Current members
Current members of the group
Vinothan N. Manoharan
vnm@seas.harvard.eduWagner Family Professor of Chemical Engineering
Professor of Physics
Vinny is a faculty member in SEAS and Physics at Harvard. He has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he worked with Professor David J. Pine. He did postdoctoral research with Professor John Crocker at the...
Brandon Chyi
Brandon is a Ph.D Student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology. He is interested in the interactions between physical structure and chemical composition in materials which give rise to color. Outside of lab he loves to cook and take care of his plants and...
Alexa Fein
Alexa is an undergraduate student majoring in physics. She works with Audrey on the structural color project exploring applications in plastic packaging. Alexa loves yoga and greek yogurt.
Ben Hafner
Ben is an incoming PhD student in applied physics, currently working on in-line holographic microscopy of cyanobacteria. He loves Wikipedia rabbit holes, mechanical clocks, and outdoorsy stuff.
Stefania Ketzetzi
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stefania is a postdoc studying disassembly of protein complexes and lysis of microbes. Her goal is to understand how tiny living systems destabilize and break apart, thereby laying the groundwork for a theory of biological disassembly. Her background is...
Dalilah Mostoslavsky
Dalilah is a graduate student in the Applied Physics department. She is studying interactions between scattering and absorption in structurally colored systems. Dalilah loves baking and horror movies.
Francesca Soddu
msoddu@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Francesca is a graduate student in Applied Physics. She studies viral lysis of cyanobacteria. Francesca loves horses and cheese crackers.
Angela Tang
Angela is a graduate student in Applied Physics. She works on the structural color project. Angela enjoys baking and water sports.
Kai Torrens
kai_torrens@g.harvard.eduPhD Student
Kai is a PhD student in Physics studying short-range interactions in colloidal and biological systems. Outside his experiments and calculations, Kai likes board games, going to museums, and walking outside.
Audrey von Raesfeld
avonraesfeld@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Audrey is a PhD candidate in Applied Physics whose research explores the structural color and optical properties of disordered macroporous photonic materials. A central focus of her work has been developing scalable fabrication methods that bring these...
