| Abstract |
We visited the Eidgenösische Technische Hochshule (Swiss Federal Technical University) in Zürich, Switzerland under the sponsorship of the NSF IREE program. We describe our accomplishments and the connections we made for future international collaborations. We werehosted during our stay by Prof. Dr. Hans Herrmann, Director of the Computational Physics group at the Institut für Baustoffe.
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| Bio |
Troy Shinbrot received his Bachelor's in Physics from Reed College in 1978, and worked for several years at Xerox Corporation and then at Arthur D. Little, Inc. He took his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1992, with a dissertation on the Control of Chaos. He completed a postdoc at Northwestern University in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and was promoted to Research Assistant Professor in 1994. He left Northwestern for Rutgers University in 1998, where he held the position of Research Associate Professor, again in Chemical Engineering, until 2002, when he became Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering. He was granted tenure in 2005 and served as Graduate Director between 2002 and 2007. His research deals with two areas: first, he studies granular flow and mixing, most recently of charged grains, and second he studies pattern formation, particularly during biological development.
Carlos Caicedo-Carvajal was born in Colombia and became a US citizen in 2007. He received the B.S. degree in Biochemistry from Rutgers University in 2001. Following a year working on measuring adhesive properties of fibroblast on polymer surfaces at the NJ Center for Biomaterials, he enrolled in the Biomedical Engineering graduate program at Rutgers University. Since 2002, he has worked on several academic aspects from the physics of granular flow to his current research on the physical properties of tissue self-assembly and cellular rearrangement and simulation of cellular systems with prescribed attraction/repulsion relations. He is committed to community education, and has volunteered for several outreach projects to teach Science and Engineering to local underprivileged youth. Research interests include pattern formation in granular and biological systems, and his dissertation focuses on the understanding of basic aspects of substrate deposition during tissue self-assembly and the dynamics of wound healing in the adult organism.
Mehdi Doumi was born in Algeria, and became a US citizen in 2006. He graduated from Rutgers in the Biomedical Engineering Department (BME) in 2006, with an honors thesis on neurite pathfinding, and enrolled in the BME graduate program the same year. He has performed finite element simulations of nonlinear interactions between fluid and heat transport during pharmaceutical capsule drying. He has received several awards, including a Bloustein Award for Outstanding Scholarship and a National Award of Distinction for direction and production of a video for the Rutgers Television system. He helped rebuild homes after the Katrina hurricane through Habitat for Humanity, and serves as a Biomedical Engineering Student Society graduate representative. His research interests include computational biology as applied to morphogenesis during development and emergent processes in granular and fluid physics. |
| Cite this work |
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Troy Shinbrot, Carlos Caicedo-Carvajal and Mehdi Doumi, "ERC: Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulates", Trip report presented at the NSF IREE 2008 Grantees Conference, May 2008, Washington, D.C.
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