• Non-equilibrium dynamics of bacterial suspensions
• Cytoskeletal polymers in animal cell migration
• Engineering microfluidic technologies for cell culture assays
• Rheology of active cellular materials

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Immunofluorescence image of mouse embryo fibroblasts showing DNA (blue), actin (red), and vimentin intermediate filaments (green), which form a perinuclear cage.

2016 Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2016 M.A. in Mechanical Engineering

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2011 B.S. Physics

B.S. Mathematics

Kutztown University

• 2018 Dissertation Award in Statistical and Non-linear Physics, American Physical Society
• 2012 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
• 2011 Syed R. Ali-Zaidi Award for Academic Excellence, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education

A. E. Patteson*, A. Gopinath*, and P. E. Arratia. Active colloids in complex fluids. Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 21 86-96, arXiv:1602.02693 (2016).

A. E. Patteson, A. Gopinath, P. K. Purhot, and P. E. Arratia. Particle diffusion in active fluids is non-monotonic in size. Soft Matter 12 2365, arXiv:1505:05803 (2016).

A. E. Patteson, A. Gopinath, M. Goulian, and P. E. Arratia. Running and tumbling with E. coli in polymeric solutions. Scientific Reports 5 15761, arXiv:1511.00708 (2015).

A. E. Koser, L. Pan, N. C. Keim, and P. E. Arratia. Measuring material relaxation and creep recovery in a microfluidic device Lab on a Chip. 13 1850 (2013).

*Denote equal contribution