Our People

Principal Investigator

Wouter-Jan Rappel

Wouter-Jan Rappel

Distinguished research scientist

Wouter-Jan Rappel is in the Department of Physics at UC San Diego. His research focuses on understanding complex biological systems using theoretical and computational approaches. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, and has been at UCSD since 1997.

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of California, San Diego
  • M.S., Physics, University of Leiden
  • B.S., Physics, University of Leiden
rappel@physics.ucsd.edu

Current Members

Mahesh Kumar Mulimani

Mahesh Kumar Mulimani

Postdoctoral researcher

Machine learning in biology

mmulimani@ucsd.edu
Michael Reiss

Michael Reiss

Graduate student

Repeating pattern analysis and cardiac dynamics

m1reiss@ucsd.edu
Sebastian Echeverria Alar

Sebastian Echeverria Alar

Postdoctoral researcher

Cardiac dynamics and cellular organization

seecheverriaalar@ucsd.edu

Sanchi Saitia

Sanchi Saitia

Graduate Student

Experimental cell dynamics

ssaita@ucsd.edu

Yi-Chiech Lai

Yi-Chiech Lai

Graduate student

Multi-cellular organization

y9lia@physics.ucsd.edu

Alumni

Yuansheng Cao

Assistant prof at Tsinghua University, Beijing

Man-Ho (Marco) Tang

Applied Scientist, Amazon

Timothy Tyree

Postdoctoral researcher at Cortical Systems & Behavior Laboratory UCSD

Aravind Karanam

Postdoctoral researcher at Rochester Institute of technology

Arabinda Behera

Postdoctoral fellow at IMC (Institute of Mathematical sciences, Chennai)

Dorsa Elmi

University lecturer at SDSU

Richa Karmakar

Assistant Professor at IIT Madras

Brian Camley

Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Univeristy

Elisabeth Ghabache

Scientist, Illumina

Haicen Yue

Assistant Professor at University of Vermont

Inbal Hecht

Optibus, Inc.

Danying Shao

R&D Engineer, Penn State University

Bo Hu

Assistant Professor at George Mason University

Wen Chen

Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University

Undergraduate Students

  • Nam Nguyen
  • Kayla Chun
  • Allecia Dodd-Noble
  • Ritam Das
  • David He
  • Jason Oh
  • Bita Sadeghi
  • Steven Ngo
  • Alexander Sumarli