PhD graduates

Those who have graduated the group with a PhD

Ron Alexander

PhD Physics 2020

Ron was a PhD student in Physics working on characterizing colloidal systems using holographic microscopy. He earned his PhD in 2020.

Anand Bala Subramaniam

PhD Applied Physics 2011

Anand was a PhD student of Howard Stone and was co-advised by Vinny. He earned his PhD in 2011.

Solomon was a PhD student in Physics. He studied the self-assembly and reorganization of colloidal clusters. He also developed experimental and computational tools to increase the amount of information obtained from digital holographic microscopy. Before...

Tim Chiang

tkchiang@g.harvard.edu

PhD Applied Physics 2023

Tim was PhD student in Applied Physics studying the mechanisms by which the RNA genome of simple viruses enables complex function. Tim received a BA in physics from Boston University and earned his PhD from Harvard in 2023.

Cyril Chomette

PhD 2015, University of Bordeaux

Cyril was a PhD student at the University of Bordeaux. He worked on chemical synthesis of 3D plasmonic clusters for metafluids, and he visited the Manoharan Lab during the summers of 2014 and 2015.

Jesse W. Collins

PhD Applied Physics 2014

Jesse was a PhD student in Applied Physics who studied self-assembly of colloidal spheres with specific interactions. He earned his PhD in 2014.

Tom Dimiduk

tdimiduk@physics.harvard.edu

PhD Physics 2016

Tom was a PhD student in Physics working on digital holographic microscopy and Bayesian approaches to data analysis. He received his B.S. in Engineering Physics in 2008 from Cornell University, where he worked with Prof. Warren Zipfel on applications of...

Jerome Fung

PhD Physics 2013

Jerome was a PhD student in Physics. His research involved characterizing and understanding the 3D dynamics of colloidal systems with holographic microscopy. He earned his PhD from Harvard in 2013.

Emily Gehrels

egehrels@seas.harvard.edu

PhD Applied Physics 2018

Emily was a PhD student in Applied Physics studying the statistical mechanics of DNA-mediated colloidal interactions. She designed dynamic colloidal systems with precisely controlled and tunable binding strength and temperature dependence. She received...

Aaron Goldfain

agoldfain@seas.harvard.edu

PhD Applied Physics

Aaron was a PhD student in Applied Physics who studied the self-assembly of viruses using interferometric scattering microscopy and other interferometric techniques. He received his B.A. in physics and mathematics in 2012 from the University of Colorado...

Victoria Hwang

vhwang@g.harvard.edu

PhD Applied Physics 2020

Victoria was PhD student in Applied Physics studying the self-assembly of amorphous colloidal photonic materials. She focused on designing novel techniques for creating structurally-colored films, with an emphasis on expanding the range of colors and...