People

Group Head

  • Jean Carlson
  • Physics Professor
  • Broida 6123

Graduate Students

  • Chantal Nguyen
  • Multi-scale network-inspired characterization of the strength and resilience of trabecular bone
  • UCSB Physics Department
  • Broida Hall
  • cnguyen@physics.ucsb.edu

  • Eric Jones
  • Microbiome network dynamics
  • UCSB Physics Department
  • Broida Hall 6302
  • ewj@physics.ucsb.edu

  • Josh Mueller
  • Network neuroscience approaches to sensorimotor integration and sequence generation
  • Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Dynamical Neuroscience
  • Broida Hall 6302
  • jmueller@ucsb.edu

Undergraduate Students

  • Zipeng Wang
  • Bifurcation analysis of dimensionality reduced dynamical systems
  • UCSB Physics Undergraduate
  • zipengwang@ucsb.edu

  • Parker Shankin-Clarke
  • Optimal control of microbiome attractor network dynamics
  • UCSB Physics Undergraduate
  • pshankinclarke@ucsb.edu

Faculty Collaborations

  • Julie H. Simpson
  • Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
  • Neural circuits controlling motor sequences
  • 3129 Bio II

  • Shenshen Wang
  • Principal Investigator, UCLA, Department of Physics & Astronomy
  • Adaptive immune system dynamics

  • Will Ludington
  • Principal Investigator, UC Berkeley, Molecular & Cell Biology
  • Staff Member, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Embryology
  • Host-microbiome interaction dynamics

  • Jim Langer
  • Department of Physics
  • Deformation in amorphous materials, glassy dynamics, non equilibrium systems
  • Broida 6125

  • Ralph Archuleta
  • Institute for Crustal Studies
  • Seismic source studies, strong motion seismology

  • John Doyle
  • Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech
  • Theoretical foundations for complex networks in engineering and biology, as well as multiscale physics

  • Jean Pierre Foque
  • Probability and Statistics Department, UCSB
  • Financial mathematics, interacting particle systems and their hydrodynamic limits, waves in random media

Ph.D. Alumni

  • Kimberly Schlesinger
  • Network-Based Investigations of Human Functional Brain Dynamics
  • RealSelf, Medical and Health Services, Seattle, WA
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2017

  • Charles Lieou
  • Modeling Dense Granular Flow: A Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics Approach and Implications of Grain Fragmentation, Acoustic Effects and Interparticle Friction on Dynamic Friction
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2015

  • Ann Hermundstad
  • Expeditions in Neurocartography: Mappings between Structural and Functional Pathways in Artificial and Cognitive Neural Systems
  • Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Ph.D. Physics 2012

  • Nada Petrovic
  • Methods for integrating models of wildfire progression with disaster response
  • US Agency for International Development
  • Ph.D. Physics 2011

  • Matt Lorig
  • Option pricing in fast mean reverting stochastic volatility models
  • Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Ph.D. Physics 2011

  • Sean Stromberg
  • Dynamics of Immnune System Vulnerabilities
  • Senior Bioinformatics Engineer, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, CA
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2009, UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 2012-2013

  • Eric Daub
  • Deformation and Localization in Earthquake Ruptures and Stick-Slip Instabilities
  • Professor of Earth Science, University of Memphis
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2009

  • Lisa Manning
  • Effective temperature and strain localization in amorphous solids
  • Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Syracuse University
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2008

  • Morgan Page
  • Quantifying uncertainty in earthquake rupture models
  • Research Geophysicist, US Geological Survey
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2007

  • Ted Brookings
  • Optimization and optimal statistics in neuroscience
  • Q-State Biosciences
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2007

  • Gregg Lois
  • Microstructure and modeling of granular materials
  • Research Scientist, Arete Associates
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2006

  • Eric Dunham
  • The dynamics and near-source ground motion of supershear earthquakes
  • Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2005

  • David Reynolds
  • Model reduction of large scale systems, the renormalization group, and exotic critical phenomena
  • Southeast Community College, Iowa
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2005

  • Adriano Batista
  • Nonlinear dynamics in semiconductor quantum wells
  • Professor at Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2000

  • Afshin Montakhab
  • Complexity in spatially extended nonequilibrium systems
  • Professor of Physics, Shiraz University, Iran
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 1997

  • Shirley Pepke
  • Forecasting in spatially extended nonequilibrium systems
  • Computational Scientist, Caltech Cell Center
  • Ph.D. UCSB Physics 1995

Post-Doctoral Researcher Alumni

  • Ahmed Elbanna
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 2011-2012

  • Kevin Brown
  • Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Materials and Biomolecular Engineering, Physics, and Marine Science, University of Connecticut
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 2007-2012

  • Danielle Bassett
  • Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 2009-2013

  • Gregor Hillers
  • Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 2005-2006

  • Anael Lemaitre
  • Professor, Institut Navier, Paris
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 2003-2006

  • Max Moritz
  • Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist, Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 2001-2004

  • Pascal Favreau
  • Assistant Professor (deceased), Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 2001-2003

  • Stefan Nielson
  • Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science, Durham University, UK
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 1999-2001

  • Carl Robert
  • Director and Portfolio Manager and Asset Allocation, Intact Investment Management, Montreal, Canada
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 1999-2001

  • Tong Zhou
  • Financial Industry, New York
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 1999-2001

  • Chris Myers
  • Senior Research Associate and Adjunct Professor of Physics, Center for Advanced Computing and Department of Physics, Cornell University
  • UCSB Post-doctoral researcher 1991-1993