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:

• Complex fluids under confinement and flow
  
  • Complex fluid (liquid crystal, polymer solutions) instability inside microfluidic devices
    
  • Sol-gel dynamics and nanoporous materials
    
  • Rheological and surface effects at small length scales
    
  
  
• Biomimetics
  
  • Smart plant proteins and microvalves
    
  • Smart worms and mechanosensing/locomotion
    
  
  
• Bio-MEMs and Rheology
  
  • Rheology of artifical lens, wormlike micellar solutions
    
  • Axon injury in microdevice
    
  • Non-toxic lipid tubule formation by confinement
    
  
  
• 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