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 Ajay Gopinathan
Professor, Department of Physics
University of California, Merced
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​Director, NSF-CREST Center for Cellular and Bimolecular Machines
Director, NIH G-RISE: Interdisciplinary Biomedical Science and Technology Program (I-BioSTeP)
Director, NSF REU Site: Interdisciplinary Biological Engineering and Science Training (I-BEST)
Chair, Division of Biological Physics (DBIO), American Physical Society



email: [email protected]

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Physical Address: 
Department of Physics,
University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Road,
Merced, CA 95343


Current Postdocs

Bhavya Mishra
email: [email protected]​

​Monika Sanoria
email: [email protected]

Current Graduate Students

Suraj Sahu
email: [email protected]

Joey McTiernan
email: [email protected]

Ankush Gargeshwari Kumar
email: [email protected]

Nolan Brown
email: [email protected]

Patrick Noerr (w/Dasbiswas Lab)
email: [email protected]

Jose Zamora (w/ McCloskey Lab)
email: [email protected] 


​Current Undergraduate Students



Former group members (next positions)

Postdocs

David Quint (Livermore National Lab, Computational Staff Physicist)

Konstantinos Tsekouras ( Purdue University, Postdoc)

Nickolay Korabel (University of Manchester, postdoc)


Graduate Students

Niranjan Sarpangala (Postdoc, UPenn)

Ritwika V.P.S (Postdoc, UCLA)

Imtiaz Ali  (Business School, UChicago)

Farnaz Golnaraghi (Computational Staff Scientist, UChicago)

Bryan Maelfeyt (Instructor, UCM)

Katie Copenhagen (Postdoc, Princeton University)

David Ando (Postdoc, LBNL)

Igor Goncharenko (Data Scientist, Sberbank)


Undergraduate Students

Maria Gamez (Grad student - UDelaware)
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Chandra Bergmann (Airkit Inc.)

Noriyuki Tani (Mitsui Chemicals Inc.)

Robby Puccinelli ( Chan Zuckerberg BioHub)

Amanda Miguel ( Stanford Bioengineering grad student)

Alan Blatt (Grad student - Chancellor's fellow, UC Irvine)

​Angel Rubalcava


 Affiliate members
Time management and Scheduling Consultant
Anika Gopinathan
PictureLeft to right: Joey Mc Tiernan, Ankush G Kumar, Ajay Gopinathan, Patrick Noerr, Nolan Brown, Suraj Sahu, Bhavya Mishra, Monika Sanoria

PictureLeft to right: Suraj Sahu, Ritwika VPS, Ajay Gopinathan, Farnaz Golnaraghi, Imtiaz Ali, Niranjan Sarpangala, Jose Zamora

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Left to right: Chandra Bergmann, Farnaz Golnaraghi, Ritwika VPS, Bryan Maelfeyt, Ajay Gopinathan, Jose Zamora, Chris Shedd, Katie Copenhagen

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