Weeks Lab People

People:

Cong	Cory	Julian	Yonglun
Nisha	Mia	Steven	Eric

For email address in table below, replace / with @.

Name	Current project	Phone (404)	Office	Email
Cong Cao (grad student)	aging, rheology	727-8592	307	cong.cao / emory.edu
Cory Donofrio (grad student)	simulations of glass transition	727-7042	MSC W205B	cjdonof / emory.edu
Julian Freeman (technician)	random close packing	727-7105	350B	jofreem / emory.edu
Yonglun Jiang (grad student)	emulsions	712-8669	360A	yonglun.jiang / emory.edu
Nisha Lama (grad student)	2D colloidal phases	712-8669	350A	nisha.lama / emory.edu
Mia Morrell (undergrad)	clogging	712-8669	350A	mia.morrell / emory.edu
Steven Rhodes (undergrad)	slicing	712-8669	350B	steven.rhodes3 / emory.edu
Eric Weeks (tall person)	writing papers & teaching	727-4479	309	erweeks / emory.edu

Current Collaborators:

• Kari Dalnoki-Veress & Solomon Barkley at McMaster University
• William Ducker & Yow-Ren Chang at Virginia Tech
• David Dunlap, Laura Finzi, & Daniel Kovari at Emory (physics)
• Scott Franklin & Sean Peterson at RIT
• James Kindt & Peiyao Wu at Emory (chemistry)
• Craig Maloney at Northeastern University and Larry Wasserman at Carnegie Mellon
• Rosario Moctezuma (Univ. San Luis Potosi) and Fernando Donado (Univ. Hidalgo)
• Andrew Neish & Alexandra Wolfarth at Emory (pathology)
• Gleb Oshanin at CNRS/LPTMC Paris
• Wilson Poon & Alex McVey at Univ. Edinburgh
• Francesco Sciortino at Sapienza Univ. di Roma
• Perla Viveros at the Autonomous Univ. of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico
• Yujie Wang at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Roseanna Zia & Christian Aponte at Stanford (previously Cornell)

Recent Past Collaborators:

• Gustavo Appignanesi & J. Ariel Rodriguez Fris at Univ. Nacional del Sur, Argentina (2018)
• Colm Kelleher & Paul Chaikin at NYU (2017)
• Yonggang Ke & Huiling Jiang at Emory/Georgia Tech (Biomedical Engineering) (2016)
• John Crocker at the University of Pennsylvania (2015)
• Khalid Salaita & Kevin Yehl at Emory (Chemistry) (2015)
• Victor Breedveld & Jun Sato at Georgia Tech (2015)
• Ted Brzinski at Haverford College (2015)
• Klebert Feitosa at James Madison University (2015)
• Piotr Habdas at St. Joseph's University (2013)
• Paddy Royall at Univ. Bristol (2013)
• Dave Pine and Mark Elsesser at NYU (2012)
• Peter Schiffer & Igor Veretennikov at Yale & Notre Dame, respectively (2011)
• Arjun Yodh, Zexin Zhang, & Peter Yunker at U Penn (2010)

Former Lab Members:

• Aviva Young, July '18 -- sizing colloidal particles
  Currently: finishing high school.
• Yijun Dong, Fall '16 - Spring '18 -- 2D colloidal phases
  B.S. in applied math and physics, May '18. Currently: Fall '18 will be in graduate school in applied math at UT-Austin.
• Rachel Tao, Fall '17 - Spring '18 -- building rheoscope
  Currently: undergraduate student at Emory
• Dana Harvey, Spring '18 -- colloidal clogging
  Currently: earning his PhD in Justin Burton's lab
• Stefan Zotovic, Fall '16 - Fall '17 -- confined colloidal suspensions
  Currently: study abroad in London.
• Pan Dong, Summer '17 - Fall '17 -- clogging in tubes
  Currently: finishing undergrad degree at Nankai University.
• Keely Criddle, Spring '16 - Summer '17 -- porous media flow, free energy landscapes
  Currently: teaching at Episcopal School of Baton Rouge.
• Kellianne Kornick, Summer '17 -- microrheology
  Currently: undergrad at Rochester Institute of Technology, working with George Thurston, Moumita Das, and Scott Franklin.
• Haoran Wang, Fall '15 - Spring '17 -- clogging, Pickering emulsions
  B.S. in physics, May '17. Honors thesis. Currently: Fall '17 will start a M.S. degree in computer science with a focus on machine learning, at UCLA.
• Anika Tahsin, Spring '17 -- clogging & flow
  Currently: at Georgia State University in an interdisciplinary MS program with a concentration in biomedical enterprise.
• Skanda Vivek, Fall '11 - Fall '16 -- interfacial microrheology, 2D glasses
  Ph.D. in physics, December '16. Dissertation. Currently: postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech with Peter Yunker
• Xin Du, Spring '11 - Summer '16 -- emulsions, energy landscapes
  Ph.D. in physics, December '16. Dissertation. Currently: assistant professor in physics at Aquinas College
• Carlos Orellana, Fall '13 - Summer '16, Summer '17-Fall '17 -- emulsions, diffusion in confinement
  Currently: in Chile
• Xia Hong, Spring '10 - Spring '16 -- emulsions
  Ph.D. in physics, May '17. Dissertation. Currently: Business analytics associate at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)
• Ariana Rahgozar, Fall '15 - Spring '16 -- simulations of glass transition
  Currently: finishing the Emory/Georgia Tech 3/2 program (music & engineering)
• Janna Lowensohn, Summer '14 - Spring '15 -- emulsions
  B.A. in physics, May '15. Worked in Burton lab for a year. Currently: Graduate student at Brandeis.
• Moyo Odunsi, Spring '13 - Spring '15 -- colloidal glasses, aging
  B.A. in physics, May '15. Currently: Working for Accenture in San Antonio. Heading for CUNY for physics graduate school in Fall 2017.
• Xiaolei Ma, Fall '14 -- emulsions
  Currently: working in Burton lab
• Jacqueline Holland, Summer '14 -- particle sizing
  Currently: finishing high school
• Michael Thees, Summer '14 -- colloidal crystals
  Currently: working in Roth lab
• Rui Wu, Spring '12 - Spring '14 -- colloidal glass transition, emulsions.
  B.S. in physics, May '14. Honors thesis. Worked for a year in Justin Burton's lab at Emory. NYU for physics graduate school Fall 2015 - present.
• Max Perchak, Spring '13 - Spring '14 -- colloidal crystals
  B.S. in physics, May '14. Worked as a business analyst for Ernst & Young (in Atlanta area). Currently: Working as a data modeling analyst at Geico (in Washington DC).
• Xinru Huang, Fall '13 -- aging
  Currently: working in Roth lab
• Fayzan Rab, Fall '12 - Summer '13 -- microrheology
  B.A. in physics, May '13. Worked at Google after graduation through July 2017. Currently: Employed at Mindstrong.
• Kelsey Hattam, Fall '10 and Fall '12 -- random close packing
  M.S. in physics, Dec '13 (from Roth lab). Master's thesis. Currently: ?
• Zuzana Hnyluchova, Fall '12 -- interfacial microrheology
  Currently: chemistry graduate student at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.
• James Sebel, late Spring '10 - Summer '12 -- interfacial microrheology
  B.A. in physics, December '11. Copy of honors thesis. J.D., May 2015, Harvard University. Currently: lawyer working at a patent law firm in Boston.
• Ken Desmond, Summer '06 - Spring '12 -- microrheology, rcp, emulsions
  Ph.D. in physics, May '12. Dissertation, publicity. Postdoctoral fellow with Megan Valentine at UC-Santa Barbara. Currently: working at ExxonMobil.
• Nabiha Saklayen, Summer '09 - Spring '12 -- confined glass transition, rotational diffusion
  B.S. in physics, May '12. Honors thesis. Ph.D. in physics, Harvard University, May '17 (Eric Mazur's lab). Writer on Medium.com. Currently: CEO/co-founder of Cellino Biotech, which won a startup challenge (also this link). Named to MIT Technology Review's 35 under 35 in 2018.
• David Kilgore, Spring '10 - Spring '12 -- colloidal rods
  B.S. in physics, May '12. M.S. in electrical engineering, Georgia Tech, 2013. Currently: PV engineer at Ciena in Alpharetta, GA.
• Gary Hunter, Fall '06 - Spring '12 -- confined glass transition, colloidal gels
  Ph.D. in physics, May '12. Postdoctoral fellow at NYU with Paul Chaikin 2012-2015. Currently: at ExxonMobil.
• Thibaut Divoux , Fall '11 - Spring '12 -- interfacial microrheology
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: heading for a job at CNRS-Bordeaux
• Meghan Kohne, Fall '11 -- emulsions
  Currently: PhD student in Warncke lab
• Kazem Edmond, Summer '06 - Summer '11 -- confined glass transition, rotational diffusion, movie, dissertation.
  Ph.D. in physics, August '11. Postdoc at NYU with David Pine, 9/11-9/14. Currently: postdoctoral fellow at University of Oxford, working with Roel Dullens.
• Dandan Chen , Summer '06 - Summer '11 -- sheared suspensions, quasi-2D emulsions
  Ph.D. in physics, December '10. Copy of dissertation abstract. Currently: working at Soochow University
• Gopal Subedi, Summer '10 - Summer '11 -- interfacial microrheology.
  Former lab technician in the Weeks lab. M.S. in medical physics from Perdue, 2014. Currently: medical physicist at St. Anthony's Medical Center near St. Louis, MO; to be renamed Mercy Hospital South in October 2018 due to a merger.
• Daniel Real, Summer '06; Spring '10 - Spring '11 -- Brownian motion
  B.S. in physics, May '11; honors thesis. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke, Dec '15. Currently: Advanced mechanical engineer at Southern Research, Raleigh-Durham area, NC
• Paul Martin, Spring '10, Fall '10 - Spring '11 -- interfacial microrheology
  B.S. in physics, May '11. Currently: systems engineer at Epic, Madison, WI
• Laura (Golick) Gray, Summer '09 - Spring '10 -- emulsions
  Ph.D. in physics, May '14. Currently: finishing up in the Roth lab, heading to Princeton in September 2015 to work with Rodney Priestley and Cliff Brangwynne.
• Justin Pye, Spring '10 -- soap films
  Ph.D. in physics, May '14. Currently: postdoctoral fellow in the Burton lab
• Rei Kurita, Fall '07 - Fall '09 -- fragility simulations, rcp experiments
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: Associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. First son Yu born late 2012, second son Ko born late 2016.
• Marquise Hopson, Summer '09 -- soap films
  B.S. in biochemistry, Vassar, May '10. Currently: George Washington medical school.
• Jenn Lynch, Spring '07 - early Summer '09 -- aging in colloidal glasses
  B.S. in physics, May '09. Ph.D. in physics, University of Pennsylvania, '14. M.D., NYU School of Medicine, '17. Currently: residency at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
• Zach Nadler, Fall '08 - early Summer '09 -- 2D colloidal phases
  B.S. in physics, May '09. Currently: grad school at UC-Santa Cruz '09-'10; leave of absence '11, working in Pittsburgh
• James Davidheiser, Summer '08 - Spring '09 -- chaotic fluid flows; dissertation
  Ph.D. in physics, May '09. Currently: in San Francisco, working at Asana as a Data Scientist
• Joaquim Clara-Rahola, Spring '07 - Spring '09 -- sheared emulsions
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: working at Univ. of Almeria and also partly affiliated with Alberto Fernandez-Nieves at Georgia Tech. Founder: Eikhonal.
• Vikram Prasad, Fall '04 - Winter '08/09 -- 2D colloidal systems
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: working for Dow Chemical Company, Midlands, Michigan
• Gianguido Cianci, Fall '01 - Summer '08 -- magbeads, aging
  Ph.D. in physics, May '08. Currently: in Chicago, research assistant profoessor with T. J. Hope at Northwestern U
• Pearl Young, Fall '07 - Summer '08 -- emulsions
  B.S. in Physics, May '10; M.A. in History, May '10. Taught history at Kennesaw State. Currently at UNC Chapel Hill working toward her Ph.D.
• Jakub Otwinowski, Fall '07 - Spring '08 -- diffusion and glass transition
  Ph.D. in Physics, Aug '12, with Ilya Nemenman and Stefan Boettcher. Currently: postdoctoral fellow at UPenn
• Cara Hageman, Fall '07 - Spring '08 -- 2D colloidal phases
  B.A. in physics from Emory, Dec. 2009. Currently: teaching in Salamanca, Spain
• Tiffany Soo, Spring '07 - Spring '08 -- colloidal gels
  B.B.A., May '10. Currently: Senior Associate, Financial Accounting Advisory Services at EY (New York City).
• Denis Semwogerere, Spring '04 - Summer '07 -- flowing colloids
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: in Toronto, data analyst for the Shopping Channel
• Scott Franklin, Summer '06 - Summer '07 -- colloidal glass transition
  Sabbatical visitor to the lab. Currently: Professor of Physics at RIT, Director of RIT's Center for Advancing Science/Math Teaching, Learning and Evaluation (CASTLE)
• Takayuki Narumi, Summer '07 -- colloidal glass transition
  Ph.D. in physics from Tohoku Univ., 2010. Postdoctoral fellow at Kyushu Univ., April 2010-March 2013; postdoctoral fellow at Kwansei Gakuin Univ., April 2013-March 2014. Currently: lecturer at Yamaguchi University. Photo of Takayuki and son Yutaro, early 2015.
• Lov Goel, Spring '06 - Spring '07 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.A. in physics, May '07. J.D., UC Davis, May '10; passed California bar July 2010. Patent lawyer in California, 2010-2014. Currently: vice president at Green Polymeric Materials, Inc.
• Jin Ha Kim, Spring '06 - Fall '06 -- hydraulic jump & biopolymer gels
  Last seen: in Atlanta
• Cortney Crane, Fall '05 - Summer '06 -- emulsion glasses
  B.S. in physics, May '08. Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Univ. of Virginia, 2013. Fall '06 in Australia. Currently: Senior Associate, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates in Atlanta.
• Jessica Hernandez-Guzman, Fall '05 & Spring '06 -- colloidal crystals
  Ph.D. in physics, Aug '10 (Warncke lab -- dissertation). Currently: teaching physics and math at Adams State College, Alamoso, CO
• Tsondue Samphel, Summer '03 thru Fall '03, Spring '05 thru Spring '06 -- colloidal gels
  B.S. in physics, May '06. Currently: grad school at Emory ILA; famous translator
• Ben Bluth, Fall '04 thru Spring '06 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.A. in physics from Emory, May '07. MD from UCLA, June '11. Currently: starting orthopedic residency at UCLA, 2011-2016; summer '06 in Spain
• Sabrina (Rainwater) David, Fall '05 -- binary colloidal glasses
  B.S. in math from Emory, May '07. Ph.D. in applied math, U of Maryland, December '12. Postdoctoral fellow at NRL (Monterey, California), 2012-2015. Son Arthur born 2013. Currently: math teacher in Ocala, FL (high school & also a dual enrollment program)
• Ted Brzinski, Fall '02 thru Summer '05 -- emulsion glasses
  B.S. in physics, May '05. Ph.D. in physics, University of Pennsylvania, Spring '13. Daughter Juniper born August 2015. Postdoctoral fellow at NC State with Karen Daniels, 2013-16. Currently: assistant professor of physics at Haverford, Fall 2016 - present.
• Jason Hay, Spring '05 thru Summer '05 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.S. in physics, Georgia Tech, Dec '04. M.S. degree in science policy from George Washington Univ. Currently: consultant for The Tauri Group.
• Carrie Nugent, Summer '04 & Summer '05 -- confined colloidal glasses
  B.S. in physics, Bucknell Univ., May '05. Ph.D. in Geophysics & Space Physics, UCLA, Spring '13. See her TED talk on finding asteroids. Cool cartoon video she wrote about finding the first asteroid. Related book she wrote. Worked at NASA's JPL (CalTech) as a postdoctoral researcher with Amy Mainzer. Fall 2018: starting as faculty at Olin College.
• Joe Saldana, Fall '04 & Spring '05 -- confined colloidal glasses
  Last seen: in Atlanta
• Kevin Welsher, Fall '04 & Spring '05 -- colloidal crystals
  B.S. in chemistry & B.A. in physics, May '05. Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford, Aug '10. Currently: Assistant professor of chemistry at Duke (as of July 2015).
• Brad Andrews, Summer '04 thru Fall '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in secondary education from UIC. Currently: teaching physics and chemistry in Chicago suburbs in Fall 2009
• Rachel Courtland, Summer '01 thru Summer '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in physics, August '04. M.S. in Science Communication, UC-Santa Cruz, 2007. Was intern journalist at Nature Spring '08. Currently: working for IEEE Spectrum in NYC.
• Susannah (Cooke) Lomant, Summer '03 & Summer '04 -- colloids and jamming
  Currently: Teaching at Georgia Perimeter College
• Piotr Habdas, Dec '01 thru Summer '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  Former postdoctoral fellow. Currently: Associate professor of physics at St. Joseph's University
• Doug Anderson, Summer/Fall '01 & Summer '03 thru Summer '04 -- microscopic colloidal flow
  
  B.A. in physics from Emory, May '03. MA in classics from UGA '07. MA in Religion from the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Boston) (date?). Married Dorcas November 2010 (picture). Currently: living in Singapore teaching English
• David Schaar, Summer '02 - Spring '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in physics from Emory, Dec '03. Married Raja 2006, they now have two cute kids, Daniel and Nuri. Daniel Schaar and Marion Weeks are the same age and enjoyed playing together for their first few years. Dave taught physics at Decatur High School through Spring 2016. Currently: teaching science at Science Leadership Academy (high school) in Philadelphia.
• Amy Franciscovich, Spring '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.S. in chemistry from Emory, Dec '06. M.D. from Harvard Medical School, May '13. Pediatrics resident at Johns Hopkins 2013-2016. Currently: attending physician at St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• Christina Wallace, Spring '03 thru Summer '03 -- aging of colloidal glasses
  B.A. in theater studies & math, May '05. MBA, Harvard Business School, May '10. Consultant in Washington, DC for a a year. Launched a startup company in NYC, Quincy Apparel. Currently: founding director of BridgeUp: STEM at the American Museum of Natural History. She mentioned the lab in an interview she gave Huffington Post! Forte Foundation article she wrote about going to business school.
• Shanshan Wu, Fall '02 thru Summer '03 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in physics from Emory, July 2003. Ph.D. in physics from Brown, 2008. Currently: in China, senior manager/acting principal at Roland Berger, ex-McKinsey.
• Hetal Patel, Summer '01 thru Spring '03 -- bumpy walls
  B.A. in chemistry & history from Emory, May '03. M.D. from St. George's Univ., 2010. Currently: working as a doctor in London (at University College Hospital)
• Raul Gonzalez, Spring '03 -- emulsion glasses
  B.A. in chemistry from Emory, May '04. M.D. from Medical College of Georgia, 2008. Resident at Emory in pathology (2009-2012), then fellowship at Vanderbilt (2012-2013). Currently: Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Rochester since 2014
• Tracy (Lipps) Rose, Spring '03 -- aging of colloidal glasses
  B.S. in biology, May '05. Med school at Duke, residency at BIDMC (Boston), fellowship at UNC. Currently: assistant professor and medical oncologist at UNC Chapel Hill. Married; daughters Kaya (born 7/2012), Laney (born 11/2014), and third daughter expected (3/2017).
• Martin Frank, Fall '01 thru Fall '02 -- microscopic colloidal flow
  B.S. in physics, May '05. Ph.D. in physics, Baylor University, May '11. postdoctoral fellowship at U Virginia / working at Fermilab. Currently: assistant professor at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL (started Fall 2016). Eric, Martin, and Martin's wife Mary got together for pizza near Fermilab in June 2011: picture 1, picture 2. Daughter Claire was born January 2012, second daughter Madeleine born in 2013, son Paul March 2015, second son Benjamin born April 2016.
• Gabriel Charvat, Summer '02 -- size-changing colloids
  M.S. in physics from Emory, May '04. M.S. in finance/non-profit finance from Georgia State, 2009. Currently: financial analyst at Equifax.
• Bayard Bavetta, Spring/Summer '02 -- hard disk simulations
  B.S. in CS from Emory, May '02; M.S. in CS from Emory, Aug '03; PhD in computer engineering from UF, '05.
• Charlotte Hollinger, Summer '02 -- emulsion glasses
  
  B.S. in chemistry & biology from Emory, May '03. Veterinary Medicine from U Penn 2008. Married Sean in 2010. In March 2011 they had two handicapped dogs, two crazy cats, and a couple of reptiles; by February 2016 it was three cats and one gecko. Daughter Lorelei born January 2018. Currently: veterinary pathologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.
• Meredith McTernan, Summer/Fall '01 -- bumpy walls, binary glasses
  B.S. in physics from Emory, May '02. Currently: online media specialist working in New York City at Criteo
• Andrew Levitt, Summer '01 -- poking colloidal glasses
  
  B.S. in physics from U of Toronto, Nov. '03. After graduation, worked as engineer in Montreal, then Tuscon, then San Francisco. MS in green energy from U Delaware. Two kids. Currently: Philadeophia, PA for an Electric Vehicle-to-Grid business initiative. Andrew's LinkedIn page.