People

Mustafa Abdelrahman

mabdelrahman@seas.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Mustafa is interested in imparting logic within soft matter to realize programmable, reversible, and robust shape-changing soft materials capable of sensing and responding to environmental cues. Ultimately, Mustafa is curious about the role processing...

Matthew Chin

mhwchin@seas.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Matthew’s research focuses on engineering vascularized, biofabricated cancer models to study immune cell migration and tumor-immune interactions. He is particularly interested in how structural and physical factors synergize with biochemical cues to...

Brandon Clarke

bclarke@seas.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Brandon is interested in bottlebrush materials, machine learning, and the additive manufacturing of multimaterial structures. He especially desires to program mechanical properties into synthetic soft matter via careful control over polymer chemistry.

Marjorie de la Rosa Mejia

marjorie.delarosamejia@wyss.harvard.edu

Research Assistant III

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Mark DeAngelis

mark_deangelis@seas.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

My research interests are focused on integrating robotics and automation into additive manufacturing workflows to rapidly develop new printable materials and enhance printing capabilities. Overall, I am particularly interested in leveraging robotic...

Aidan Duncan

aidan_duncan@seas.harvard.edu

Research Engineer

My research focuses on how the microscopic structure and dynamics of soft and granular materials govern their macroscopic mechanical and functional behavior. I aim to leverage these insights to design novel soft materials, with a particular focus on...

Jared Fujii

jfujii@seas.harvard.edu

Faculty Coordinator

I joined the Lewis Lab as Faculty Coordinator in September 2021 after spending a year and a half helping to support the Mooney Lab at SEAS. Previously I was a middle school teacher, with both history and science experience. My research interests include...

Anika Harding

anika_harding@seas.harvard.edu

Research Engineer

My research focuses on developing multi-material 3D printing platforms and custom built tool heads for applications in soft robotics, printed electronics, bioprinting, and stimuli responsive architectures. I am particularly interested in combining...

Jennifer Lewis

jalewis@seas.harvard.edu

Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering

Jianming Yu Professor of Arts and Sciences

Jennifer Lewis is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Jennifer...

Michael Nelwood

mnelwood@g.harvard.edu

Research Engineer

Stanford University, B.S.H. Bioengineering NSF Graduate Research Fellow My research interests are in developing functional tissue with the long-term goal of whole organ engineering for transplantation. In the Lewis Lab, I am working on improving...

Jason Olszewski

jolszewski@seas.harvard.edu

Graduate Student (G3)

My research focuses on achieving physiologically relevant microvascularization in cellularly dense tissues to recapitulate native architecture and function. Ultimately, I aim to engineer biomimetic tissues to enhance the accessibility and efficacy of...

Jonathan Rubins

jonathan_rubins@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Student (G6)

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.