Lewis Lab

Prof. Jennifer Lewis, Sc.D. MIT

Wyss Professor

CV

Contact Information:

Pierce Hall 221

Email: jalewis@seas.harvard.edu

Phone #: 617-496-0233

Lewis Lab_Group Photo

Lab Manager

Scott Slimmer

University of Illinois, Materials Science and Engineering, PhD

NWL B148.10

slimmer@seas.harvard.edu

Jared Fujii

Faculty Coordinator

Pierce Hall

jfujii@seas.harvard.edu

Research Associates

Daniele Foresti

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, PhD
Society in Science - Branco Weiss Fellow

The inherent limits of the existing printing technologies strongly restrict the range of possible inks (i.e.materials) that can be dispensed, hence the potential applications of such technologies. Could we do better? As a Branco Weiss fellow, I will investigate a new concept of printing mechanism based on ultrasound. By using acoustic forces any ink could be potentially printed on any substrate.

NWL B146.40

dforesti@seas.harvard.edu

Daniel S. Reynolds

Boston University, PhD

During his Ph.D., Daniel developed 3D in vitro tumor models to study how the tumor microenvironment’s physical properties contribute to cancer progression. At the Lewis Research Group, Daniel’s research focuses on using 3D bioprinting to manufacture vascularized biological tissues for applications in both regenerative medicine and disease modeling.

NWL B146.40

dreynolds@seas.harvard.edu

Benito Román-Manso

Institute of Ceramics and Glass (CSIC) & Autonomous University in Madrid, PhD

Benito received his PhD degree in 2015 after carrying out studies in SiC ceramics and graphene-ceramic composites in the Institute of Ceramics and Glass (ICV-CSIC) in Madrid. The aim was the enhancement of the physical properties of these ceramic-based materials, fabricated both as bulk and as 3D-printed scaffold structures. In the Lewis group, Benito’s research is centered on the development of novel, 3D-printed ceramics with different functionalities.

NWL B161

romanmanso@seas.harvard.edu

Sébastien G. M. Uzel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD

Sebastien received his PhD from the department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT under the supervision of Pr. Roger Kamm. There, he developed microfluidic devices to expose cells to complex and dynamic concentration profiles within a 3D extracellular matrix. In addition, by combining optogenetic technology and microfluidics, Sebastien designed a platform that allowed compartmentalized 3D coculture of lightexcitable motor neurons and muscle cells. In the Lewis Lab, Sebastien's research focuses on utilizing 3D bioprinting to engineer vascularized and functional biological tissues. He is also interested in the development of tools and strategies to enhance the scale and versatility of 3D printing.

NWL B146.40

suzel@g.harvard.edu

Post-docs

Alex Ainscough

Imperial College London, M.Sc., M.Res., Ph.D.

For his PhD, Alex developed an organ-on-chip model of a blood vessel to study Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) and uncovered a novel signalling axis by... Read more about Alex Ainscough

Jaehyeong Bae

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, PhD

In the Lewis Lab, Jaehyeong focuses his research on the development of bioelectronics and chemical sensors by using 3D-printed hydrogels....

Dylan Barber

Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.A., Chemistry, Williams College

Dylan is curious about nozzle and ink design to realize stimulus-responsive soft materials through a combination of vasculature, photoactive materials, and... Read more about Dylan Barber

Northwest Lab, Room B154

dbarber@seas.harvard.edu

Zoey Davidson

University of Pennsylvania, PhD

Zoey received his PhD in soft matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania and then moved to the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems where he developed electrically driven liquid crystal elastomer actuators. In the Clarke and Lewis groups, his research focuses on materials and device design to improve performance and fabrication of electrically driven soft actuators. Using materials and methods such as liquid crystal elastomers and 3D printing, he is creating new actuation mechanisms for soft robotics with an eye on the fundamental physics to better understand these systems.

NWL B148.30

zsdavidson@seas.harvard.edu

Arda Kotikian

Harvard University, PhD

I am working on programming 3D shape change in actuators by controlling molecular orientation at the filamentary scale while programming structure at the macroscopic scale via direct ink writing. I am especially interested in developing 3D liquid crystal elastomer actuators for use in soft robotics.

NWL B148.30

akotikian@g.harvard.edu

Natalie Larson

University of California Santa Barbara, PhD

During her PhD, Natalie developed methods to study microstructure evolution in ceramic matrix composites using X-ray computed tomography. In the Lewis Lab, her research is focused on multimaterial 3D printing of structural and functional materials with locally tailored structure and composition.

NWL B148.10

nmlarson@seas.harvard.edu

Maxwell Nagarajan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD

During his PhD, Max developed quantitative methods to profile microRNA from fixed tissue using microfabrication and microfluidics techniques. In the Lewis Lab, Max is using 3D bioprinting to fabricate skin tissue models.

NWL B148.30

mnagarajan@seas.harvard.edu

Andrew Spielberg

B.S. Cornell University '10 (Engineering Physics and Computer Science)
M.Eng. Cornell University '11 (Computer Science)
PhD MIT '21 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

I develop algorithms to co-design novel types of rigid and soft robots in form and behavior, and automatically fabricate them. My research... Read more about Andrew Spielberg

Northwest B146.40

aespielberg@seas.harvard.edu

Benjamin Steimle

Pennsylvania State University, PhD

Ben received his PhD in chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University in 2021, where he developed synthetic methods to generate composition-tunable... Read more about Benjamin Steimle

Northwest Lab, Room B148.30

bsteimle@g.harvard.edu

Ronald van Gaal

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, PhD

My research focuses on tackling challenges of kidney organoid technology, mainly fluid handling and scaling. Overcoming these challenges enables us... Read more about Ronald van Gaal

ESL 101

rvgaal@seas.harvard.edu

Kayla Wolf

University of California, Berkeley - University of California, San Francisco, PhD

Kayla received her PhD in Bioengineering from the joint program at University of California, Berkeley - University of California, San Francisco. There, she studied how tumor cell-microenvironment interactions accelerate tumor invasion and could therefore be leveraged as therapeutic targets. In the Lewis Lab, Kayla is focused on developing functional tissue models to advance drug screening and discovery.... Read more about Kayla Wolf

NW B148.30 / ESL 101

kaylawolf@seas.harvard.edu

Graduate Students

Jeffrey Aceves (G3)

University of California-Merced, Bioengineering, BS

I work with the bioprinting team and am interested in scaling up our kidney organoid models to print scalable, vascularized tissues. I also aim to develop improved proximal tubule models for disease modeling and drug screening.

ESL101/ NWL B148.30

jaceves@g.harvard.edu

John Ahrens (G6)

Stanford University, Biomechanical Engineering, BS

I am interested in 3D printing scalable, vascularized tissues that could improve current stem cell derived disease models and regenerative therapies.

ESL 101

ahrensj@g.harvard.edu

Manon Blache

ETH Lausanne, Chemical and Process Engineering, BS

I am a visiting master student interested on multi-disciplinary projects at the interface of biology, medicine and engineering. As part of my master’s thesis,... Read more about Manon Blache

ESL 101

mblache@seas.harvard.edu

Katharina T. Kroll (G5)

University of Freiburg, Molecular Medicine, MSc

As part of the bioprinting team, I am investigating printing of hierarchical blood vessel systems with complex cellular interactions. Scaling up the bioprinting approach to incorporate biologically relevant geometries and cellular variety could be the next step towards building functional tissues mimicking complexity and organization of tissue physiology.

NWL B148.30

kkroll@g.harvard.edu

Aric Lu (G4)

University of Delaware, Electrical Engineering, HBEE

I work with the bioprinting team to develop materials and methods to model human systems in vitro.

NWL B148.30

j_lu@g.harvard.edu

Carlos Marquez (G1)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Biomedical Engineering, B.S.
NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Harvard University Graduate Prize Fellow

I am interested in developing physiologically relevant tissue and organ systems for human...

Jalilah Muhammad (G3)

Southern University and A&M College, Chemistry, BS

I am interested in programming embedded 3D printed structures with liquid crystal elastomers as artificial muscles to advance the technology of soft robotics and assistive devices.

jmuhammad@g.harvard.edu

Jonathan Rubins (G1)

Brown University, Biomedical Engineering, Sc.B.
Harvard University Graduate Prize Fellowship

I am currently optimizing extracellular matrices for vascularization of stem cell-derived kidney organoids. Ultimately, I am interested in developing functional kidney tissues for in vivo transplantation.

ESL 101, Northwest B148.30

jonathan_rubins@g.harvard.edu

Paul Stankey (G1)

Yale University, B.S. Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering

I'm working with the bioprinting team to embed vasculature into thick cardiac tissues with complex geometries.

ESL 101

paulstankey@g.harvard.edu

Rodrigo Telles (G4)

University of California, Berkeley, Chemical Engineering, BS

I am interested in the fabrication and design of soft active materials with locally tailorable mechanical properties for soft robotics applications.

NWL B148.30

rtelles@g.harvard.edu

Connor Verheyen (G4)

Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program

I’m a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program who is co-advised by Professor Lewis. My research is focused on in vivo and in vitro additive manufacturing techniques for patient-specific therapies.

connorv@mit.edu

Robert Weeks (G4)

University of Waterloo, Mechanical Engineering, BASc
Research Fellow

The setup and fine tuning of all the different parameters in additive manufacturing often takes much longer than the actual print itself. I am interested in the development of novel additive manufacturing systems with process feedback to decrease setup time, increase printing throughput and optimize print quality.

NWL B148.30

rweeks@g.harvard.edu

Research Fellows/Scientists

Ramsey Doolittle

Rochester Institute of Technology, Biomedical Engineering, BS
Visiting Postgraduate Research Fellow

As a Research Engineer in the bioprinting team at the Lewis Research Group, Ramsey’s work focuses on the development of materials and hardware used in... Read more about Ramsey Doolittle

ESL 101

rdoolittle@g.harvard.edu

Szilvia Heja

Research Assistant III

In collaboration with Professor Lewis we studied physiology of the cortical collecting duct using 3D kidney-on-a-chip model at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. I am interested in developing 3D printed tissue models to better understand kidney physiology and pathomechanism of renal diseases, focusing on drug induced nephrotoxicity.

NWL B176

szilvia.heja@wyss.harvard.edu

Mariana Mata

Research Assistant III

As part of the bioprinting team, I work closely with post-docs and graduate students in 3D organoid engineering projects. I am interested in how organoid-on-chip models can assess immune responses in different tissues.

mariana.mata@wyss.harvard.edu

Nils Pasquero

ETH Zurich, Chemical and Process Engineering, BS

I am interested in designing functionalized hydrogels for biologics encapsulation, with the aim of enabling drug delivery applications of acoustophoretic printing. As a part of a multidisciplinary team, I work at the intersection between polymer chemistry, molecular biology, and biomedical engineering.

NWL B176

npasquero@seas.harvard.edu

Former Group Members (2001 - Present)

Name	Year	Currently at	Thesis
David Kolesky	PhD (2016)	Flagship Pioneering	3D Bioprinting of Vascularized Human Tissues
Mike Lis	Post-doc	E Ink Corporation
Nanjia Zhou	Post-doc	Westlake University
Claas Visser	Post-doc	University of Twente
MIT Lincoln Laboratory	Post-doc	MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Mark Skylar-Scott	Post-doc	Stanford University
Alex Chortos	Post-doc	Purdue University
Sanlin Robinson	Post-doc	Safar Partners
Radhika Poduval	Post-doc	Harvard Medical School
Emily Davidson	Post-doc	Princeton University
Dimitri Kokkinis	Post-doc
Neil Lin	Post-doc	UCLA
Kimberly Homan	Post-doc	Genentech
Ryan Truby	PhD (2018)	MIT	Embedded Three-Dimensional Printing of Autonomous and Somatosensitive Soft Robots
William Boley	Post-doc	Boston University
Teng-Sing Wei	PhD (2017)	Faegre Drinker	Electrode Suspensions with Tailored Flow Behavior and Electrochemical Performance for Multiscale Lithium Ion Batteries
Joseph Muth	PhD (2017)	Nike	Architected Cellular Ceramics via Direct Foam Writing
Alexander Valentine	Research Fellow	Boston University
Sydney Gladman	PhD (2016)	Exponent	Biomimetic 4D Printing
Jordan R. Raney	Post-doc	University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Ober	Post-doc	Bank of America
Analisa Russo	PhD (2014)	Formlabs	Pen-on-Paper Electronics
James Hardin	Post-doc	AFRL
Brett Compton	Post-doc	University of Tennessee, Knoxville
David Lorang	M.S. (2013)	Intel
Brett Walker	PhD (2013)	U of I/Electroninks Incorporated	Synthesis and patterning of reactive silver inks
Chris Hansen	PhD (2011)	UMass Lowell	Self-healing materials and multinozzle printheads with embedded microvascular networks
Elizabeth Glogowski	Post-doc	University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Willie Wu	PhD (2010)	Intel	Direct Ink Writing of Microvascular Networks
Adam DeConinck	M.S. (2010)	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Fabrication, Dynamics, and Self-Assembly of Anisotropic Colloidal Particles
Sara T. Parker	PhD (2010)	Intel	Direct-write assembly of 3D microperiodic scaffolds for tissue engineering applications Direct-write assembly of 3D microperiodic scaffolds for tissue engineering applications
Rob F. Shepherd	PhD (2010)	Cornell University	Microfluidic assembly and packing dynamics of colloidal granules
Eric Duoss	PhD (2009)	LLNL
Jacinta Conrad	Post-doc	University of Houston
Jun Yoshikawa	PhD (2009)	NGK	Comb Polymer Architecture and Particle Size Effects on the Behavior of Biphasic Nanoparticle Inks for Direct-Write Assembly
Summer Rhodes	PhD (2009)	Sandia National Labs	Structure, Dynamics and Flow Behavior of Model Biphasic Colloidal Mixtures
Eric Duoss	PhD (2009)	LLNL	Sol-Gel and Nanoparticle Inks for Direct-Write Assembly of Functional Metal Oxide and Metallic Materials
Dan Harris	PhD (2008)	Intel	Patterning Colloidal Films via Evaporative Lithography
Ranjeet Rao	PhD (2007)	PARC	Biphasic Nanoparticl Inks for Direct Write Assembly of 3-D Periodic Structures
Mingjie Xu	PhD (2007)	Intel	Inorganic Hybrids Templated From 3-D Polyelectrolyte Scaffolds Assembled Via Direct Ink Writing
Ketan Bhatt	Post-doc
Angel Chan	MD/PhD (2007)	Johns Hopkins University	Nanoparticle Engineering of Colloidal Suspsension Behavior
Ali Mohraz	Post-doc	UC Irvine
Mark Roberts	M.S. (2005)	BP	Rheological properties and micro-particle imaging velocimetry of model colloidal fluids and gels
Greg Gratson	PhD (2005)	General Electric	Colloidal and Polyelectrolyte Inks For Direct-Write Assembly of 3D Periodic Structures
Sarah Michna	M.S. (2004)		Directed Assembly of 3-D Hydroxyapatite Scaffolds
Glen Kirby	PhD (2003)	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	PAA/PEO Comb Polymer Effects on the Rheological Property Evolution in Concentrated Cement Suspensions
James Smay	PhD (2002)	Oaklahoma State University	Directed Colloidal Assembly and Characterization of PZT-Polymer Composites
Carlos J. Martinez	PhD (2002)	Purdue University	Structure and Property Evolution During Film Formation From Binary Colloidal Suspensions
Valeria Tohver Milam	PhD (2002)	Georgia Institute of Technology	Phase Behavior, Structure, and Properties of Colloidal Microsphere-Nanoparticle Mixtures
Mariusz Twardowski	Post-doc	MIT
James Gilchrist	Post-doc	Lehigh University
Mike Bevan	Post-doc	Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Jennifer A. Lewis

Lab Manager

Research Associates

Post-docs

Graduate Students

Research Fellows/Scientists

Former Group Members (2001 - Present)