People
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Steve Pressé
Principal Investigator
Steve Pressé was born in Montreal and went to McGill University as an undergrad where he studied chemistry. He later pursued his doctorate in chemical physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the direction of Professor Robert J. Silbey. As a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Ken A. Dill’s lab, his research focus shifted to biophysics and dynamical processes in particular. He is now a professor at Arizona State University with dual appointment in both the physics and chemistry departments. His lab now uses both theory and experiments to address fundamental questions relevant to molecular science.
Lab Members
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Ayush Saurabh
Postdoc
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Pedro Pessoa
Postdoc
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Jay Spendlove
PhD Student
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Sijie Huang
Postdoc
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Stanimir Tashev
Postdoc
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Lance (Weiqing) Xu
PhD Student
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Maxwell Schweiger
PhD Student
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Tristan Manha
PhD Student
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Shep Bryan
Staff Engineer
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Carol Lu
Undergraduate Student
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Leah Cotton
Undergraduate Student
Past Members
Postdocs
Name | Where are they now? |
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Lei Zhou | Assistant Professor |
Zeliha Kilic | Bioinformatics Research Scientist, St. Jude Research Single Molecule Imaging Center |
Sina Jazani | Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
Ioannis Sgouralis | Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
Konsantinos Tsekouras | Senior Data Scientist at Exelon |
Sean L Seyler | Lead Scientist and Research Lab Manager at Hayes Lab, School of Molecular Sciences at ASU |
Mohamad Fazel | Staff Scientist at Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression |
PhD Students
Name | Where are they now? |
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Hossein Jashnsaz | Postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt Medical School |
Meysam Tavakoli | Postdoctoral fellow in Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
Sina Jazani | Postdoctoral fellow Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
Other Students
Master’s students | Undergraduates with Honors Thesis |
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Camille Moyer | Austin Gallimore |
Mikayla Carlson | Alec Sanchez |
Ross Wallgren | Mikayla Carlson |
Matthew Safar | Alex Rojewski |
Vishesh Kumar |