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.
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 | |
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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 | |
Jin Seob Kim | Postdoc | Lecturer at Johns Hopkins | ||
Erdinc Atilgan | Postdoc | Research scientist at Columbia University Medical School | ||
Sam Walcott | Postdoc | Associate professor of mathematics at UC Davis | ||
Sitikantha Roy | Postdoc | Professor of mechanical engineering at IIT Deli | ||
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 | ||
Evgeny Stukalin | Postdoc | |||
Jin Seob Kim | Postdoc | Lecturer at Johns Hopkins | ||
Dhruv Kumar Vig | Postdoc | CEO of Decoded Health | ||
Yizeng Li | Postdoc | Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at SUNY | ||
Jing Yang | Postdoc | Associate Professor at Lan Zhou University |