Faculty

Core & Associated Faculty

Joshua Atkinson

Bioelectronics, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, microbial communities, cell-material interfaces, synthetic biology, biophysics

Start Date
January 2024
José Avalos
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Use of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to address important problems in sustainable energy, the environment, industry and human health

Clifford Brangwynne
Director, Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
June K. Wu ’92 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Biophysics, cell engineering, protein interactions, phase separation in cells

Mark Brynildsen
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Bacterial persistence, host-pathogen interactions, network biology of bacterial stress

Daniel Cohen
Director of Graduate Studies
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Herding cells for pleasure and non-profit; Tissue engineering with bioelectric ‘sheepdogs’; Cellular crowd dynamics in healing and tissue growth; Living swarm biomechanics and biophysics; 3D biomaterials mimicking cells; Waterbears and extreme biology

Jonathan M. Conway
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Defining and engineering plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions at plant-microbe interfaces

Sujit Datta
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Physics and engineering of soft materials; transport through porous media; biophysics; biological polymers; microfluidics; microbial communities

Danelle Devenport
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

The cell biology of tissue polarity and epithelial patterning

Jason Fleischer
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nonlinear optics and photonics for biomedical imaging

Tian-Ming Fu
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Microscopy and bioimaging; bioelectronics, flexible electronics, and nanotechnology; cell and developmental biology; tissue engineering; neuroscience

Mikko Haataja
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Theoretical and computational materials science; physics of materials; physical biology; microstructure formation

Peter Jaffe
William L. Knapp '47 Professor of Civil Engineering. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Waste treatment systems;  environmental remediation; biogeochemically mediated dynamics

Martin Jonikas
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

Biogenesis, function and engineering of the eukaryotic CO2-fixing organelle, the pyrenoid

Jerelle A. Joseph
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Understanding and engineering of biomolecular condensates; multiscale computer simulations; biophysics; protein self-assembly

Ralph Kleiner
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Chemical biology approaches to investigate RNA dynamics and post-transcriptional regulation

Andrej Kosmrlj
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Design and mechanics of metamaterials with unusual material properties; Mechanics in morphogenesis during embryo development

Andrew Leifer
Assistant Professor of Physics and Neuroscience

Our lab seeks to understand how patterns of neural activity generate animal behavior.

Michael S. Levine
Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Anthony B. Evnin '62 Professor in Genomics, Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

How noncoding regions of the genome function to control the differential patterns of gene expression, both spatial and temporal, that define cell behavior

A. James Link
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Protein engineering, peptides, natural products, antibiotics, microbiology, genomics, and supramolecular chemistry

 

Mala Murthy
Karol and Marnie Marcin ’96 Professor of Neuroscience and Director, Princeton Neuroscience Institute

How the brain converts sensory stimuli into meaningful representations, and how these representations drive behavioral responses

Cameron A. Myhrvold
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology

CRISPR-based technologies for studying viral and cellular RNA

Sabine Petry
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

Molecular architecture and function of the microtubule cytoskeleton

Yuri Pritykin
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Genomics

Applying statistics, machine learning and efficient algorithms to biology and medicine with integrative analysis of multi-dimensional data

Robert K. Prud'homme
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Polymeric formulations for drug encapsulation, delivery, and release

Ben Raphael
Professor of Computer Science

Developing and applying computational and mathematical methods to address biological questions at the molecular and cellular level

Kaushik Sengupta
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Integrated circuits and chip-scale systems operating across RF-THz-optical frequencies in low-cost, smart biomedical devices for point-of-care use

Sebastian Seung
Evnin Professor in Neuroscience, Professor of Computer Science and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Using techniques from machine learning and social computing to extract brain structure from light and electron microscopic images

Stanislav Shvartsman
Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

Quantitative analysis of pattern formation in developing tissues; genetics, genomics and computational studies of signaling pathways

Mona Singh
Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

Computational biology and bioinformatics; computational science

Mary Caswell Stoddard
Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Animal coloration and patterning, avian color vision, evolution of eggs

Howard Stone
Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Theory, simulation and experiments in surface tension, buoyancy, fluid rotation and surfactants; flow of lipids and motions of suspended particles

James Sturm
Stephen R. Forrest Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Micronanofabricated technologies for electronics, displays, and bio-interfacing devices.

Jared Toettcher
Deputy Director
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

Understanding and controlling complex cell behaviors

Olga Troyanskaya
Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

Genomic data integration; bioinformatics, algorithms and machine learning.

Mengdi Wang
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning

Machine learning and reinforcement learning, with applications in healthcare, drug discovery, intelligent systems

Ellen Zhong
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Machine learning, computational and structural biology, 3D computer vision, biological imaging