People and Research Projects

Principal Investigator


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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
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.