Jordan L. Shivers
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I am a Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, where I am jointly mentored by Suri Vaikuntanathan and Aaron Dinner. Previously, I was supported by a Kadanoff-Rice Fellowship. I am broadly interested in the physics and engineering of active soft and biological matter, and I tackle problems in this area using a combination of theory, computer simulations, and machine learning techniques, often in collaboration with experimental groups.
I received a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Rice University in 2022, under the supervision of Fred MacKintosh. There, I used theoretical and computational tools from soft matter and statistical physics to model the mechanics and dynamics of disordered biological materials.
In 2016, I received a B.S.E. with honors in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton University, where I worked with Cliff Brangwynne to develop a novel experimental technique for measuring the physical properties of membraneless organelles in developing nematodes.
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Jul 2024 | Our paper characterizing the nonlinear Poisson effect in semiflexible polymer gels was accepted in Physical Review E. |
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May 2024 | Our paper on the effects of matrix incompressibility on the rheology of composite gels was published in The European Physical Journal E. |
May 2024 | I served as a co-organizer for U. Chicago’s first AI in Science Hackathon, which had more than 50 participants. Congratulations to the winning teams and all participants! |
Feb 2024 | Our paper on molecular motor-controlled elastic effects in active liquid crystals was published in Soft Matter. |
Nov 2023 | On Nov. 24, I gave a talk at the Isaac Newton Institute entitled “Dynamics and instabilities in growing fluid membranes.” |
Nov 2023 | From Nov. 4-26, I am visiting the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge to participate in the program “New Statistical Physics in Living Matter.” |
Oct 2023 | Our paper investigating slow dynamics in strained fiber networks is now published in Physical Review Letters. |
Sep 2023 | I gave a talk on Morphological transitions in growing membranes during the workshop “Mechanics of Cells and Polymer Networks” at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, CA. |
Jul 2023 | I served as a co-organizer for U. Chicago’s second annual AI in Science Summer School (Jul. 17-21), which hosted 10 invited speakers and more than 90 attendees from around the country. |