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Postdoctoral Position Available (posted January 2023)
The Physics Department at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA invites applications for a postdoctoral position in experimental soft matter and biological physics. The candidate will have the opportunity to work on a newly funded, highly interdisciplinary project centered on how bacteria and other microbes survive, grow, and interact in the air. The research is motivated by overwhelming evidence that airborne microbes critically impact everyday life, e.g., rainfall, disease spread, land fertilization, and food production. The candidate will help build and optimize acoustic levitators to grow bacteria on isolated particles in analog atmospheric conditions in the laboratory. A major goal of this research is to develop a new way to culture bacteria in the air and use this cutting-edge technology to understand the physiology, metabolism, ecology, and evolution of airborne microbes. The candidate will also be joining a collaborative research team, with physicists and microbiologists at Emory University, and Earth scientists at the University of Oregon. Candidates are requested to send their curriculum vitae including a list of publications to Justin Burton at justin.c.burton@emory.edu and arrange to have 3 recommendation letters sent to the same address. Review of the applications will begin immediately, until the position is filled. The starting date for the position is flexible, from late Spring 2023 - early Fall 2023. Emory is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Therefore, women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. For more information about employment at Emory, please visit https://www.hr.emory.edu/careers/.
The Physics Department at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA invites applications for a postdoctoral position in experimental soft matter and biological physics. The candidate will have the opportunity to work on a newly funded, highly interdisciplinary project centered on how bacteria and other microbes survive, grow, and interact in the air. The research is motivated by overwhelming evidence that airborne microbes critically impact everyday life, e.g., rainfall, disease spread, land fertilization, and food production. The candidate will help build and optimize acoustic levitators to grow bacteria on isolated particles in analog atmospheric conditions in the laboratory. A major goal of this research is to develop a new way to culture bacteria in the air and use this cutting-edge technology to understand the physiology, metabolism, ecology, and evolution of airborne microbes. The candidate will also be joining a collaborative research team, with physicists and microbiologists at Emory University, and Earth scientists at the University of Oregon. Candidates are requested to send their curriculum vitae including a list of publications to Justin Burton at justin.c.burton@emory.edu and arrange to have 3 recommendation letters sent to the same address. Review of the applications will begin immediately, until the position is filled. The starting date for the position is flexible, from late Spring 2023 - early Fall 2023. Emory is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Therefore, women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. For more information about employment at Emory, please visit https://www.hr.emory.edu/careers/.
Current Members
Justin C. Burton
Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2006 justin.c.burton_at_emory.edu curriculum vitae 
Nandish Vora
Undergraduate Student nandish.ketan.vora@emory.edu |
Kavinda Nissanka
Graduate Student kavinda.nissanka_at_emory.edu 
Wentao Yu
Graduate Student wentao.yu@emory.edu 
Michelle Wang
Graduate Student jing.wang@emory.edu |
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Alumni
Dana Harvey - Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Yannic Gagnon - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division
Jonathan Cho - Undergraduate student
Jake McGrath III - Graduate student, University of Texas, Austin
Guram Gogia - ETH (Zurich, postdoc)
Brady Wu - Graduate student, University of Chicago Physics
Tianshu Huang - Graduate student, Yale Applied Physics
Joshua Méndez Harper - Research Scientist, University of Oregon
Ainsley Stanczak - Technical Solutions Engineer, Epic
Xinyi Jiang - Software Engineer at Verint
Devon Becker - Gallery Assistant, Whitespace Gallery
Asher Mouat - Georgia Tech (graduate student)
Dominic Robe - Monash University (postdoc)
Xiaolei Ma - University of Minnesota (postdoc)
Nicholas Cuccia - Harvard University, graduate student in SEAS
Lia Benes - Northwestern University School of Medicine
Justin Pye - SciHub, University of Arizona
Clay Wood - Department of Geosciences, Penn State
Jiaqi Zheng - M.Sc. (2016). Currently at Ohio State University
Stephen Frazier - M.Sc. (2016). Currently at SunFarm Energy
Janna Lowensohn - Brandeis University
Toyin Thompson - Emory University
Juan-José Liétor-Santos - Physical Review (assistant editor)
Rui Wu - New York University
Shivanee Persuad - University of Georgia
Lynn Kaluzienski - University of Maine
Tanaka Sakuringwa - Spelman College
Satwik Nandala - Georgia Tech
Yannic Gagnon - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division
Jonathan Cho - Undergraduate student
Jake McGrath III - Graduate student, University of Texas, Austin
Guram Gogia - ETH (Zurich, postdoc)
Brady Wu - Graduate student, University of Chicago Physics
Tianshu Huang - Graduate student, Yale Applied Physics
Joshua Méndez Harper - Research Scientist, University of Oregon
Ainsley Stanczak - Technical Solutions Engineer, Epic
Xinyi Jiang - Software Engineer at Verint
Devon Becker - Gallery Assistant, Whitespace Gallery
Asher Mouat - Georgia Tech (graduate student)
Dominic Robe - Monash University (postdoc)
Xiaolei Ma - University of Minnesota (postdoc)
Nicholas Cuccia - Harvard University, graduate student in SEAS
Lia Benes - Northwestern University School of Medicine
Justin Pye - SciHub, University of Arizona
Clay Wood - Department of Geosciences, Penn State
Jiaqi Zheng - M.Sc. (2016). Currently at Ohio State University
Stephen Frazier - M.Sc. (2016). Currently at SunFarm Energy
Janna Lowensohn - Brandeis University
Toyin Thompson - Emory University
Juan-José Liétor-Santos - Physical Review (assistant editor)
Rui Wu - New York University
Shivanee Persuad - University of Georgia
Lynn Kaluzienski - University of Maine
Tanaka Sakuringwa - Spelman College
Satwik Nandala - Georgia Tech
Collaborators
Mac Cathles
University of Michigan |
Jason Amundson
University of Alaska, Southeast |