Jordan L. Shivers
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.
I received a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Rice University in 2022, under the supervision of Fred MacKintosh, where I used theoretical and computational tools from soft matter and statistical physics to understand and predict the behavior of complex 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 an experimental tool for characterizing the soft matter physics of membraneless organelles in the roundworm C. elegans.
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Nov 2023 | On Nov. 24, I gave a talk at the Isaac Newton Institute entitled “Dynamics and instabilities in growing fluid membranes.” |
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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: non equilibrium states under adaptive control”. |
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. |