We are broadly interested in understanding how materials behave at multiple length and time scales. We aim to study the principles of material behavior at smaller length scales and then exploit them to predict the behavior at coarser length scales. Our research is at the intersection of statistical and continuum mechanics. We mainly work with problems related to the following three topics:
Thermal and mechanical behavior of polycrystalline and amorphous materials
Principles of organization and behaviors of biological membranes
Principles of bacterial motility.
Since our research bridges the nanoscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic length scales, we develop both statistical and continuum mechanical theories and associated computational methods.
