Upcoming Talks

March 2026: APS Global Physics Summit, Denver, CO
January 2026: KITP Conference on “Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics”, Santa Barbara, CA (Invited Talk)

Recent Talks (Selected)

November 2025: AIChE Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Engineering earth-mimetic sustainable mechanical materials

October 2025: Materials, Chemistry and Materials (MCM) Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
Emergent mechanics in earth-mediated complex materials (Invited Talk)

March 2025: APS Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, CA
Materials Geomimicry: A new paradigm in earth-inspired materials mechanics (Invited Talk)

February 2025: Mid-Atlantic Geobiology Symposium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Microplastics, microbes, and the emergence of bioconvection (Invited Talk)

December 2024: Soft, Fluid, Living Matter (SoFLivMat) Coffee Hour, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Engineering nature-inspired mechanical (Invited Talk)

October 2024: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
Colloidal surface-anisotropy toolbox for engineering suspension flow
Tuning mechanical failure in multiphase soft particulate systems

October 2024: Society of Rheology (SOR) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX
Ductile-to-brittle transition in Soft Earth particulate systems
Multiscale rheo-tribological origins of baseball mud gripping mechanics

June, 2023: ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symposium, Raleigh, NC
Frictional interactions anneal yielding mechanics in soft earth suspensions (Invited Talk: Victor K. LaMer Award Finalist)

March, 2023: APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
Material constraints dictate flow mechanics in dense suspension rheology (Invited Talk: Soft Matter Postdoctoral Session Speaker)

March 2022: APS March Meeting, Chicago, IL
Elucidating the effects of surface roughness-induced geometric frustration on the linear viscoelastic moduli in dense colloidal suspensions

July, 2021: ACS Colloids & Surface Science Symposium (Virtual)
Probing contact microstructure in shear thickening colloidal suspensions (Invited Talk: Langmuir Graduate Student Award Finalist)