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Kaufman Group - June 2023
(Back Row) Seoa Park, Joe Hammer, Alex Devanny, Iris Sybesma, Karen Yu, Alec Meacham
(Front Row) Han Yang, Hyung Jun Kim, Laura Kaufman, Mindle Shavy Paneth, Jaladhar Mahato
Professor Laura Kaufman
Professor of Chemistry
B.A. Columbia University, 1997.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2002.
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Laura Kaufman graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University in 1997 with a B.A. in Chemistry and English. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2002 from the University of California, Berkeley. There, Laura worked on multi-dimensional Raman spectroscopy of simple liquids in the laboratory of Professor Graham R. Fleming. She went on to do postdoctoral work at Harvard University under the guidance of Professors X. Sunney Xie and David A. Weitz, where she used CARS microscopy to study colloidal glasses and cells in gels.
Laura has been named a NYSTAR Young Investigator, a Beckman Young Investigator, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar, and a Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Member.
Her laboratory is highly interdisciplinary and focuses on the dynamics of complex, crowded systems. In particular, the laboratory studies heterogeneous dynamics in supercooled liquids with single molecule microscopy, the mechanical properties and structure of biopolymer gels using rheology and microscopy, and brain and breast cancer cell invasion in tissue approximations of tailored architecture and biochemistry. In addition to research and teaching, Laura likes to read, run, and explore the city with her family.
Former Members
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Former Postdoctoral Associates
Hyung Jun Kim
Postdoc, Broad Institute
Stephen Spinella
Application Scientist, Dotmatics
Asja Guzman
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Biology
Columbia University
Khanh Hoa Tran-Ba
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Towson University
Jaesung Yang
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Medical Chemistry
Yonsei University - Mirae
Heungman Park
Associate Professor of Physics
Texas A&M University - Commerce
Keewook Paeng
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Sungkyunkwan University
Kevin Stokely
Data Scientist
MindGeek
Ronen Zangi
Professor of Chemistry
University of the Basque Country
Zhihua An
Clinical Associate Professor of Chemistry
New York University
Tobias Herman
Faculty, Department of Physics
Montgomery College
Former Graduate Students
Han Yang
Rachel Avard
Mary Miles Bibb Teaching Fellow and Assistant Professor
Framingham State University
Nicole Mandel
Integrated Physical Sciences Instructor
Western Governors University
Karen Kwon
Research and Special Projects Editor
Science News
Alyssa Manz
Life Sciences Manager
Blue Matter
Dat Hoang
Data Product Manager
Emerson Collective
Michelle Ziperstein
Lawyer, Knobbe-Martens
Jieling Zhu
Associate Director
Seer
Yen Nguyen
Chemistry teacher
Albert Einstein School, Vietnam
Lindsay Leone
Vice President
J.P. Morgan Chase
Matthew Wilhelm
Scientist
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Stephan Mackowiak
Software Engineer
Beckman Coulter
Yali Yang
Evangelos Gatzogiannis
Research Scientist
Princeton University
Cheng Guo
Stephanie Motte
Former Undergraduate Students
Seoa Park
Columbia Undergraduate, Spring 2022 - Fall 2023
Undergraduate student at Columbia GS, c/o 2024
Cheyanne Sparkman
Spelman College, Leadership Alliance Program, Summer 2022
Megan Broad
Cardiff University, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Emily Coty
Columbia Undergraduate, Fall 2021
Max Edeson
Columbia Undergraduate, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
Julia Parsley
Columbia Undergraduate, Spring 2020
Lucas Kampman
Amgen Undergraduate, Summer 2019
Undergraduate Student, University of California, Berkeley
Michelle Vancura
Columbia Undergraduate, Spring 2016 - Spring 2019
Research Technician, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University
Cameron Danesh-Pajou
Columbia Undergraduate, Summer 2017 - Fall 2018
Undergraduate student at Columbia SEAS, c/o 2020
Ethan Chen
Columbia Undergraduate and Beckman Scholar, Spring 2018 - Fall 2018
Undergraduate student at Columbia College, c/o 2021
Daniel Lee
Columbia Undergraduate, Spring 2015 - Spring 2018
Graduate Student in Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Masih Babagoli
Columbia Undergraduate, Spring 2017 - Spring 2018
Medical Student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Mika Aly
Columbia Undergraduate, Summer 2017-Spring 2018
Clinical Application Analyst, BronxCare Health System
Eva Farkas
Columbia Undergraduate, Spring 2017-Spring 2018
Clinical Research Coordinator, Massachusetts General Hospital
Meng Lou
Amgen Undergraduate Student, Summer 2017
IRTA post-bac at the NIH
James Oh Sang Kweon
Columbia College, 2014-2017
Graduate student in Chemistry at Yale University
Andrew Proto
Columbia Postbac Premed Student, 2015-2016
Dental student at Boston University
Catherine Zhang
Columbia Undergraduate 2015
Research Associate at The Broad Institute
Akul Arora
Columbia Undergraduate 2013 - 2014
Senior Consultant, Oliver Wyman
Matthew Levine
Columbia Undergraduate 2012 - 2014
Graduate Student in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech
Esha Maharishi
Columbia Undergraduate 2013 - 2014
Software Engineer at MongoDB, Inc.
Holly Hajare
AMGEN Summer Student, 2013
Graduate Student at Stanford University (Chemistry)
John Raffles Durbin
AMGEN Summer Student, 2013
dancer at Neville Dance Theatre
Alana Warhit
Columbia Undergradate Fall 2012
Medical Resident, Psychiatry, Weill Cornell
Hector Acaron
AMGEN Summer Student, 2012
Graduate Student at University of Chicago (Molecular Engineering)
Chaitanya Medicherla
Columbia Undergraduate 2009-2012
Medical Resident, Neurology, NYU
Ben Kwok
Columbia Undergraduate 2009-2012
Medical Resident, Internal Medicine, NYU
Jade Noble
Columbia Undergraduate 2010-2012 (excluding Summer 2011)
Graduate Student at Cornell University (Chemical Engineering)
Amanuel Beyene
NSF-REU and GSAS-SRP Summer Student, Summer 2005
Consultant at Accenture
Allison Cohen
Columbia Undergraduate, 2005-2006
Imaging Research Scientist at Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science
Jessica Cohen
Columbia Undergraduate, 2005-2006
Scientist at GSK Vaccines
Brenda Rubenstein
NSF-REU Summer Student, Summer 2006
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Brown University
Michael Agne
Columbia Undergraduate and Rabi Scholar, 2007
Senior Associate at Charles River Associates
Krithika Kavanoor
Barnard Undergraduate, 2006-2008; Research Technician, Fall 2008
Department of Family Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center
Christian Gluck
Columbia Undergraduate, 2006-2008; Resesarch Technician, Fall 2008 - Summer 2009
MD/PhD student at SUNY Buffalo
Megan Choy
Columbia Undergraduate and Rabi Scholar, 2006-2009
Actuarial Analyst at Milliman
Charlie Sun
IGERT Summer Student, 2009
Application Developer at JPMorgan Chase
Laura Fox
NSF-REU Summer Student, 2010
Assistant Teaching Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University
Sriram Garikapati
Summer Student, 2011
Anna Starikovsky
Columbia Postbac Premed Student, 2010-2011
Medical Resident, Neurology, NY Presbyterian
Milna Rufin
Columbia Postbac Premed Student, 2011-2012
Medical Resident, Primary Care, NYU Langone
Dave Lieberman
Columbia Postbac Premed Student 2011-2012
Medical Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania