Biological and tissue mechanics
Mechanical response, growth, and shape change in biological structures.
Mechanics, geometry, and living matter.
I study how growth, geometry, and activity shape deformation and instability in soft and biological systems, using theoretical and computational approaches in continuum mechanics.
Click and drag to deform an elastic sheet. Move or drag to generate a strain field.
Research directions
Elastic instabilities and geometry
How curvature, confinement, and large deformation change familiar mechanical problems.
Active and nonequilibrium mechanics
Mechanical consequences of activity and nonconservative interactions in soft systems.
Elastodynamics and metamaterials
Wave propagation and controllable mechanical response in soft and architected media.
Selected work