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Our Focus

The Holten-Andersen Group at Lehigh University is headed by  Professor Niels Holten-Andersen.  


We study bio-inspired materials. 


Our goal is to employ design principles extracted from nature in the development of novel synthetic materials that help overcome global challenges in energy, the environment and health. Specifically, by incorporating soft biological material design principles into synthetic polymer platforms, we seek to enhance control, advance function and expand applications of polymer materials. By establishing a synergy between innovative structure-property studies of model biological materials and successful applications of bio-inspired synthetics, the Holten-Andersen Group will not only continuously contribute to the field of bio-inspired materials engineering, but also add to the fundamental elucidation of nature’s advanced functional material design.

Group members

Group Leader Niels Holten-Andersen

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

Grad Students

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

Former Group Members

Shubhanga Balla

Carlos Caldera

Seth Cazzell

Alvaro Charlet

Pangkuan Chen

Eleanor Crossley 

Felipe de Quesada

Will Dickson

Sophia Fang

Rebecca Gallivan

Scott Grindy

Danielle Herman

Sarah Hopkin

Michael Kessler

Sungjin Kim

Erica Lai

Madison Landry

Omar Laris

Robert Learsch

Qiaochu Li

Caroline Liu

Stephanie Marzen

Irina Mahmad Rasid

Abigail Regitsky

Emily Ryan

Olivia Saouaf

Inbar Yamin

Jennie Zheng

Yu Zheng



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