物理学哲学博士-软凝聚态和复杂流体

使用共聚焦显微镜，激光镊子，电渗控制，微流体技术等实验技术，结合图像分析和计算模型，研究了生物聚合物网络，生物膜和胶体悬浮液。研究领域包括细胞膜上的相分离，大分子和活细胞的微流变学，胶体悬浮液的普遍沉降平衡，远离平衡的活性胶体悬浮液，在复杂和/或拥挤的环境中扩散以及溶液中纳米级复合物的形成和演化。博士学位课程包括一系列核心课程，其中包括一些高级研究生课程，这些课程提供了从长远来看非常重要的物理学广泛背景，与学生研究领域相关的专门课程以及针对该学科的研究。博士学位论文。在其他机构从事研究生工作的学生可以在其
Biopolymer networks, biomembranes, and colloidal suspensions are investigated using experimental techniques such as confocal microscopy, laser tweezers, electro-osmotic control, microfluidics, in combination with image analysis and computational modeling. Research areas include phase separation on cell membranes, microrheology of macromolecules and living cells, generalized sedimentation equilibrium of colloidal suspensions, active colloidal suspensions far from equilibrium, diffusion in complex and/or crowded environments, and formation and evolution of nanoscale complexes in solutions. The Ph D program includes a set of core courses, including some at the advanced graduate level that provide the broad background in physics that is so important in the long run, specialized courses relevant to the research area of the student, and the research for the Ph D dissertation. Students entering with graduate level work at other institutions may include relevant courses taken at the other institutions in their proposal for candidacy, which includes all their course preparation as well as the research proposal for the dissertation. The Department of Physics at Lehigh University offers programs leading to the B.A. in astronomy, the B.S. in astrophysics, and to the B.A., B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics, as well as a summer research program for undergraduates. Research areas include astronomy and astrophysics, atomic, molecular, and optical physics, biophysics, computational physics, condensed-matter physics, general relativity, cosmology, and string theory, high-energy and accelerator physics, nano science, non-linear optics and photonics, plasma physics, soft-condensed matter and complex fluids, and statistical physics.