Ha Research Group

 University of Illinois directory

Professor of Physics, Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Co-Director of the Center for the Physics of Living Cells (CPLC).
Taekjip Ha

BS, Seoul National University, Korea, 1990, physics

MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1991, physics

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1996, physics

Research Assistant Professor and Coordinator for Outreach and Education, CPLC

Jaya Yodh

BA, Cornell University, New York, 1987, biology w/biochemistry concentration

PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, 1993, biochemistry

Post-doctoral Research Associates

Matthew Comstock

BS, University of Chicago, 2000, physics

PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 2008, physics

Peter Cornish

 

BS, Graceland University, Iowa, 2000, biology, chemistry, mathematics

PhD, Texas A&M University, 2005, biochemistry

Yuji Ishitsuka

 

BS, Wheaton College, Illinois, 2000, chemistry

MS, University of Chicago, Illinois, 2001, chemistry

PhD, University of Chicago, Illinois, 2006, chemistry

Hajin Kim

BS, Seoul National University, S. Korea, 1999, physics

MS, Seoul National University, S. Korea, 2001, physics

PhD, Seoul National University, S. Korea, 2006, physics

Gwangrog Lee

BS, Sungkyunkwan University, S. Korea, 1997, mechanical engineering

MS, Sungkyunkwan University, S. Korea, 2000, mechanical engineering

PhD, Duke University, North Carolina, 2006, mechanical engineering

Benjamin Leslie

BA, Colgate University, New York, 2003, Chemistry (cum laude)

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2009, Chemistry

Michael Schlierf

MS, LMU Munchen, Germany, 2004, physics

PhD, TU Munchen, Germany, 2008, physics

Xinghua Shi

BS, University of Science and Technology, China, 2001, chemical physics

PhD, Stanford University, California, 2007, biophysical chemistry

Graduate Research Assistants

Sinan Arslan

 

MS, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2002, physics

BS,  Bilkent University, Turkey, 1999, physics

Michael Brenner

BS, University of Georgia, Athens, 2005, biochemistry and molecular biology

Ibrahim Cisse

 

BS, North Carolina Central University, 2004, physics

MS, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2005, physics

Jiajie Diao

 

BS, Xian Jiaotong University, China, 2001

Sultan Doganay

BS, Koc University, Turkey, 2007, physics

Ankur Jain

BS, IIT-Kharagpur, India, 2007, biotechnology and biochemical engineering

Prakrit Jena

 

BS, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2005, physics and mathematics

Kyung Suk Lee

 

BS, Seoul National University, Korea, 2006

Cheng Liu

 

BS, University of Science & Technology, China, 2004, physics

Jeehae Park

BS, Yonsei University, Korea, 2004, biotechnology 

Seongjin Park

BS, Seoul National University, S. Korea, 2006, physics and mathematics

Kaushik Ragunathan

 

B.Tech, PSG College of Technology, 2005, biotechnology

Salman Syed

BS, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2005, molecular and cellular biology

Reza Vafabakhsh

 

Ruobo Zhou

 

BS, University of Science and Technology, China, 2005, physics

Visiting/Collaborating Scientists
Jung Min Yoo

BS, Andong National University, S. Korea, 1996, Biology

MS, Andong National University, S. Korea, 1998, Biology

Support Personnel
Julia Hall

MA, 1966 & 1968

GMA, 2004; MRS, 2009