Dynamics and interactions of particles in a thermophoretic trap
Foster, Benjamin et al. (2017). "Dynamics and interactions of particles in a thermophoretic trap." Proc. SPIE 10347.
CV
Education
- B.A. in Physics, University of Chicago, 2018
- Ph.D in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 2023
Work experience
- Summer 2015: Macromolecule Database Creation Metcalf Intern
- Studied polymer physics
- Read and tagged polymer physics papers for thermodynamic coefficients
- Summer 2015: Ultragenyx Summer Clinical Operations Intern
- Managed migration of several clinical trial master files centered on genetic diseases to an online repository
- Summer 2017: James Frank Institute Summer Fellowship
- Worked in the lab of Cheng Chin at the University of Chicago studying dynamics of thermophoretically levitated particles
- Performed experiments, analyzed data, and constructed low pressure cold trap and imaging experimental apparatus to record dynamics of micron-scale particles
Skills
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Fluid mechanics
- Elasticity
- Programming
- Python
- Fortran
- Mathematica
- Matlab
Publications
Pressure-driven wrinkling of soft inner-lined tubes
Benjamin Foster et al 2022 New J. Phys. 24 013026
Universal wrinkling of supported elastic rings
Benjamin Foster, Nicolás Verschueren, Edgar Knobloch, and Leonardo Gordillo Phys. Rev. Lett. 129 , 164301.
Elastic fingering in a Hele-Shaw cell
Benjamin Foster and Edgar Knobloch. Phys. Rev. E. 107 , 065104.
Collisions of localized patterns in a nonvariational Swift-Hohenberg equation
Mathi Raja, Adrian van Kan, Benjamin Foster, and Edgar Knobloch. Phys. Rev. E. 107 , 064214.
Talks
Pressure-Driven Wrinkling of Soft Inner-Lined Tubes
Talk at SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, Portland, USA [virtual]
Pressure-Driven Wrinkling of Soft Inner-Lined Tubes
Talk at SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Bremen, Germany
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Active mentor in the Physics Directed Reading Program at UC Berkeley.
- Mentored 4 students through semester long program reading textbooks and papers on nonlinear and fluid dynamics.
- Pi2 Program Mentor
- Co-Mentor to 2 undergraduate students through a summer research program which required them to write a proposal, perform research, and write a capstone paper summarizing their results.