My research combines fluid mechanics, soft matter physics, and applied mathematics to understand how complex fluid systems in biology and engineering self-organize through the interplay of mechanics, transport, and microstructure. I also develop computational methods to simulate their dynamic behavior, working closely with experimental collaborators to connect theory and observation.

Currently, I study the mechanics of the cell nucleus and its components. I build mechanistic models and computational frameworks to study chromatin, the functional form of DNA in eukaryotic cells, as a biopolymer immersed in nucleoplasmic fluid and subject to various mechanical forces. I also investigate how cells respond to nuclear rupture, a process linked to DNA damage in cancer, by developing a coarse-grained model that captures the dynamics of nuclear recovery consistent with experimental findings.

During my Ph.D., I studied interfacially driven flows in electrohydrodynamic and active nematic systems. These flows arise from mechanical stresses acting on deformable interfaces, a scenario common in many biological and engineering contexts. Through hydrodynamic simulations, I demonstrated how coupling between flow, interfacial transport, and surface deformation can generate diverse dynamic behaviors in viscous drops with interfacial activity or under applied electric fields. I have also worked on problems involving the physics of non-Brownian suspensions and the rheology of complex fluids.