Principal Investigator
Yann Chemla
Professor of Physics and Biophysics
Center for the Physics of Living Cells (CPLC), co-director
Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Physics
B.S. Yale University, Physics
E-mail: ychemla@illinois.edu
Graduate Students
Alice Troitskaia
B.S. University of Alberta, Cell Biology
E-mail: troitsk2@illinois.edu
Aniket Ravan
B.S./M.S. Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Physics
E-mail: asravan2@illinois.edu
Sean Carney
B.S. Allegheny College, Chemistry
E-mail: spcarne2@illinois.edu
Suoang Lu
B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, Physics
E-mail: slu35@illinois.edu
Steve Yeo
B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics
E-mail: yeo2@illinois.edu
Yuchen Wu
B.S. Michigan State University, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
E-mail: yuchenw4@illinois.edu
Jiasen Hou
B.S. Northeastern University , Applied Physics
E-mail: jiasenh2@illinois.edu
Former Members
Monika Makurath
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 2022
Current Position: Post-doctoral Researcher, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz's lab,
Janelia Research Campus of HHMI, Virginia
Roshni Bano
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computational Biology, 2020
Current Position: Post-doctoral Researcher, Minjung Ryu's lab,
University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago
Ruopei Feng
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2019
Current Position: Data Science Fellow, Insight Data Science, Boston
Barbara Stekas
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Physics, 2018
Current Position: Data scientist, Plated, New York
Tatyana Perlova
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Physics, 2017
Current Position: Data scientist/ Computational biologist, Indigo Ag, Boston
Kevin Whitley
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, 2017
Current Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Cees Dekker's Lab, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Isaac Li
Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for the Physics of Living Cells, 2012-2015
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Okanagan (Link)
Kiran Girdhar
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computational Biology, 2015
Current Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sukrit Suksombat
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Physics, 2015
Current Position: Faculty member, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand
Patrick Mears
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Physics, 2014
Current Position: Systems Integration Engineer, Abbott Laboratories
Zhi Qi
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computational Biology, 2013
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Center of Quantitative Biology & Peking-Tsinghua Center of Life Sciences, Peking University, China (Link)
Vishal Kottadiel
Visiting Graduate Student, Venigalla Rao's Lab, The Catholic University of America
Current Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Venigalla Rao's Lab, The Catholic University of America
Rustem Khafizov
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Physics, 2012
Current Position: Research Scientist, NanoString Technologies
Markita Landry
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2012
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley (Link)
Taejin Lance Min
Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Physics, 2012
Current Position: Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine
Matthew Comstock
Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for the Physics of Living Cells
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University (Link)
Ryan Lanner
Undergraduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kaitlin Grace Sumler
Undergraduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Current Position: Classified, U.S. Space Force
Arnulf Taylor
Undergraduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Current Position: Graduate Student, Tom Perkins Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder
Patrick McCall
Undergraduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Current Position: Graduate Student, Margaret Gardel's Lab, University of Chicago