Members

Michele Di Pierro, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Northeastern University and Senior Investigator in the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics. I am a physicist (theoretical), a mathematician (applied), and a biologist (computational).

I studied condensed matter physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza and applied mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.  I was the Robert A. Welch Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University.

Along the way, I became interested in biology and it stuck with me.

Bernardo Zubillaga Herrera, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am interested in the statistical mechanics and complexity of biological systems.

Andrea Falcon Cortes, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

I’m a mathematician by formation but a physicist in my heart. I’m interested in ecology, particularly evolution, learning, and movement. I enjoy discovering how different theoretical tools can be applied to explain natural phenomena and how our trying to understand nature can inspire the development of new algorithms and models.

Alex Moffett, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (co-advised with Herbert Levine)

I’m interested in evolution and ecology, and how tools from mathematics, physics, and engineering can contribute in new ways to our understanding of living things.

Ailun Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (co-advised with Herbert Levine)

I am a computational chemist interested in modeling, simulating, and exploring the molecular mechanisms behind biological systems.

Douglas White, B.S.

Graduate Student, Physics, Northeastern University

I think that the meaning of life is at least forty.

Weiqi Lu, B.S.

Graduate Student, Physics, Rice University (co-advised with Josè Onuchic)

I am a PhD student in physics driven by a love for modeling and deciphering biological systems like genomes. I am excited to explore the interplay between physics, biology, and computational techniques, and strive to expand our knowledge in these areas.

Kevin Donohue

Undergraduate Student, Northeastern University

I am a fourth-year physics undergraduate, with minors in environmental studies and mathematics, who is passionate about research.

Linden Burak

Undergraduate Student, Northeastern University

I am a wide-eyed undergraduate interested in how existence happens. In my free time I throw frisbees and play guitar.

Jingshu Yu

Undergraduate Student, Northeastern University

I’m an Industrial Engineering major, interested in challenging myself and exploring impossibilities.

Keyona Stubbs

Undergraduate Student, Texas Southern University

Interested in infectious disease research and an intern for biophysics.

Alumni

Amit Das, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Now Assistant Professor at IIT Delhi.

Maya Lane

Lab Assistant / Co-Op Intern, Physics

William Cutler

Undergraduate Intern, Physics