Lab members

Katja M. Taute

principal investigator
Katja studied physics at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. After her doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin, she completed a postdoc at FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has been leading a lab at the Rowland Institute at Harvard since summer 2016.

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Marianne Grognot

postdoc
Marianne joined the lab in December 2016 after defending her PhD thesis in physics at Ecole Polytechnique in France. 

Erçaǧ Pinçe

postdoc
Erçağ joined the lab in November 2018.

Anisha Mittal

undergraduate
Harvard student Anisha joined our lab in the spring 2019 semester.  

Eric J Hepler

lab technician
Eric has been supporting the lab since late 2017.

Alumni

Mattia Mah'moud

undergraduate
Harvard student Mattia Mah'moud joined our lab in the winter semester of 2018.  

Jong Woo Nam

research assistant 
Jong, who first joined the group as an REU student in 2017, has since completed a few more stints in the lab working on computational projects.

Unice Yoo

undergraduate
Harvard student Unice won an MSI fellowship to conduct a summer project at our lab in 2018. 

Ivana Roman

lab technician
Ivana supported the lab as a wet lab technician in 2017 and is now with the RoLi lab. 

Lauren Elson

undergraduate researcher
Harvard undergrad Lauren Elson conducted experiments on the motility of bacterial colonies in spring 2017.