Group members
Group Leader Niels Holten-Andersen
Associate Professor, Bioengineering and MSE, Lehigh University, 2021-Current
Doherty Professor in Ocean Utilization, DMSE, MIT, 2014-2020
John Chipman Assistant Professor, DMSE, MIT, 2012-2014
Associate Professor, Program in Polymers and Soft Matter, MIT, 2012-Current
Post-Doc University of Chicago, 2008-2012
Ph.D. Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2008
M.Sc. Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2001
B.Sc.Hon. Molecular Biology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2000
B.Sc. Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1998
Research Interests: Design principles of biological materials; Soft condensed matter; Physical-chemistry of dynamic interfaces
Post-Doc
Qysar Maqbool
Ph.D. Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India, 2018
M.Sc. Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, 2010
B.Sc. Chemistry and Biology, Government College Baramulla
University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India, 2008
Research Interests
Jake Song (MIT)
B.Sc. Northwestern University, 2017
Research Interests: Fundamental understanding of power-law relaxation dynamics in polymer networks for the design of tough and dynamically adaptive soft materials
Eesha Khare (MIT)
B.Sc. Harvard University, 2017
M.Phil Trinity College Cambridge, 2018
Research interests: Fundamental chemistry and kinetics of metal-ligand bonds, simulation, protein structure and function, fracture
Photo Gallery
Setting up the lab with Post-Doc Qysar Maqbool
It takes brains to be part of Lehigh Bio-Engineering
Prof. Holten-Andersen teaching BioE 257, Biomechanics and Biomaterials
Ph.D. grad Scott Grindy and Prof. Holten-Andersen
Holten-Andersen group, 2018
Holten-Andersen group, 2016