Aravind Chandrasekaran

Joined lab in the Fall of 2021 

Education:

University of Maryland, College Park (Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2021)

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (M.Sc. in Bioinformatics and Structural Biology)

Anna University, Chennai, India (B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering)

Research Interests: Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, multiscale modeling.


Website link, GitHub link, Publications link


Contact Information: achandrasekaran@ucsd.edu

Lingxia Qiao

Joined lab in the Fall of 2021

Education: 

Peking University (PhD in Computational Mathematics 2020)

Beijing Normal University (BS in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in 2014)

Research Interests: Systems Biology, Noise in Biological, Mathematical Modeling

Publications link


Contact Information: liqiao@eng.ucsd.edu

Emmet Francis

Joined lab in the Summer of 2022

Education: 

University of California, Davis (Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2022)

University of California, Davis (B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2017)

Research Interests: Spatiotemporal models of signaling events, finite-element models of cell mechanics and motility, excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle fibers

Website link, GitHub link, Publications link


Contact Information: eafrancis@ucsd.edu

Ke Xiao

Joined lab in the Summer of 2023

Education: 

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2021-2023)

Xiamen University (PhD in Biophysics and Soft Condensed Matter, 2021)

Research Interests: Biophysics and Soft Matter 


Contact Information: kexiao@ucsd.edu

Shan Su

Joined lab in the Spring of 2024

Education: 

University of Auckland (PhD in Applied Mathematics 2024)

University of Auckland (MSc in Applied Mathematics 2020)

University of Auckland (BEng in Engineering Science 2016) 

Research Interests: Systems Biology, Modelling cellular signalling pathways in epithelial cells, neurons and astrocytes 

Website link, Publications link


Contact Information: s3su@ucsd.edu

Patrick Noerr

Joined lab in the Summer of 2024

Education: 

California State University (B.S. in Physics, 2019)

University of California Merced (Ph.D. in Physics, 2024)

Research Interests: Biological physics, active matter, mathematical modeling, mechanics and elasticity theory

Publications link

Contact Information: pnoerr@ucsd.edu