People

Team

The Lewis Lab is composed of a dedicated group of students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff. Our group thrives within a highly innovative and collaborative research environment. Our alumni are leaders in the field with successful careers in academia, national laboratories, and industry.  Several alumni have co-founded startup companies based on our scientific discoveries.

Lewis Lab Group Photo, July 2025

Jennifer Lewis

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 has made pioneering contributions to the programmable assembly of functional, structural, and living matter. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has co-founded four startups and currently serves on multiple Scientific Advisory Boards.

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Lab Administration

Jared Fujii
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...
Jared Fujii

Amy Walsh
Senior Research Portfolio Manager
I joined the Lewis Lab as Senior Research Portfolio Manager in July 2021. I spent 25+ years working in community healthcare and with homeless families before making the move to academic grant management. When I am not working, I can be found at the barn...
Amy Walsh

Current Researchers

Mustafa Abdelrahman
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...
Mustafa Abdelrahman

Matthew Chin
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...
Matthew Chin

Brandon Clarke
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.
Brandon Clarke

Mark DeAngelis
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...
Mark DeAngelis

Aidan Duncan
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...
Aidan Duncan

Anika Harding
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...
Anika Harding

Michael Nelwood
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...
Nelwood, Michael

Jason Olszewski
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...
Jason Olszewski

Jonathan Rubins
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.
Jonathan Rubins

Lori K. Sanders
Visualization Specialist
I work closely with the Lewis Lab by providing my photography and videography expertise for group research projects and events. Prior to joining Harvard, I was a researcher, lecturer, and academic advisor in Department of Materials Science & Engineering...
Lori K. Sanders

Daniel Tish
Postdoctoral Researcher
During my doctoral work, I developed carbon-negative, structural biocomposites from photosynthetic microorganisms with applications in the construction sector. At the Lewis Lab, we are advancing this research by expanding the palette of material...
Daniel Tish

Jackson Wilt
Graduate Student (G5)
My research uses advanced fabrication techniques, primarily through Direct Ink Writing, to produce functional designs in soft robotics, shape morphable structures, and other applications requiring multi-material voxelization. In my previous work, I...
Jackson Wilt

Lewis Lab Alumni

We are continually updating our list of Lewis Lab alumni.  If you are a past member of the Lewis Lab and would like to update your information, feel free to reach out to Jared Fujii at jfujii@seas.harvard.edu.