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Andrew Spakowitz received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he completed his Ph.D. and M.S. studies in Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in 2004. Prior to joining the Stanford School of Engineering in 2006, Professor Spakowitz was a postdoctoral scholar in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. The Spakowitz research lab is engaged in projects that address fundamental chemical and physical processes that underlie a range of key biological processes and cutting-edge materials applications. Research projects within his lab fall within three broads themes: DNA biophysics, charge transport in conjugated polymers, and protein self assembly. 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, and analytical theory and numerical simulations of reaction-diffusion phenomena. A common thread within the research projects in the Spakowitz lab is the need to capture phenomena over many length and time scales, and their flexibility in research methodologies allows them to address these challenging problems. Currently teaching
CHEMENG 100: Chemical Process Modeling, Dynamics, and Control
(Winter)
CHEMENG 190H: Undergraduate Honors Research in Chemical Engineering (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) CHEMENG 190: Undergraduate Research in Chemical Engineering (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) BIOPHYS 399: Directed Reading in Biophysics (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) PHYSICS 490: Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring) CHEM 200: Research and Special Advanced Work (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) CHEM 190: Advanced Undergraduate Research (Autumn, Winter) CHEM 301: Research in Chemistry (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) CHEM 90: Directed Instruction/Reading (Autumn, Winter) APPPHYS 290: Directed Studies in Applied Physics (Autumn, Winter) MATSCI 200: Master's Research (Spring, Summer) CHEMENG 600: Graduate Research in Chemical Engineering (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) MATSCI 300: Ph.D. Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) BIOPHYS 300: Graduate Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) MATSCI 299: Practical Training (Summer) |