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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |

