Weeks Lab People

People:

Cory	Venkatesh	Dayou	David
Waad	Antoine	Philip	Eric	Weishi

For email address in table below, replace / with @.

Name	Current project	Phone (404)	Office	Email
Cory Donofrio (grad student)	free energy landscapes	727-2977	MSC W205A	cjdonof / emory.edu
Venkatesh Jha (grad student) MTuW 2 pm onward	rheology of polydisperse emulsions	---	Emerson 350	venkatesh.jha / emory.edu
Dayou Liu (undergraduate) TuTh 10 am - 4 pm	oil droplet breakup in 3D	---	---	dayou.liu / emory.edu
David Meer (grad student)	random close packing, clogging. APS DSOFT video gallery award, 2025.	712-8669	350B	david.meer / emory.edu
Waad Paliwal (grad student)	colloidal gels, flow of polydisperse emulsions	---	350A	waad.paliwal / emory.edu
Antoine Wang (grad student) MWTh afternoons	droplet breakup	---	Emerson 350B	antoine.wang / emory.edu
Philip Wang (undergraduate) MTuWTh 3-5 pm; occasionally Friday afternoons	flow of polydisperse emulsions	---	---	awangsr / emory.edu
Eric Weeks (email answerer)	writing papers	727-4479	309	erweeks / emory.edu
Weishi Xing (grad student)	flow of polydisperse emulsions	---	350A	weishi.xing / emory.edu

Phone numbers: lab 350: 712-8669

Current Collaborators:

• Paulo Arratia at U. Pennsylvania
• Antonio Jose Faria Bombard & Julio Gabriel de Falco Manuel at the Federal University of Itajuba, Brazil
• Vince Conticello & Andres Gonzalez Socorro at Emory Chemistry
• Kari Dalnoki-Veress, Johnathan Hoggarth, JC Ono-dit-Biot, & Solomon Barkley at McMaster University
• Charlotte Garing at the University of Georgia
• Piotr Habdas at St. Joseph's University
• Mazi Jalaal & Nico Schramma at the University of Amsterdam
• N. M. Anoop Krishnan & Suresh Bishnoi at IIT-Dehli
• Elsie Effah Kaufmann & Miracle Ndego at the University of Ghana
• Yonggang Ke & Luyao Shen at Emory (Biomedical Engineering)
• Michael Moshe at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Rene Nome at the State University of Campinas, Brazil
• Corey O'Hern at Yale and Mark Shattuck at CCNY
• Daniel Sussman at Emory (Physics)

Recent Past Collaborators:

• Vahid Serpooshan, Carmen Gil, and Liqun Ning at Emory/GaTech (Biomedical Engineering) (2023)
• Michelle Wang at Emory (Physics) (2023)
• Nicholas Bailey at Roskilde University (2023)
• Rosario Moctezuma (Univ. San Luis Potosi) and Fernando Donado (Univ. Hidalgo) (2021)
• Khalid Salaita & Yixiao Dong at Emory (Chemistry) (2021)
• Victor Breedveld & Jianshan Liao at Georgia Tech (2021)
• Amir Pourmorteza at Emory (Radiology & Imaging Sciences) (2020)
• Scott Franklin & Sean Peterson at RIT (2019)
• William Ducker & Yow-Ren Chang at Virginia Tech (2019)
• David Dunlap, Laura Finzi, & Daniel Kovari at Emory (2019)
• Yujie Wang at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019)

Former Lab Members:

• Pablo Illing, Fall '19 - Spring '25 -- sheared granular media, flow of highly polydisperse materials
  Ph.D. in physics, May '25. Currently: postdoctoral researcher with Jean-Francois Louf at Auburn University.
• Jessica Eyeson, Spring '22 - Spring '25 -- rheology of chitosan hydrogels
  B.S. in Engineering Sciences, May 2025. Currently: Summer '25 she'll be at the University of Michigan for an internship
• Madeleine Wilson, Fall '24 -- colloidal gels
  Currently: undergraduate at Emory
• Ayantu Uli, Summer '24 -- sheared granular media
  Currently: undergraduate at Ithaca College
• Ben Lonial, Fall '21 - Spring '24 -- clogging, colloidal gels
  B.S. in Physics (& Philosophy), May '23. Currently: graduate student in physics at UC-Santa Barbara
• Isabela Galoustian, Fall '22 - Spring '24 -- colloidal monolayers, random close packing
  B.S. in Engineering Science, May '24. Currently: graduate student in materials science at Drexel in Wes Chang's lab (started Fall '24)
• Erin Johnson, Fall '23 -- rheology of 'slime'
  Currently: physics major at Emory
• Iris Qiao, Summer & Fall '23 -- clogging simulations
  Currently: physics major at Emory
• Drisha Sehgal, Fall '23 -- clogging
  Currently: rotation in the Davis lab (Summer '24)
• Ruohong Gao, Spring '20 - Fall '22 -- colloidal monolayers.
  Aug 2022 poster 1, 2. Currently: undergraduate at Emory.
• Yonglun Jiang, Fall '16 - Summer '22 -- emulsions
  Ph.D. in physics, May '22 -- dissertation. Postdoctoral research with Ludovic Berthier at Univ. Montpellier, France, from graduation through the end of 2024. In 2025, started as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Chengdu University of Technology (China).
• Piotr Habdas, returned to lab for Spring '22 -- clogging simulations and experiments
  Currently: professor at St. Joseph's University
• Julio Gabriel de Falco Manuel, Spring '22 and Fall '23 -- random close packing, magnetorheological fluids
  Currently: Graduate student at UNIFEI, Brazil.
• Swagata Datta, Summer '21, Summer '22 -- colloidal gels, interlocking granular materials
  Picture at August 2022 poster session. Graduated Spring 2023 with a degree in physics from Bennington College. Started Fall 2023 at Univ. of Alberta in the master's program in mathematical physics.
• Ran Tao, Fall '19 - Spring '21 -- clogging of soft particles
  • B.S. in Physics, May '21 -- honors thesis. Fall 2021, started University of Pennsylvania physics graduate program; working in Mathijssen Lab.
• Tre Presley, Fall '20 - Spring '21 -- jammed emulsions simulations
  • B.S. in Physics, May '21. Honors thesis. Started mechanical engineering graduate school at the University of Utah, Fall 2021. Awarded the DOD NDSEG fellowship, Spring 2022.
• Francesca Abulencia, Fall '20 - Spring '21 -- simulations of glass transition
  • B.S. in Engineering Sciences, May '21. Summer 2021 interning at Novartis. Fall 2021 started a master's program in biomedical engineering at Brown; working with Vikas Srivastava. Spring 2022 co-op position with Pfizer (Cambridge, MA).
• Steven Rhodes, Spring '18 - Spring '20; Spring '21 -- slicing experiments, successfully repairing the confocal microscope
  B.S. in physics, May 2021. Georgia Tech (aerospace engnieering) graduate program started in Fall 2021.
• Andy Eddins, Summer '19 - Fall '20 -- ellipsoid diffusion
  Currently: ?
• Cong Cao, Spring '15 - Fall '20 -- aging, rheology
  Ph.D. in Physics, December 2020 -- dissertation. After graduation, worked as a decision analytic associate consultion at ZS Associates 2021-22. Married to Grace in December 2021. Associate & JEM at McKinsey Dallas, May 2022 - Jan 2025. Currently: Lead, Client Performance at Healthmap Solutions in Dallas, TX.
• Anisa Hofert, Summer '19 - Spring '20 -- clogging
  B.S. in Physics, May 2020 -- honors thesis. University of Texas at Austin for physics graduate school Fall 2021 - Summer 2022. Currently: Application Engineer at ASML, Austin, TX.
• Owen (Jason) Jiang, Summer '19 - Spring '20 -- random close packing experiments
  B.S. degree in human biology, health, and society from Cornell, May 2022. Had transferred from Emory to Cornell in Fall 2020. Worked in sales & trading with Credit Suisse (Hong Kong) summer 2021 and continuing after graduation. One year program at Yale 2023-24 studying asset management. Currently (Fall 2024) pursuing a CS masters degree at UPenn.
• Tharindu Rajasooriya, Fall '19 -- sedimentation and clogging
  Ph.D. Spring 2025 with Prof. Khalid Salaita. Currently: a Research Scientist II at Chemence Medical (Alpharetta, GA), working on medical adhesives.
• Julian Freeman, Spring '15 - Summer '19 -- random close packing of rods
  B.S. in Physics, December 2016. Currently: working in Atlanta for the CDC.
• Madelyn Wilson, Spring '19 - Summer '19 -- clogging of soft particles
  Currently: undergraduate at Columbia University
• Nisha Lama, Fall '17 - Fall '18 -- 2D colloidal phases
  Currently: in Nepal
• Mia Morrell, Summer '17 - Fall '18 -- clogging experiments & simulations
  B.S. in physics, May 2020. Received the Burt and Betty Schear Book Award for Emory College of Arts and Sciences, May 2020. Currently: post-baccalaureate year at LANL, and then starting physics PhD program at NYU in Fall 2021
• Aviva Young, July '18 -- sizing colloidal particles
  Graduated high school, class of 2020. Started Fall '20 at Carnegie Mellon
• Yijun Dong, Fall '16 - Spring '18 -- 2D colloidal phases
  B.S. in applied math and physics, May '18. honors thesis. Ph.D. in computational science, engineering, and mathematics, 2023, from the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, UT Austin. Currently: Courant Instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU.
• Rachel Tao, Fall '17 - Spring '18 -- building rheoscope
  B.S. in physics and astronomy, May '19. Currently: Python Developer at BlackRock in Atlanta.
• Dana Harvey, Spring '18 -- colloidal clogging
  Ph.D. working with Justin Burton, December 2022. Currently: postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Labs
• Stefan Zotovic, Fall '16 - Fall '17 -- confined colloidal suspensions
  B.S. in applied math, May 2019. Currently: Global markets analyst at BNP Paribas.
• Pan Dong, Summer '17 - Fall '17 -- clogging in tubes
  Last seen: finishing undergrad degree at Nankai University.
• Keely Criddle, Spring '16 - Summer '17 -- porous media flow, free energy landscapes
  2017-2021: teaching at Chatham Hall, a secondary boarding school for girls in south-central Virginia. November 2021 - July 2023: math QA engineer at Light & Wonder in Chicago. August 2023: started law school at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Institute of Technology).
• Kellianne Kornick, Summer '17 -- microrheology
  B.S. physics from Rochester Institute of Technology 2022; worked with George Thurston, Moumita Das, and Scott Franklin. Currently: graduate student in physics at Harvard.
• Haoran Wang, Fall '15 - Spring '17 -- clogging, Pickering emulsions
  B.S. in physics, May '17. Honors thesis. M.S. degree in computer science with a focus on machine learning, at UCLA, 2019. Currently: software engineer at Snap Inc, Santa Monica, California.
• Anika Tahsin, Spring '17 -- clogging & flow
  M.S. in Biomedical Enterprise, Georgia State Univ., 2018. Currently: Working on a M.S. degree in environmental engineering at Georgia Tech.
• Skanda Vivek, Fall '11 - Fall '16 -- interfacial microrheology, 2D glasses
  Ph.D. in physics, December '16. Dissertation. Twins Akash and Arush born May 2019. Postdoc at Georgia Tech with Peter Yunker. Assistant professor of physics at Georgia Gwinnett College Fall 2019 - Spring 2022. Since Summer 2022, senior data scientist at OnSolve. Personal websiteblog.
• Xin Du, Spring '11 - Summer '16 -- emulsions, energy landscapes
  Ph.D. in physics, December '16. Dissertation. Assistant professor at Aquinas College, 2017-2021. Married, April 2025. Currently: assistant professor in physics at Widener University.
• Carlos Orellana, Fall '13 - Summer '16, Summer '17-Fall '17 -- emulsions, diffusion in confinement
  Currently: Data Scientist at Anglo American in Santiago, Chile
• Xia Hong, Spring '10 - Spring '16 -- clogging, emulsions
  Ph.D. in physics, May '17. Dissertation. Worked as a data scientist at LinkedIn 2017-2023. Currently: employed at Grammerly (San Francisco, CA). LinkedIn page Daughter Selene born July 2021.
• Ariana Rahgozar, Fall '15 - Spring '16 -- simulations of glass transition
  B.S. in engineering/music, Georgia Tech/Emory, December '18.
• Janna Lowensohn, Summer '14 - Spring '15 -- emulsions
  B.A. in physics, May '15. Ph.D. in physics, Brandeis University, December '20. Worked in Burton lab for a year. Postdoctoral researcher in Belgium 2021-22. Currently: scientist at Amgen in California. Engaged as of May '22.
• Moyo Odunsi, Spring '13 - Spring '15 -- colloidal glasses, aging
  B.A. in physics, May '15. Worked for Accenture in San Antonio for a couple years post-graduation. Ph.D. in physics at CUNY, January '24 (with Mark Shattuck and Jeff Morris). News story about her PhD work. Currently: starting in July 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher working with Nidhi Pashine's lab at Syracuse University
• Xiaolei Ma, Fall '14 -- emulsions
  Ph.D, February 2019 (Burton lab). Postdoc at the University of Minnesota, 2019-2023. Currently: working at Henkel (just outside Minneapolis) since April 2023. Website.
• Jacqueline Holland, Summer '14 -- particle sizing
  Graduated high school May 2016. B.S. in chemistry from Valdosta State, May 2021. Currently: ??
• Michael Thees, Summer '14 -- colloidal crystals
  Ph.D. in physics, May 2020, had worked in the Roth lab. Currently: Univ. of Waterloo, postdoc with Jamie Forrest
• Rui Wu, Spring '12 - Spring '14 -- colloidal glass transition, emulsions.
  B.S. in physics, May '14. Honors thesis. Worked for a year in Justin Burton's lab at Emory. NYU for physics graduate school Fall 2015 - present.
• Max Perchak, Spring '13 - Spring '14 -- colloidal crystals
  B.S. in physics, May '14. Worked as a business analyst for Ernst & Young (in Atlanta area). Currently: Working as a data modeling analyst at Geico (in Washington DC).
• Xinru Huang, Fall '13 -- aging
  Ph.D. in physics May 2018, had worked in the Roth lab. Currently: Consultant at Porsche Consulting (in Atlanta).
• Fayzan Rab, Fall '12 - Summer '13 -- microrheology
  B.A. in physics, May '13. Worked at Google after graduation through July 2017. Employed at Mindstrong August 2017-April 2019. Currently: founder, Fayzan Rab Coaching; Emory medical student as of Fall 2020.
• Kelsey Hattam, Fall '10 and Fall '12 -- random close packing
  M.S. in physics, Dec '13 (from Roth lab). Master's thesis. Currently: Artist and small business owner (Khromatic Miniatures)
• Zuzana Hnyluchova, Fall '12 -- interfacial microrheology
  Last seen: chemistry graduate student at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic (PhD 2016)
• James Sebel, late Spring '10 - Summer '12 -- interfacial microrheology
  B.A. in physics, December '11. Copy of honors thesis. J.D., May 2015, Harvard University. Currently: lawyer working at a patent law firm in Boston.
• Ken Desmond, Summer '06 - Spring '12 -- microrheology, rcp, emulsions
  Ph.D. in physics, May '12. Dissertation, publicity, LinkedIn profile. Postdoctoral fellow with Megan Valentine at UC-Santa Barbara. Worked at ExxonMobil 2013-2023. Independent researcher since that time.
• Nabiha Saklayen, Summer '09 - Spring '12 -- confined glass transition, rotational diffusion
  B.S. in physics, May '12. Honors thesis. Ph.D. in physics, Harvard University, May '17 (Eric Mazur's lab). Writer on Medium.com. Currently: CEO/co-founder of Cellino Biotech, which won a startup challenge (also this link). Named to MIT Technology Review's 35 under 35 in 2018. Cellino Biotech made Forbes's "30 under 30" list (here). Nabiha's fascinating TED talk.
• David Kilgore, Spring '10 - Spring '12 -- colloidal rods
  B.S. in physics, May '12. M.S. in electrical engineering, Georgia Tech, 2013. Currently: PV engineer at Ciena in Alpharetta, GA.
• Gary Hunter, Fall '06 - Spring '12 -- confined glass transition, colloidal gels
  Ph.D. in physics, May '12. Dissertation. Postdoctoral fellow at NYU with Paul Chaikin 2012-2015. Currently: at ExxonMobil.
• Thibaut Divoux , Fall '11 - Spring '12 -- interfacial microrheology
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: heading for a job at CNRS-Bordeaux
• Meghan Kohne, Fall '11 -- clogging
  Ph.D. in physics, May 2018, worked in the Warncke lab. Currently: Data scientist at Equifax (Atlanta, GA)
• Kazem Edmond, Summer '06 - Summer '11 -- confined glass transition, rotational diffusion, movie, dissertation.
  Ph.D. in physics, August '11. Postdoc at NYU with David Pine, 9/11-9/14. Postdoc at University of Oxford with Roel Dullens. Currently: Working at ExxonMobil
• Dandan Chen , Summer '06 - Summer '11 -- sheared suspensions, quasi-2D emulsions
  Ph.D. in physics, December '10. Dissertation. Currently: Lecturer at Soochow University
• Gopal Subedi, Summer '10 - Summer '11 -- interfacial microrheology.
  Former lab technician in the Weeks lab. M.S. in medical physics from Perdue, 2014. Currently: medical physicist at Wellstar Keenstone Hospital, Marietta, GA.
• Daniel Real, Summer '06; Spring '10 - Spring '11 -- Brownian motion
  B.S. in physics, May '11; honors thesis. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke, Dec '15. Currently: Portfolio manager - Strategic Investment Funds at Advanced Energy, Raleigh-Durham area, NC
• Paul Martin, Spring '10, Fall '10 - Spring '11 -- interfacial microrheology
  B.S. in physics, May '11. M.S. in computer science from Georgia Tech (2017-2021). Currently: senior application support analyst at Georgia Tech.
• Laura (Golick) Gray, Summer '09 - Spring '10 -- emulsions
  Ph.D. in physics, May '14, worked in the Roth lab. Postdoc at Princeton working with Rodney Priestley. Currently: Research scientist at Solvay Specialty Polymers (Atlanta, GA)
• Justin Pye, Spring '10 -- soap films
  Ph.D. in physics, May '14. Postdoctoral fellow in the Burton lab. Currently: Research Professional at Arizona State University - SciHub
• Rei Kurita, Fall '07 - Fall '09 -- fragility simulations, rcp experiments
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: Associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. First son Yu born late 2012, second son Ko born late 2016.
• Marquise Hopson, Summer '09 -- soap films
  B.S. in biochemistry, Vassar, May '10. M.D., George Washington medical school, May 2018. Currently: Physician in Saint Paul, MN.
• Jenn Lynch, Spring '07 - early Summer '09 -- aging in colloidal glasses
  B.S. in physics, May '09. Ph.D. in physics, University of Pennsylvania, '14. M.D., NYU School of Medicine, '17. Currently: Physician at Univ. Pennsylvania Health System (Philadelphia, PA)
• Zach Nadler, Fall '08 - early Summer '09 -- 2D colloidal phases
  B.S. in physics, May '09. Grad school at UC-Santa Cruz '09-'10 studying astrophysics. Later earned an MD. Currently: Ophthalmology resident, U Pittsburgh.
• James Davidheiser, Summer '08 - Spring '09 -- chaotic fluid flows; dissertation
  Ph.D. in physics, May '09. Currently: in Pennsylvania, working (remotely) at Asana as a Data Scientist
• Joaquim Clara-Rahola, Spring '07 - Spring '09 -- sheared emulsions
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: working at Univ. of Girona and also Financial/R and D Director, AMV CAPS, Spain.
• Vikram Prasad, Fall '04 - Winter '08/09 -- 2D colloidal systems
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: working for Dow Chemical Company, Midlands, Michigan
• Gianguido Cianci, Fall '01 - Summer '08 -- magbeads, aging
  Ph.D. in physics, May '08. Research assistant profoessor with T. J. Hope at Northwestern U, 2008-2021. Data scientist at Abbott Molecular in Des Plaines, Illinois, 2021-2025. Married Frances Lennon 2012. Son born 2014. Daughter born 2017. Passed away March 27, 2025 due to a brain tumor called Glioblastoma (diagnosed February 2024).
• Pearl Young, Fall '07 - Summer '08 -- emulsions
  B.S. in Physics, May '10; M.A. in History, May '10. Ph.D in history, UNC Chapel Hill, 2018. Taught history several years at Kennesaw State. Married to Jonathan Morris, June 2024. Currently: Assistant professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake since Fall 2021. Faculty Spotlight on Pearl in "Current", read it to learn more about her research (on southern religion and the Civil War).
• Jakub Otwinowski, Fall '07 - Spring '08 -- diffusion and glass transition
  Ph.D. in Physics, Aug '12, with Ilya Nemenman and Stefan Boettcher. Postdoctoral fellow at UPenn. Currently: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization -- Google Scholar page
• Cara Hageman, Fall '07 - Spring '08 -- 2D colloidal phases
  B.A. in physics from Emory, Dec. 2009. Taught for a while in Salamanca, Spain. Currently: Operational Accounting Consultant at Fidelity National Financial.
• Tiffany Soo, Spring '07 - Spring '08 -- colloidal gels
  B.B.A., May '10. Currently: Director, Global and Technical Accounting at Outbrain (New York City). Daughter Diana born May 2021.
• Denis Semwogerere, Spring '04 - Summer '07 -- flowing colloids
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: in Toronto, data analyst for the Shopping Channel
• Scott Franklin, Summer '06 - Summer '07 -- colloidal glass transition
  Sabbatical visitor to the lab. Currently: Professor of Physics at RIT, Director of RIT's Center for Advancing Science/Math Teaching, Learning and Evaluation (CASTLE)
• Takayuki Narumi, Summer '07 -- colloidal glass transition
  Ph.D. in physics from Tohoku Univ., 2010. Postdoctoral fellow at Kyushu Univ., April 2010-March 2013; postdoctoral fellow at Kwansei Gakuin Univ., April 2013-March 2014. Associate professor at Yamaguchi University, 2014-2025. Currently, associate professor of economics at the University of Kitakyushu. Photo of Takayuki and son Yutaro, early 2015.
• Lov Goel, Spring '06 - Spring '07 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.A. in physics, May '07. J.D., UC Davis, May '10; passed California bar July 2010. Patent lawyer in California, 2010-2014. vice president at Green Polymeric Materials, Inc, 2014-2018. Then at Unity Technologies (Senior Business Operations Partner). LinkedIn page. 2/2024: twin girls are almost 2.5 years old; working at Apple on Business Development for Vision Pro.
• Jin Ha Kim, Spring '06 - Fall '06 -- hydraulic jump & biopolymer gels
  Last seen: ???
• Cortney Crane, Fall '05 - Summer '06 -- emulsion glasses
  B.S. in physics, May '08. Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Univ. of Virginia, 2013. Fall '06 in Australia. Currently: Principal, Pond & Company in Atlanta.
• Jessica Hernandez-Guzman, Fall '05 & Spring '06 -- colloidal crystals
  Ph.D. in physics, Aug '10 (Warncke lab -- dissertation). Currently: teaching physics and math at Adams State College, Alamoso, CO
• Tsondue Samphel, Summer '03 thru Fall '03, Spring '05 thru Spring '06 -- colloidal gels
  B.S. in physics, May '06. Grad school at Emory ILA; famous translator. Currently: senior program coordinator with the Emory Tibet Initiative.
• Ben Bluth, Fall '04 thru Spring '06 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.A. in physics from Emory, May '07. MD from UCLA, June '11. Orthopedic residency at UCLA, 2011-2016. Currently: Doctor specializing in orthopedic hand surgery, Carmichael, CA
• Sabrina (Rainwater) David, Fall '05 -- binary colloidal glasses
  B.S. in math from Emory, May '07. Ph.D. in applied math, U of Maryland, December '12. Postdoctoral fellow at NRL (Monterey, California), 2012-2015. Son Arthur born 2013. Currently: math teacher in Ocala, FL (high school & also a dual enrollment program)
• Ted Brzinski, Fall '02 thru Summer '05 -- emulsion glasses
  B.S. in physics, May '05. Ph.D. in physics, University of Pennsylvania, Spring '13. Daughter Juniper born August 2015, daughter Lark born January 2019. Postdoctoral fellow at NC State with Karen Daniels, 2013-16. Currently: assistant professor of physics at Haverford, Fall 2016 - present.
• Jason Hay, Spring '05 thru Summer '05 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.S. in physics, Georgia Tech, Dec '04. M.S. degree in science policy from George Washington Univ. Consultant working with the Tauri Group 2005-2019. Currently: Program Manager at LMI, Alexandria, VA
• Carrie Nugent, Summer '04 & Summer '05 -- confined colloidal glasses
  B.S. in physics, Bucknell Univ., May '05. Ph.D. in Geophysics & Space Physics, UCLA, Spring '13. See her TED talk on finding asteroids. Cool cartoon video she wrote about finding the first asteroid. Related book she wrote. Worked at NASA's JPL (CalTech) as a postdoctoral researcher with Amy Mainzer. Currently: Associate professor of computational physics and planetary science at Olin College (started Fall 2018; Needham, MA). 2024: Fulbright Scholar grant letting her conduct asteroid research at Aalborg University (Denmark).
• Joe Saldana, Fall '04 & Spring '05 -- confined colloidal glasses
  Last seen: in Atlanta
• Kevin Welsher, Fall '04 & Spring '05 -- colloidal crystals
  B.S. in chemistry & B.A. in physics, May '05. Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford, Aug '10. Fall 2021 Emory "40 under 40". Currently: Assistant professor of chemistry at Duke (as of July 2015).
• Brad Andrews, Summer '04 thru Fall '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in secondary education from UIC. Taught physics and chemistry in Chicago suburbs 2009-2014, and then taught yoga in the Chicago suburbs. Passed away in April 2020 due to a catastrophic brain injury.
• Rachel Courtland, Summer '01 thru Summer '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in physics, August '04. M.S. in Science Communication, UC-Santa Cruz, 2007. Was intern journalist at Nature Spring '08. Working for IEEE Spectrum in NYC for many years. In summer 2021, moved to Oregon and started an editing job at MIT Technology Review.
• Susannah (Cooke) Lomant, Summer '03 & Summer '04 -- colloids and jamming
  Currently: Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Perimeter College - Decatur Campus, GSU
• Piotr Habdas, Dec '01 thru Summer '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: Professor of physics at St. Joseph's University
• Doug Anderson, Summer/Fall '01 & Summer '03 thru Summer '04 -- microscopic colloidal flow
  
  B.A. in physics from Emory, May '03. MA in classics from UGA '07. MA in Religion from the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Boston) (date?). Married Dorcas November 2010 (picture). Currently: living in Singapore teaching English
• David Schaar, Summer '02 - Spring '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in physics from Emory, Dec '03. Married Raja 2006, they now have two cute kids, Daniel and Nuri. Daniel Schaar and Marion Weeks are the same age and enjoyed playing together for their first few years. Dave taught physics at Decatur High School through Spring 2016. Currently: teaching science at Science Leadership Academy (high school) in Philadelphia.
• Amy Franciscovich, Spring '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.S. in chemistry from Emory, Dec '06. M.D. from Harvard Medical School, May '13. Pediatrics resident at Johns Hopkins 2013-2016. Currently: attending physician at St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• Christina Wallace, Spring '03 thru Summer '03 -- aging of colloidal glasses
  B.A. in theater studies & math, May '05. MBA, Harvard Business School, May '10. Consultant in Washington, DC for a a year. Launched a startup company in NYC, Quincy Apparel. Currently: founding director of BridgeUp: STEM at the American Museum of Natural History. She mentioned the lab in an interview she gave Huffington Post! Forte Foundation article she wrote about going to business school. An Emory "40 under 40" recipient (2018). Married in 2018, daughter Arden born late 2019. Published the book The Portfolio Life" in April 2023.
• Shanshan Wu, Fall '02 thru Summer '03 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in physics from Emory, July 2003. Ph.D. in physics from Brown, 2008. Currently: in Beijing, China, Managing Director, Head of Internet & Hitech business at Accenture Strategy.
• Hetal Patel, Summer '01 thru Spring '03 -- bumpy walls
  B.A. in chemistry & history from Emory, May '03. M.D. from St. George's Univ., 2010. 2010's and early 2020's: working as a doctor in London (at University College Hospital). Currently (2025): lives in Birmingham UK, works at the Children's Hospital as a Paediatric Surgeon.
• Raul Gonzalez, Spring '03 -- emulsion glasses
  B.A. in chemistry from Emory, May '04. M.D. from Medical College of Georgia, 2008. Resident at Emory in pathology (2009-2012), then fellowship at Vanderbilt (2012-2013). Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester (2014-18). Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Director of Gastrointestinal Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2018-22). An Emory "40 under 40" recipient (2018). Since 2023, back at Emory! Currently: Professor of Pathology, Emory University Hospital.
• Tracy (Lipps) Rose, Spring '03 -- aging of colloidal glasses
  B.S. in biology, May '05. Med school at Duke, residency at BIDMC (Boston), fellowship at UNC. Currently: assistant professor and medical oncologist at UNC Chapel Hill. Married; daughters Kaya (born 7/2012), Laney (born 11/2014), and third daughter expected (3/2017).
• Martin Frank, Fall '01 thru Fall '02 -- microscopic colloidal flow
  B.S. in physics, May '05. Ph.D. in physics, Baylor University, May '11. postdoctoral fellowship at U Virginia / working at Fermilab. Currently: associate professor at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL (started Fall 2016; tenure granted 2022). Eric, Martin, and Martin's wife Mary got together for pizza near Fermilab in June 2011: picture 1, picture 2. Daughter Claire was born January 2012, second daughter Madeleine born in 2013, son Paul March 2015, second son Benjamin born April 2016.
• Gabriel Charvat, Summer '02 -- size-changing colloids
  M.S. in physics from Emory, May '04. M.S. in finance/non-profit finance from Georgia State, 2009. Currently: financial analyst at Equifax.
• Bayard Bavetta, Spring/Summer '02 -- hard disk simulations
  B.S. in CS from Emory, May '02; M.S. in CS from Emory, Aug '03; PhD in computer engineering from UF, '05.
• Charlotte Hollinger, Summer '02 -- emulsion glasses
  
  B.S. in chemistry & biology from Emory, May '03. Veterinary Medicine from U Penn 2008. Married Sean in 2010. In March 2011 they had two handicapped dogs, two crazy cats, and a couple of reptiles; by February 2016 it was three cats and one gecko. Daughter Lorelei born January 2018. Currently: veterinary pathologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.
• Meredith McTernan, Summer/Fall '01 -- bumpy walls, binary glasses
  B.S. in physics from Emory, May '02. Currently: VP Publisher Ad Solutions at Roku Inc. (Chicago, IL)
• Andrew Levitt, Summer '01 -- poking colloidal glasses
  
  B.S. in physics from U of Toronto, Nov. '03. After graduation, worked as engineer in Montreal, then Tuscon, then San Francisco. MS in green energy from U Delaware 2012. Two kids. Currently: Philadelphia, PA, Senior consultant with The Brattle Group. Andrew's LinkedIn page.