#  Former postdocs 

 



  [### Rees F. Garmann

 ](/people/rees-f-garmann) <garmann@seas.harvard.edu>Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 Rees was a postdoctoral researcher who studied how viruses package and release their genomes. He developed methods to track these processes in real time. Rees has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from UCLA, where he worked under Bill Gelbart and Chuck Knobler. 

 

 

      ![img_0392.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/img_0392_2.jpg?itok=LsTBkMaC) 

 

 

 

   [### İrep Gözen

 ](/people/irep-gozen) <irep@seas.harvard.edu>Former postdoctoral researcher

 

 

 Irep Gözen was a postdoctoral researcher who studied artificial cells and active systems. She received her PhD in 2013 from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, where she worked with surface-adhered vesicles to mimic cellular migration, in... 

 

 

      ![Irep](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/gozen.jpg?itok=yqIoTWfT) 

 

 

 

   [### Viva R. Horowitz

 ](/people/viva-horowitz) <viva@physics.harvard.edu>Former postdoctoral researcher

 

 

 Viva was a postdoctoral fellow in Physics who worked on building dynamic artificial cells from the bottom up. Her work explored how to understand cellular processes, particularly intracellular transport, at a physical level by building simple, well... 

 

 

      ![Viva R. Horowitz](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/2013_horowitz.png?itok=4n5IHPo7) 

 

 

 

   [### Daniel Kunz

 ](/people/daniel-kunz)Former postdoctoral researcher

 

 

 Daniel was a postdoctoral researcher working on characterization of colloidal and emulsion systems. 

 

 

      ![Daniel Kunz](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/danielkunz.jpg?itok=8ujhaKAO) 

 

 

 

   [### Kosta Ladavac 

 ](/people/kosta-ladavac)Former research associate

 

 

 Kosta was a research associate working on polymer foams. 

 

 

      ![Kosta Ladavac](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/kosta.jpg?itok=AMgXsjA1) 

 

 

 

   [### Yoav Lahini

 ](/people/yoav-lahini) <lahini@physics.harvard.edu>Former postdoctoral fellow

 

 

 Yoav was a postdoctoral fellow who studied the self-assembly and disassembly dynamics of viruses and the nature of interactions between nanoparticles using ultra-sensitive optical methods. Yoav earned his PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel... 

 

 

      ![Yoav](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/yoav.jpg?itok=NnA2McC2) 

 

 

 

   [### Brian Leahy

 ](/people/brian-leahy)

 Brian was a postdoctoral researcher working on holographic microscopy for characterizing colloidal and living systems. 

 

 

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   [### Manhee Lee

 ](/people/manhee-lee)Former postdoctoral researcher

 

 

 Manhee was a postdoctoral researcher working on microfluidic devices for colloidal assembly. 

 

 

      ![Manhee Lee](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/manhee_lee_cropped.jpg?itok=niRSxmRN) 

 

 

 

   [### Samaneh Mashaghi

 ](/people/samaneh-mashaghi) <smashaghi@g.harvard.edu>Former postdoctoral researcher

 

 

 Samaneh was a postdoctoral researcher working on the self-assembly of nanowires. 

 

 

      ![Samaneh](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/samaneh.jpg?itok=MVtpQ_Ub) 

 

 

 

   [### Guangnan Meng

 ](/people/guangnan-meng)Former research associate

 

 

 Guangnan was a research associate in the lab. He worked on self-assembly of colloidal particles in finite-sized systems (clusters) and on spheres. 

 

 

      ![Guangnan](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/guangnan.png?itok=fOH_nMOk) 

 

 

 

   [### Danai Montalvan

 ](/people/danai-montalvan) <dmontalvan@seas.harvard.edu>Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 Danai was a postdoc working on synthesis and characterization of artificial cells. 

 

 

      ![danai](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/20180327_172257.jpg?itok=K5By9dwM) 

 

 

 

   [### Jin-Gyu Park

 ](/people/jin-gyu-park)Former research associate

 

 

 Jin-Gyu was a research associate who studied structural colors made through self-assembly of colloidal particles. He received his BS (1995) and MS (1997) in the Department of Industrial Chemistry engineering from Hanyang University in 2002. He then worked... 

 

 

      ![Jin-Gyu](/sites/g/files/omnuum4256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/manoharan/files/img_1952.jpg?itok=imMLGZb5) 

 

 

 

  

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