We are driven by curiosity and the desire to unravel the complexities of transport phenomena in dynamic and heterogeneous environments. Our work bridges physics, biology, geosciences, and engineering, seeking to address fundamental and applied questions across diverse systems with implications for environmental sustainability, water and energy resources, climate resilience, and human health.
Our current research focuses on three main areas:
- The interplay of bacteria, biofilms, and colloids/microplastics in soil and oceanic systems, with implications for human health, global element cycling, soil health, contaminant transport, and ecosystem stability.
- Transport phenomena in biological networks, exploring how flow and structure interact to shape self-organized transport in decentralized systems like vascular networks and microbial communities.
- The influence of oceanic eddies on the evolution of sea ice floes and microplastics, shedding light on critical processes affecting marine environments and global climate dynamics.
To tackle these challenges and gain insight into their underlying physics, we adopt an interdisciplinary approach that combines microfluidic and table-top experiments, numerical simulations, and theoretical modeling. We invite you to explore our research and discover how transport phenomena shape the natural and engineered world.
We organize a weekly seminar series on soft, fluid, living matter at Yale (link).