PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Lisa Manning
Kenan Professor of Physics
Director, BioInspired Institute
Email: mmanning (at) syr (dot) edu
Office: Physics Building, Room 229B
Office phone: 315.443.3920
Fax: 315.443.9103
Mailing address: Office 201 Physics Bldg
Department of Physics
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Paula C. Sanematsu

Email: pcsanema {at} syr {dot} edu
Office: Physics Building, Room 229F

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Varda Hagh

Email: vardahagh {at} uchicago.edu
Joint postdoctoral associate with Eric Corwin (U. Oregon) and Sid Nagel (U. Chicago) — located in Chicago, IL

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Cam Dennis (joint with Andrea Liu)

Sadjad Arzash ( joint with Andrea Liu, January 2022)

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Elizabeth Lawson-Keister
Email: elawsonk {at} syr {dot} edu
Office: Physics Building, Room 249

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Julia Giannini
Email: jagianni {at} syr {dot} edu
Office: Physics Building, Room 247

Kamalendu Paul

Email: kpaul02 {at} syr {dot} edu
Office: Physics Building, Room 247

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Erin McCarthy
Email: efmccart {at} syr {dot} edu

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ALUMNI

Dapeng “Max” Bi
Previous: Postdoctoral fellow in the Manning group/Syracuse Soft Matter Program
Current: Assistant professor, Northeastern
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Michael Czajkowski
Previous: Graduate research assistant Manning/Marchetti groups. Ph. D. Summer 2018.
Current: Postdoctoral associate with Zeb Rocklin at Georgia Tech

Ojan Khatib-Damavandi
Previous: Postdoctoral associate, Manning research group
Current: Data scientist, Intel

Kassidy Lundy
Previous: Undergraduate researcher in the Manning group.
Current: Graduate student, Greally Lab, Albert Einstein school of medicine

Matthias Merkel
Previous: postdoctoral researcher 2015-2018
Current: CNRS group leader, Centurti and Center for Theoretical Physics, Marseilles
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Peter Morse
Previous position: Postdoctoral associate, SU
Current position: Postdoctoral associate, Duke University

Amanda Parker
Previous: Postdoctoral associate, SU
Current: Computational Scientist, Simbiosys
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Giuseppe Passucci
Previous: Graduate researcher in the Manning group. Ph. D. Spring 2018
Current: Systems Engineer at SRC in Syracuse, New York

David Richard
Previous: Postdoctoral researcher U. Amsterdam, joint between Manning/Lerner
Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Grenoble

Sudeshna Roy
Previous: Postdoctoral Associate in the Manning group, 2019-2020
Current: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Heriot-Watt University, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK working with Prof. Raffaella Ocone on granular rheology

Preeti Sahu
Previous: Graduate student in Manning/Schwarz/Marchetti, Ph.D. Summer 2020.
Current: Postdoctoral researcher and Marie Curie Fellow at IST Austria

Ethan Stanifer
Previous: graduate student in Manning research group, Ph.D. Spring 2020.
Current: Postdoctoral researcher at U. Michigan

Daniel Sussman
Previous position: Postdoctoral associate, SU
Current position: Assistant Professor of Physics, Emory University

Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan
Previous position: Postdoctoral associate, SU
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
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Sven Wijtmans
Previous: Graduate researcher in the Manning group. Ph. D Summer 2017.
Current: Electrical Engineer/ Software Systems Analyst. at Trak Engineering, Inc. in Tallahassee, Florida

GROUP PHOTOS

Summer 2021 (Our social distance band photo)