Principal Investigator
Gerald G. Fuller (ggf@)
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Postdoctoral Researchers
Suraj Borkar (borkar@)
Palash Dhara (pdhara@)
Chenxian Xu (cxu41@)
Ekta Sharma (esharma@)
Graduate Students
Ada Undieh (aundieh@)
John Belanger (jb1891@)
Maggie Braunreuther (marbraun@)
Audrey Shih (ashih@)
Cody Moose (cmoose@)
Undergraduate Students
Stella Chung (sjc143@)
**All email accounts are @stanford.edu unless otherwise noted.
Interns and Visiting Scholars
| Name | Education | University | Country | Project |
| Gautam Anand | High School | Rochester, MN | AI based analysis of thin film interference patterns |
| Junmo Kang | Ph.D | Samsung Electronics | South Korea | Bubble-Particle Interaction |
| Buyoung Jung | Ph.D | SEMES | South Korea | Behavior of Bubble, Particle and Substrate |
| Jennifer Finkelstein | High School | Phillips Exeter Academy | U.S.A. | Morphological Transformations in Desiccating Sessile Droplets |
| Elise Hadidi | High School | Redwood City, California | Contact Angle Analysis Optimization with MATLAB |
| Arnuv Tandon | High School | Santa Clara, California | Python based GUI’s for processing hyperspectral interferograms |
| Isabela Soares | PhD | Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio | Brazil | Effects of co-adsorption of asphaltenes and stearic acids |
| Ao Chen | Undergraduate | Zhejiang University | China | Rayleigh Taylor instabilities in polymer solutions |
| Manas Tiwari | High School | San Jose, California | Thickness reconstruction from interferograms using Machine Learning |
| Jun Min Kim | High School | South Korea | TIFANY (Tear InterFerence ANalYsis) |
| Aaron Lipp | High School | Redwood City, California | Rayleigh Taylor instabilities in polymer solutions |
| Satyam Anand | Undergraduate | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | India | Dilatational rheology of complex liquid-liquid interfaces |
| Jovina Vaswani | Undergraduate | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | India | Shear and compression of complex liquid-liquid interfaces |
| Patrick Negulescu | Undergraduate | University of California, Berkeley | U.S.A. | Adsorption and aggregation of therapeutic antibodies at oil-water interfaces |
| Alexandra Lu | Undergraduate | University of California, Berkeley | U.S.A. | Spontaneous Emulsification |
| Milad Kamkar | Ph.D. | University of Calgary | Canada | Interfacial rheology and coalescence study of emulsions |
| Agnieszka Czakaj | Ph.D. | Polish Academy of Sciences | Poland | Interfacial rheology and coalescence study of foams stabilized by nanoparticles |
| Yasunori Sato | Ph.D. | Nagaoka University of Technology | Japan | Rheology, Adhesion, and Surface Science Properties of Lubricin |
| Yukun Yang | Undergraduate | Columbia University | U.S.A. | Interaction of Asphaltenes Against Water/Oil Interfaces |
| Anna Selzer | Undergraduate | University of Leipzig | Germany | Lubrication mechanism of glycosylated proteins on corneal epithelial cells |
| Meiirbek Islamov | M.Sc. | Columbia University | U.S.A. | Evaporation driven instabilities in aqueous polymer solutions |
| Nishant Kumar Singhal | High School | Singapore | Rheology of cell monolayers |
| Alex Hadidi | High School | Redwood City, California | Solutocapillary flows |
| Emmanuel Ramirez | High School | Sunnyvale, California | Bioremediation and Spontaneous Emulsification |
| Zachary James Ernst | High School | Aledo, Texas | Drainage of thin films on contact lenses |
| Anna Sentmanat | High School | Austin, Texas | Antibody-surfactant interactions at air-water interfaces |
| John Sentmanat | Undergraduate | Texas A&M University | U.S.A. | Tear film dynamics of contact lenses |
| Yue Xu | M.Sc. | ESPCI Paris | France | Spontaneous emulsification and bioremediation – applications in oil recovery |
| Dania Khan | Undergraduate | Foothill College | U.S.A. | Asphaltene aggregation at oil-water interfaces |
| Hunter North | High School | Palo Alto, CA | Marangoni Flows |
| Yidi Tai | M.Sc. | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | Shape evolution of miscible fluids |
| Luca Naef | M.Sc. | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | Development of electromagnetic device for measurement of cellular biomechanical properties |
| Severin Bahman | M.Sc. | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | Modelling of the tear film |
| J.D. Medlin | High School | Los Altos Hills, CA | Shape evolution of Boger fluids in miscible environments |
| Finn Eric Banks | Undergraduate | Johns Hopkins University | U.S.A. | Optimization and documentation of the software that automates the generation of thickness profiles using interferometry |
| Alex Hadidi | High School | Redwood City, CA | Asphaltene aggregation at oil-water interfaces and nanoparticles at oil/water interface |
| Lesley Melissa Avila Rojas | High School | San Mateo, CA | Optimizing artificial tear solution |
| Christopher A. Archer | High School | Ithaca, NY | Asphaltene aggregation at oil-water interfaces and nanoparticles at oil/water interface |
| Andrei Bielay | High School | Victoria, B.C | Canada | Quantifying solutocapillary Marangoni flows in lubricants |
| Jeffrey J. de Groot | High School | Houston, TX | Asphaltene aggregation at oil-water interfaces and nanoparticles at oil/water interface |
| Bruce Andrew Kubicka | High School | Portola Valley, CA | Bubble dynamics of worm-like micellar solutions |
| Nikhil Sethia | Undergraduate | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | India | Co-adsorption of therapeutic proteins and surfactants at air-water interfaces |
| Maximilian Enthoven | M.Sc. | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | Development of image processing algorithms for automation of cell analysis and tear film thickness computation |
| Tzu-En Lin | M.S. | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland | Asphaltene aggregation at oil-water interfaces and nanoparticles at oil/water interface |
| Stephanie de Franca Couto Martins | High School | Rio De Janeiro | Brazil | Asphaltene aggregation at oil-water interfaces. |
| Sophie Lohmann | M.Sc. | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | Development of an in vivo system for spatio-temporal characterization of tear film thickness |
| Simran Kaur | M.S. | Purdue University | U.S.A. | Rheological Properties of Protein Emulsifiers |
| Isabele Moreira | Undergraduate | Universidade Federal do Paraná | Brazil | Asphaltene aggregation at oil-water interfaces. |
| Brendan Huang | High School | Austin, TX | Spreading of miscible liquids. |
| Hunter North | High School | Palo Alto, CA | Drainage of thin films. |
| Beatrice Loppinet | High School | Heraklion, Greece | Drainage of thin films on contact lenses. |
| Bruce Andrew Kubicka | High School | Portola Valley, CA | Drainage of thin films & design of tensiometer. |
| Mathilde Lettinga | High School | Aachen, Germany | Impinging jet project. |
| Cole Gillespie | High School | Menlo Park, CA | Impinging jet project. |
| Maria Consiglia Merola | Ph.D. | Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas – Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser | Greece |
Study of asphaltene aggregation at an oil/water interface and its inhibition of coalescence. |
| Tatiana Naccache Rochinha | Undergraduate | Pontificia Universidade Catolica – Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Evolution of miscible sessile and pendant drops and miscible jets. |
| Yanjun Ren | Ph.D. | China University of Petroleum (Beijing) | China | Rheological transition and emulsive stability of adsorbed pH-responsive surfactant layers at oil-water interface. |
| Clémence Abriat | M.S. | Ecole Polytéchnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | Interfacial rheology of bacterial biofilms. |
| Anand Das | Undergraduate | University of Washington | U.S.A. | Software development to improve control of experimental equipment. |
| Es-Sbai Mohamed | M.S. | Chimie ParisTech – PSL Research University | France | Rheological properties of hydrates forming at the water-hydrocarbon interface. |
| Christian McCullough | High School | Phoenix, AZ | Plateau–Rayleigh instability and dancing droplets. |
| Cifeng Fang | Ph.D. | University of Washington | U.S.A. | Study of endothelial cell response to profiled wall shear stress. |
| Patrick Negulescu | High School | Santa Clara, CA | Lysozyme adsorption on contact lenses. |
| Brian Friedenberg | High School | San Diego, CA | Impinging jet project. |
| J.D. Medlin | High School | Los Altos Hills, CA | Drainage of thin films. |
| Daniel Tervoort | High School | Zurich, Switzerland | Stability of therapeutic proteins. |
| Jean Sébastien Buff | M.S. | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | Stability of therapeutic proteins. |
| Shristi Singh | Undergraduate | National Institute of Technology – Warangal | India | Spreading of miscible sessile drops. |
| Tomás E. Chávez-Miyauchi | Ph.D. | Reservoir Engineering Research Institute (RERI) | U.S.A. | Crude oil – water interfacial rheology in waterflooding performance. |
| Vineeth Chandran Suja | M.S. | École Polytechnique | France | Drainage of thin films. |
| Daniele Tammaro | Ph.D. | Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli Federico II | Italy | Drainage of thin films. |
| Prof. Marcio Nele | Ph.D. | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Polymers and emulsions. |
| Javier Tajuelo | Ph.D. | UNED | Spain | High sensitivity interfacial rheology. |
| Mithya Jayakumar | Undergraduate | University of California,Davis | U.S.A. | Spreading of miscible drops. |
| Marco A Alvarez V | Ph.D. | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Spain | Drainage of thin films (CFD simulation) |
| Joannes Vermant | High School | Meise, Belgium | Experiments on tear film drainage |
| Julius Laeuger | High School | Stuttgart, Germany | Dilatational rheology of interfaces |
| Gian Carlo Maffettone | High School | Naples, Italy | Experiments on miscible liquid drops. |
| Adela Palominos | High School | California, U.S.A. | Biofilms project |
| Chew Chai | Undergraduate | M.I.T. | U.S.A. | Drainage/Dewetting of tear film on contact lenses. |
| Eline Hermans | Ph.D. | KU Leuven | Belgium | Drainage of lung surfactant films. |
| Caroline Balemans | M.S. | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands | Dewetting of tear film on contact lenses. |
| Caroline Giacomin | Undergraduate | McGill University | Canada | Drainage/Dewetting of tear film on contact lenses. |
| Rui Chang | Undergraduate | Tsinghua University | China | Dewetting of corneal cell coated surfaces. |
| Eric Zhao | High School | Hong Kong | Droplet movement due to Marangoni Stresses. |
| Zoubida Ouazzani | M.S. | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland | Interfacial rheology of Biofilms. |
| Patrick Ruhs | Ph.D. | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | Interfacial rheology of Biofilms. |
| Tom Verwijlen | Ph.D. | KU Leuven | Belgium | Impinging Jet flow Analysis and Simulations. |
| Marie Vermant | High School | Belgium | Interfacial stability of thin films. |
| David Giacomin | High School | U.S.A. | Rinsing flows by an impinging jet. |
| Alison Fanton | High School | U.S.A. | Interfacial rheology of biofilms. |