I study chaotic dynamics in complex fluids and soft systems. My current projects fall broadly under polymer flows, network percolation, hydrogel dynamics, porous media, condensates, actively driven matter, and liquid crystals. This fundamental research aims to inform environmental, industrial, and medical technologies. Through education and outreach, I further hope to spread awareness of environmental water resources and the prevalence of complex fluids in daily life.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and my B.S. from Purdue University.

See our recent preprint and videos, where we report a simple, robust, versatile, & predictive way to mix fluids in porous media—where slow diffusion in laminar flows typically limits mixing—using a chaotic flow instability in polymer solutions.

Synthetic condensates in liquid crystals

See our recent preprint and videos, where we report the spontaneous formation of dynamic “living” condensate networks, formed by the phase separation of liquid crystal solutions.

Percolation