Principal Investigator
 | Jesse T. Ault (CV) Assistant Professor of Engineering
Email: jesse_ault@brown.edu Website: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jault |
Postdoctoral Researchers
| We are currently recruiting postdocs! Please reach out and contact us if interested! |
Graduate Students
 | Robben Migacz Ph.D. Candidate Advised: (8/20 - Present) Email: robben_migacz@brown.edu Project: Coupled diffusion processes, diffusiophoresis, and ion control in microfluidics. |
 | Jian Teng Ph.D. Candidate Advised: (7/20 - Present) Email: jian_teng@brown.edu Project: Dynamics of finite rods near solid boundaries. |
 | Morgan Castleberry Ph.D. Student Advised: (9/22 - Present) Email: morgan_castleberry@brown.edu Project: Enhanced particle diffusiophoresis with time-varying solute strategies. |
 | Haoyi Wang Master of Science Candidate Email: haoyi_wang@brown.edu Project: Vortex breakdown in confined inertial microfluidics. |
Undergraduate Students
 | Sungwon (Bob) La Undergraduate researcher Project: Solute-gradient-induced manipulation of ions via microfluidics. |
 | Kyra Howard Fall 2022 Undergraduate UTRA researcher Project: The mysterious fluid dynamics in a seal's nose. |
 | John (Jack) McDonough Undergraduate researcher 2022-2023 Honors Senior Thesis Project: Diffusioosmosis-driven particle transport under a 3D solute gradient in a dead-end pore geometry. |
 | Daniel Marella Undergraduate researcher Advised: Fall 2021 - Present Project: Fluid-structure interactions via OpenFOAM with dynamic meshing. |
Visiting Researchers
 | Zhong Zheng Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Email: zhongzheng@sjtu.edu.cn Project: Healing blister and crack film flows and similarity solutions. |
 | Saebom Lee Ph.D. Candidate Email: leesb@skku.edu Project: Consequences of variable zeta potential on diffusiophoretic transport. |
Current Collaborators
| Sangwoo Shin | University of Hawaii at Manoa (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Yong Lin Kong | University of Utah (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Jie Feng | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Mechanical Science and Engineering) |
| Howard Stone | Princeton University (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) |
| Bhargav Rallabandi | University of California, Riverside (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Amy Shen | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit) |
| Jinkee Lee | Sungkyunkwan University (School of Mechanical Engineering) |
Alumni
 | Guillaume Durey Postdoctoral Scholar Advised: (1/21 - 12/21) Email: guillaume_durey@brown.edu Project: Diffusiophoresis via photo-reactive molecular dissociation. |
 | Xinyi Yu Master of Science (Thesis) Advised: (9/19 - 5/21) Project: Vortex dynamics, breakdown, and stability in moderate Reynolds number microfluidics. |
 | Bryan Hong Master of Science (Non-Thesis) Advised: (9/19 - 6/20) Project: OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamics simulations of flows past airfoils with temperature gradients. |
 | Sichen Liang Master of Science (Thesis) Advised: (9/20 - 5/22) Email: sichen_liang@brown.edu Project: Microfluidics flows in the Brinkman limit including flow past a backward-facing step and flow past a cylinder. |
 | Theo Fernandez Fall 2021 Undergraduate Independent Study Project: Designing and implementing cube satellite communications. |
 | Gabby Shieh Fall 2021 Undergraduate Independent Study Project: SBUDNIC structures subsystem design. |
 | Anya Schmitz Fall 2021 Undergraduate Independent Study Project: Cardiovascular engineering: Fluid dynamic analysis and the cardiovascular system. |
 | Liam Storan Fall 2021 Undergraduate Independent Study Project: Diffusiophoresis in dead-end pores with hydrogel obstacles. |
 | Kento Abeywardane 2021-2022 Senior Independent Research Project: Protein diffusiophoresis via atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. |