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The mechanics of soft materials and how they accommodate large stresses and dramatic elastic instabilities provides a great framework to study problems ranging from biological interfaces to the design of responsive materials. I am interested in using elasticity, soft materials, and instabilities such as snap-buckling, crumpling, wrinkling, and folding to generate responsiveness and impact properties such as adhesion, optics, and flow at surfaces or within devices. My research on synthetic and biological membranes and how they deform and interact with fluids allows me to address important fundamental questions that lie at the interface between fluids and soft materials.

Office hours: Monday: 10:00-12:00pm, Wednesday: 10:00-12:00pm.

Year	Detail
2011	Postdoc, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
2009	Ph.D., Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2005	M.S., Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2004	B.S., Chemistry, University of New Hampshire

Course Num	Title
ESM 3054	Mech Behav Matls
ESM 2204	Mech of Deform Bodies

• Society of Engineering Science, American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, Adhesion Society