Amy Shen email: aqshen@me.wustl.edu Jolley Hall 204 Phone: +1 (314) 935-7659 FAX: +1 (314) 935-4014 Washington University Campus Box 1185 St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Check Soft Matter Lab

 Amy Shen
 Assistant Professor (2002)

• Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

 Background :

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2000-2002.

  Honors and Awards:

 Research Interests:

• Self-assembled nanostructures of complex fluids
  
  • Self-assembly of colloidal suspensions
    
  • Self-assembly of biofluids under dip coating
    
  
  
• Coating dynamics of Complex Fluids
  
  • Fiber coating with surfactant solutions, micellar dynamics.
    
  • Roll coating with polymer solutions and latex solutions.
    
  • Coating with nano-colloidal suspensions.
    
  
  
• Rheology of Biofluids and Microfluidics
  
  • Rheology of tissues
    
  • Liquid crystals and nematic LC in microchannels
    
  • Rheology of granular materials and slurries.
    
  
  
• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
  
  • Wave formation of granular materials and aeolian ripples
    
  • Impact cratering
    
  • Granular jets
    
  • Lava flow

 See more details of my research under Soft Matter Lab