Our team

P.-T. Brun
Principal investigator
P.-T. Brun
Principal investigator
Barath Venkateswaran
Graduate Student
Barath Venkateswaran
Graduate Student
Lauren Dreier
Graduate Student
Lauren Dreier
Graduate Student
Trevor Jones
Graduate Student
Trevor Jones
Graduate Student
Christopher Hushay
Graduate Student
Christopher Hushay
Graduate Student
Lingzhi Cai
Alumni - Former Graduate student
Lingzhi Cai
Alumni - Former Graduate student
Etienne Jambon-Puillet
Alumni - Former Postdoctoral fellow
Etienne Jambon-Puillet
Alumni - Former Postdoctoral fellow
Joel Marthelot
Alumni - Former Postdoctoral fellow
Joel Marthelot
Alumni - Former Postdoctoral fellow
Grace Kresge
Undergraduate Student
Grace Kresge
Undergraduate Student
Ciara P. O’Riordan
Undergraduate student
Ciara P. O’Riordan
Undergraduate student
Maxime Lavech du Bos
Visiting grad student
Maxime Lavech du Bos
Visiting grad student
Bartosz Kaczmarski
Undergraduate student
Bartosz Kaczmarski
Undergraduate student
Mohamed Badaoui
Alumni
Mohamed Badaoui
Alumni
Jonathan Schleifer
Alumni
Jonathan Schleifer
Alumni
Thomas Dupuis
Alumni
Thomas Dupuis
Alumni
Arsène Pierrot
Alumni
Arsène Pierrot
Alumni

Our work

Harnessing fluid mechanical instabilities

Our research is concerned with the directed control of mechanical instabilities to program shapes. In particular, I aim to imagine the future of additive manufacturing and soft robotics with this new set of tools

Mechanical metamaterials

The project proposes to revisit the classic field of deployable structures in the light of the resent advent of mechanical meta-materials.

Our approach

Experimental work

We develop idealized experimental setups to investigate the physics at play in problems ranging from natural phenomena to engineering settings.

Theoretical modeling

We develop mathematical minimal models to rationalize our experimental observations

Our workspace

Energy level
100%
Coffee cups
421
Experiments
814
Laser-cutter
1212