Meet The Team
Sean X. Sun
Professor
Principle Investigator
Sean Sun is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute of NanoBioTechnology (INBT) at the Whiting School of Engineering. He is also a member of the Center for Cell Dynamics (CCD). His research interests are in biomechanics of the cell and tissues, mathematical biology, bioengineering, and fundamental cell biology.
Dr. Sun was a 2017 inductee as an AIMBE Fellow, for outstanding contributions to our quantitative understanding of cell mechanics, cell motility and force generation mechanisms in live cells. He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society.
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He received his BS from Penn State in 1994 and PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkley, in 1998.
ssun AT jhu.edu
Current Members
Previous Members
Name | Years | Previous Role | Current Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ana Vasconcelos | 2021 | Postdoc | Founder of Deep Science Ventures | |
Mohammad Ikbal Choudhury | 2021 | PhD Student | Postdoc at Caltech | |
Debonil Maity | 2020 | PhD Student | Research Scientist at Intel | |
Nicolas Perez Gonzalez | 2019 | PhD Student | Postdoc at ETH Zurich | |
Nash Rochman | 2018 | PhD Student | Postdoc at NIH | |
Jiaxiang Tao | 2017 | PhD Student | Postdoc at Carnegie Institute of Science | |
Sarita Korde | 2015 | PhD Student | Research Scientist at Pfizer | |
Fangwei Si | 2014 | PhD Student | Assistant Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University | |
Osman Yogurtcu | 2011 | PhD Student | ORISE Fellow and Staff Scientist at Food and Drug Administration | |
Alfredo Celedon | 2009 | PhD Student | CEO of Scanogen | |
Ganhui Lan | 2008 | PhD Student | Assistant professor of physics at George Washington University | |
Sitikantha Roy | Postdoc | Professor of mechanical engineering at IIT Deli | ||
Seungho Choe | Postdoc | Assistant professor at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology | ||
Jin Seob Kim | Postdoc | Lecturer at Johns Hopkins | ||
Jing Yang | Postdoc | Associate Professor at Lan Zhou University | ||
Hongyuan Jiang | Postdoc | Professor of modern mechanics at University of Science and Technology of China | ||
Bo Li | Postdoc | Associate professor of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University | ||
Yizeng Li | Postdoc | Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at SUNY | ||
Evgeny Stukalin | Postdoc | |||
Dhruv Kumar Vig | Postdoc | CEO of Decoded Health | ||
Erdinc Atilgan | Postdoc | Research scientist at Columbia University Medical School | ||
Sam Walcott | Postdoc | Associate professor of mathematics at UC Davis |