Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)
Current Students
| Just Graduated | Name |
Research Interest
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Advisor(s) | |
| Anderson, Grace | Polymers and Materials Design for Biotherapeutics | graceia@mit.edu | Ariel L. Furst | |
| Alfaraj, Yasmeen | Polymer Chemistry and Organic Materials: polyMOC Development |
alfarajy@mit.edu | Jeremiah A. Johnson | |
| Antilla, Sarah | Proteins/Drug delivery |
santilla@mit.edu | Bradley Pentelute | |
| Av-Ron, Sarah | Recycling of rubber and biodegradable microplastics | savron@mit.edu | Bradley D. Olsen | |
| Beech, Haley | Exploration of Molecularly Optimized Networks |
beech@mit.edu | Bradley D. Olsen | |
| Bhagchandani, Sachin | Self-assembled hydrogels for delivery of therapeutics |
sachb@mit.edu | Jeremiah A. Johnson and Robert S. Langer | |
| Carrick, Brian | Networks |
bcarrick@mit.edu | Bradley D. Olsen | |
| Cho, Yehlin | Developing Functional Biomolecules to Deliver Biotherapeutics | yehlin@mit.edu | Bradley L. Pentelute | |
| Chua, Lauren | Large Scale Simulations for (de)Polymerization and Enabling Chemistries for Degradation/Upcycling Using ML | lchua@mit.edu | Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli | |
| Church, Richard | Structurally Integrated 3-D Batteries |
rbchurch@mit.edu | John Hart | |
| Cruz, Juan Cintron | Study, Synthesis, and Applications of Polymer Networks | jcintron@mit.edu | Jeremiah A. Johnson | |
| Cunin, Camille |
TBA | ccunin@mit.edu | Aristide Gumyusenge | |
| Deiss-Yehiely, Elad |
LbL Nanoparticles for Mucus Penetration and Biofilm Disruption |
eladdy@mit.edu | Paula T. Hammond |
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| Diaco, Nicholas |
Multi-wavelength Vat Polymerization | diaco@mit.edu | A. John Hart | |
| Gordon, Collette T. | Designing Polymers with Conductive Properties for Sensing PFA’s to Heavy Metals | ctgordon@mit.edu | Timothy M. Swager | |
| Guo, Zhewen | TBA | zwg@mit.edu | Timothy M. Swager | |
| Jeang, William | Living Therapeutic Implants with Enhanced Mass Transport |
wjeang@mit.edu | Daniel G. Anderson | |
| Johnson, Alayna | Cyclic Silyl Ether Monomers as Tools for Enabling Chemical Deconstructability in Industrially-Relevant Polymers |
alaynaj@mit.edu | Jeremiah A. Johnson | |
| Johnston, Brandon | Avascular Tissue Drug Delivery |
bmjohnst@mit.edu | Paula T. Hammond | |
| Kaser, Samuel | Structure and Dynamics of Plant Cell Wall Biopolymers |
skaser@mit.edu | Mei Hong | |
| Khare, Eesha | Molecular Understanding of Metal-Coordination Mechanics Using Simulation and Experiment |
ekhare@mit.edu | Niels Holten-Andersen and Markus J. Buehler |
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| Krucker, Emily | Nonlinear Electrokinetics |
ekrucker@mit.edu | James Swan | |
| Lee, Eric | TBA | leer@mit.edu | Krystyn J. Van Vliet | |
| Lensch, Valerie | PENDING |
vlensch@mit.edu | Jeremiah A. Johnson and Laura L. Kiessling | |
| Lundberg, David | Applied PolyMOC Gels |
davidjl@mit.edu | Jeremiah A. Johnson and Zachary P. Smith | |
| Mamrol, Natalie | TBD | ndmamrol@mit.edu | Bradley D. Olsen and Gregory C. Rutledge | |
| Meacham, Rebecca | TBD | meacham@mit.edu | Julia Ortony | |
| Petrov, Artem | TBD | aipetrov@mit.eduAl | Alfredo Alexander-Katz and Gregory C. Rutledge | |
| Pryor, Mae | TBD |
mpryor@mit.edu | Paula T. Hammond | |
| Ravi, Basuhi | Investigation of environmentally sustainable and economically feasible end-of-life options for post-consumer plastic waste management |
basuhi@mit.edu | Elsa A. Olivetti | |
| Rios, Tatem | TBD | trios@mit.edu | Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli | |
| Roh, Heejung | Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), materials design and synthesis, and applications. | heejungr@mit.edu | Aristide Gumyusenge | |
| Sass, Jacob | TBA | sassj@mit.edu | Alfredo Alexander-Katz | |
| Sbalbi, Nicholas A. | TBA | nants00@mit.edu | Robert J. Macfarlane and William Tisdale | |
| Shin, Juhwan | TBA | jhshin@mit.edu | Christopher Cummins | |
| Shen, Sabrina | Exploration and design of hierarchical biomaterials and bio-inspired materials |
scshen@mit.edu | Markus J. Buehler | |
| Singhal, Avni | TBA |
avni@mit.edu | Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli | |
| Song, Jake | Mechanics and stress relaxation of networks |
jakesong@mit.edu | Gareth H. McKinley and Niels Holten-Andersen |
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| Stolberg, Michael | Polymer Electrolytes for Li-Batteries |
stolberg@mit.edu | Jeremiah A. Johnson | |
| Storme, Kayla | Design of polymers for chemical separations in applications like carbon capture, and natural gas treatment |
kstorme@mit.edu | Timothy M. Swager | |
| Sturd, Erin F. | TBA | ersturd@mit.edu | Robert J. Macfarlane and Zachary P. Smith | |
| Sun, Zehao | Self-Assembly of Janus-Type Multi-Block Bottlebrush Copolymers |
zehao@mit.edu | Jeremiah A. Johnson and Caroline A. Ross |
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| Thrasher, Carl | TBD |
cthrash@mit.edu | John Hart and Robert J. Macfarlane |
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| Wang, Chonghe |
TBD
|
chonghe@mit.edu | Xuanhe Zhao | |
| Yuan, Weize |
Designing and Application of Structured Conducting Polymer Actuator
|
w96yuan@mit.edu | Timothy M. Swager | |
| Zaragoza, Nadia |
Biomaterials for Women’s Health
|
nadz@mit.edu | Ariel L. Furst |
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Congratulations to our most recent PPSM Graduates:
Ty Christoff-Tempesta ’22
Pierre A. Colombe ’22
Yanpu He ’22
Shayna L. Hilburg
Celestine Hong ’22
Joshua M. Kubiak ’21
Margaret S. Lee ’22
Xinyue Liu ’22
Katherine Mizrahi ’22
Somesh Mohapatra ’22
Matthew Pearson ’22
Ke Qin ’22
Irina Rasid ’21
Sheryl Wang ’22
Wencong Wang ’22
Emiko Zumbro ’20
