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Andrew Spakowitz received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1999, and he defended his PhD thesis in Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in 2004. He was a postdoctoral scholar in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley from 2004 to 2006. Andrew Spakowitz joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford as an Assistant Professor in August 2006. He was promoted to Associate Professor in April 2014 and full Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Materials Science and Engineering in 2020. Professor Spakowitz currently serves as the Tang Family Foundation Chair of Chemical Engineering.
The Spakowitz lab is engaged in projects that address fundamental chemical and physical phenomena underlying a range of biological processes and soft-material applications. Current research in the lab focuses on four main research themes: chromosomal organization and dynamics, protein self-assembly, polymer membranes, and charge transport in conducting polymers. These broad research areas offer complementary perspectives on chemical and physical processes, and the Spakowitz lab leverages this complementarity to provide fundamental physical insight into these critical problems. Their approach draws from a diverse range of theoretical and computational methods, including analytical theory of semiflexible polymers, polymer field theory, continuum elastic mechanics, Brownian dynamics simulation, equilibrium and dynamic Monte Carlo simulations, analytical theory and numerical simulations of reaction-diffusion phenomena, and machine-learning and data-science approaches. A common thread in their work is the need to capture phenomena over many length and time scales, and flexibility in research methodologies provides them with the critical tools to address these complex multidisciplinary problems.
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