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Laboratory of Interfacial & Small Scale Transport
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Principal Investigator
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Dr. Sandra M. Troian
Professor of Applied Physics,
Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 128-95
Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
Watson Labs 154
Tel (626) 395-3362
Fax (626) 395-6106
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Administrative Assistant
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Christy E. Jenstad
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 138-78
Pasadena, CA 91125
Tel (626) 395-2132
Grants and Contracts Manager
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Patama Taweesup
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 136-93
Pasadena, CA 91109
142B Moore Laboratory
Tel (626) 395-8542
NASA Collaborators
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Dr. Artem I. Baskin
NASA Ames Research Center
Intelligent Systems Division
Computational Materials Group
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Tel (510) 486-6123
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Dr. Colleen Marrese-Reading
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Dr.
MS 125-109
Pasadena, CA 91109
Tel (818) 354-8179
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Dr. James E. Polk
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Dr.
MS 125-109
Pasadena, CA 91109
Tel (818) 354-9275
Postdoctoral Research Associates (See Job Openings for
more information.)
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Click here for a list of former postdocs
Graduate Students (See Job Openings for available projects.)
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Project: PDE constrained control of lithographic patterning of nanofilms
Sponsor: 2020 Croucher Foundation Scholarship
Yi Hua (Dillon) Chang
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 128-95
Pasadena, CA 91125
Watson Labs 150
Tel (626) 395-8662
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Project: Dynamical behavior and pattern forming instabilities in electrified films
Cheolmin Im
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 128-95
Pasadena, CA 91125
Watson Labs 150
Tel (626) 395-8662
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• Graduate research rotation
Project: Anomalous diffusion in stochastic systems
Jessica K. Jiang
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 128-95
Pasadena, CA 91125
Watson Labs 148
Tel (626) 395-4848
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Project: Molecular dynamics simulations of thermal resistance effects at liquid/solid interfaces
Sponsor: 2019 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship
Hiroki Kaifu
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 128-95
Pasadena, CA 91125
Watson Labs 148
Tel (626) 395-4848
Click here for a list of former graduate students
Undergraduate Students
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We welcome Caltech undergraduate students interested in research opportunities during the academic year or summer months. SURF projects are also available for juniors and seniors majoring in Physics, Applied Physics, Applied and Computational Math., Electrical Eng. or Computer Science. Contact Prof. Troian by email to schedule an appointment to discuss research opportunities.
Former Group Members
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Dr. Nan Liu
Current affiliation: Product Design Engineer, Apple, Cupertino, CA
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, S. M. Troian Group, Caltech (07/2010 - 07/2012) -
Dr. Anoosheh Niavarani
Current affiliation: Data Engineer, Facebook, Menlo Park, CA
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, S. M. Troian Group, Caltech (06/2011 - 06/2012) -
Dr. Euan McLeod
Current affiliation: Assistant Professor, College of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, A. Ozcan Group, Electrical Eng. Dept, UCLA (10/2011 - 08/2015)
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, S. M. Troian Group, Caltech (07/2009 - 10/2011) -
Dr. Amir Gat
Current affiliation: Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Technion, Haifa, Israel
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Morteza Gharib Group, Caltech, Pasadena, CA (08/2010 - 08/2012)
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, S. M. Troian Group, Caltech, Pasadena, CA (03/2010 - 08/2010) -
Dr. Yu Liu
Current affiliation: Senior Staff Engineer, Complete Genomics, San Jose, CA
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, S. M. Troian Group, Caltech (08/2009 - 09/2010)
Past affiliation: Caltech PhD Chemistry, January 2010 -
Dr. Mathias Dietzel
Current affiliation: Remote Sensing Thermal Engineer, LumaSense, Magdeburg, Germany
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, S. M. Troian Group, Caltech (10/2007 - 5/2010)
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dimitri Psaltis Group, Caltech (10/2006 - 10/2007) -
Dr. Anton A. Darhuber
Current affiliation: Professor of Applied Physics, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Past affiliation: Research Staff, S. M. Troian Group, Princeton University (2001-2006)
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, S. M. Troian Group, Princeton University (2000-2001)
Past affiliation: Austrian NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, S. M. Troian Group, Princeton University (1999-2000) -
Dr. Nikolai V. Priezjev
Current affiliation: Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Materials Eng., Wright State Univ.
Past affiliation: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, MI (2005 - 2013)
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, S. M. Troian Group, Princeton University (2002-2005) -
Dr. Steffen Berg
Current affiliation: Principal Scientist, Shell Global Solutions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, S. M. Troian Group, Princeton University (2003-2005) -
Dr. Anne D. Dussaud
Current affiliation: Expert Scientist, Momentive Performance Materials, Tarrytown, NY
Past affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, S. M. Troian Group, Princeton University (1997-1998)
Past affiliation: French Ministry of Education Postdoctoral Fellow, S. M. Troian Group, Princeton University (1996-1997)
Co-recipient of 1999 Francois N. Frenkiel Award, American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics
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Nick White, Applied Physics, Caltech, PhD '22
Affiliation: Unknown
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Teddy Albertson, Applied Physics, Caltech, PhD '20
Affiliation: Technology Investment Associate, Kairos Ventures, Pasadena, CA
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Chengzhe Zhou, Physics, Caltech, PhD '20
Affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology, Bionic Vision System Laboratory, Shanghai, China
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Kevin R. Fiedler, Physics, Caltech, PhD '17
Affiliation: Physicist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
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Zachary Nicolaou, Physics, Caltech, PhD '17
Affiliation: WRF Postdoctoral Fellow and Acting Instructor, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
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Gerry Della Rocca, Co-advised, Mechanical Eng., Caltech, PhD '14
Affiliation: Principal Systems Engineer, Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Wilmington, MA
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Bradley J. Lyon, NASA/JPL Summer Research Internship, 06-09/2009
Affiliation: Unknown
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Joseph P. Valentino, Princeton University, PhD '07
Affiliation: Principal, Patent prosecution, Fish & Richardson P.C., NY, NY
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Jian-Zhang Chen, Princeton University, PhD '06
Affiliation: Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University
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Eric A. Adelizzi, Princeton University, PhD '06
Affiliation: Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA
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Scott M. Miller, Princeton University, PhD '04
Affiliation: Staff Engineer, General Electric Corp., Rochester, NY
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Wei Chen, Princeton University, Summer/Fall'04
Affiliation: Quantitative Researcher, Citadel LLC, Chicago, Illinois
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Benjamin J. Fischer, Princeton University, PhD '03
Affiliation: SIMULIA Developer Senior Manager, Dassault Systèmes, Waltham, MA
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Jeffrey M. Davis, Princeton University, PhD '03
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
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Walter W. Reisner, Princeton University, M.S. '02, PhD '06
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC
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Dawn E. Manley (née Kataoka), Princeton University, PhD '99
Affiliation: VP of Engineering and Data Science, Owl Labs, Somerville, MA
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Omar K. Matar, Princeton University, PhD '98
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Chemical Eng. & Chemical Tech., Imperial College, London
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Vera K. Smith, Princeton University, MSE '97
Affiliation: Unknown
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Lorenzo X. Van Muñoz, Physics, Caltech SURF 2020
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
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Kishan Makwana, BS Physics 2019, Wadham College, University of Oxford,
Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Programme Scholar; Caltech SURF 2018
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Vilda Markeviciute, BS Mathematics 2018, Christ's College, University of Cambridge
Caltech SURF 2017
Affiliation: Undergraduate senior, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
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Daniel Soon Wei Lim, Physics, Caltech, B.S. 2017
Caltech SURF 2015 and 2016; 2010 George W. Housner Student Discovery Award; 2017 Caltech Senior Thesis Library Prize; 2017 American Physical Society Ken Hass Outstanding Student Paper Award; 2017 D.S. Kothari Prize in Physics
Affiliation: Applied Physics, PhD program, Harvard University
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Andy Ylitalo, BS Eng. Physics 2017, Stanford University
Caltech SURF 2016
Affiliation: Computer Vision / Machine Learning Software Engineer, Ceevra, Inc., San Francisco, CA -
Yanbing Zhu, BS Physics 2017, California Institute of Technology
Fred and Jean Felberg Fellowship, Caltech SURF 2016
Affiliation: PhD Program, Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Dahan Choi, BS Applied Physics 2016, California Institute of Technology
Caltech SURF 2015
Affiliation: PhD Program, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ -
Katherine Jiang, BS Mechanical Eng. 2016, California Institute of Technology
Homer J. Stewart Fellowship, Caltech SURF 2015
Affiliation: PhD Program, Materials Science Dept., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA -
Tatiana A. Roy, BS Applied Physics 2016, California Institute of Technology
Rose Hills Fellowship, Caltech SURF 2014
Affiliation: Staff Engineer, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA -
Cassidy Yang, BS Physics 2016, California Institute of Technology
Caltech SURF 2015
Affiliation: PhD Program, Dept. of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Deceased: December 5, 2020 -
Charles Tschirhart , Applied Physics and Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, B.S 2015
Fred and Jean Felberg Fellowship, Caltech SURF 2013; 2013 Housner Fellow; 2014 Barry Goldwater Fellowship; 2014 Fulbright Scholar; 2015 Hertz Fellowship
Affiliation: PhD Program, Dept. of Physics, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA -
Lisa M. Lee, BS Physics 2014, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Chandler C. Ross Fellowship, Caltech SURF 2013
Current Affiliation: PhD Program, Applied Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA -
Nancy Yue Wu, BS Applied Physics 2014, California Institute of Technology
W. H. Halpenny Fellowship, Caltech SURF 2013
Affiliation: PhD Program, Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, Cambridge, MA -
Ryan A. Denlinger, BS Applied and Computational Mathematics 2011, California Institute of Technology
2010 George W. Housner Student Discovery Award
Affiliation: Software engineer, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT -
Michael J. Inadomi, BS Applied Physics 2008, California Institute of Technology
2008 George W. Housner Student Discovery Award
Affiliation: Primary care physician, private practice, Los Angeles, CA -
Filip Crnogorac, BSE Chemical Engineering 2003, Princeton University
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Casey Jacobsen, BSE Electrical Engineering 2003, Princeton University
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Elizabeth A. Hon, BSE Electrical Engineering 2002, Princeton University
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Bernard Y. Wang, BSE Electrical Engineering 2001, Princeton University
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Tanja Cuk, BSE Engineering Physics 2000, Princeton University
Co-advised by Prof. Sigurd Wagner (EE)
Charles Ira Young Medal (EE)
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Conor Madigan, BSE Electrical Engineering 2000, Princeton University
Co-advised by Prof. Jim Sturm (EE)
Calvin Dodd MacCracken Senior Thesis Award (SEAS) and POEM Newport Award in Photonics (EE)
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Gwendolyn D. Barriac, BSE Engineering Physics 1998, Princeton University
Co-advised by Prof. S. Wagner (EE)
Peter Mark Prize (EE) and Jeffrey O. Kephardt `80 Prize (SEAS)
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Jean Freysz, Summer Research Internship 1998, Princeton University
Scientific Training Program, École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France)
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David S. Ege, BSE Chemical Engineering 1996, Princeton University
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Stephanie R. Roberts, BSE Chemical Engineering 1996, Princeton University
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Morgan Schwartz, BSE Chemical Engineering 1996, Princeton University
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Ashanthi M. Pereira, BSE Chemical Engineering 1995, Princeton University
Michele Goudie Prize (ChE)
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Andrew B. Williams, BSE Chemical Engineering 1995, Princeton University
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