Our Team
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Raghavendra (Rag) graduated from BITS Pilani in 2019 with a B.E. in Chemical Engineering. After graduation, he worked as a research assistant at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (TIFR) from 2019-2021. At Columbia, he is working with Kumar Research Group and Bishop Lab on computational soft matter physics.
Michele obtained a BSc in Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, and a MSc and PhD at Imperial College London in Theory and Simulation of Materials. His research spans polymer physics, statistical thermodynamics and polymer degradation, with applications to gels, vitrimers, membranes and thermoplastics
Kyle Bishop received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University under the guidance of Bartosz Grzybowski. Following his PhD, Dr. Bishop was a post-doctoral fellow with George Whitesides at Harvard University. He started his independent career at Penn State University in the Department of Chemical Engineering. In 2016, Dr. Bishop moved to Columbia University, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Bishop has been recognized by the 3M Non-tenured Faculty award and the NSF CAREER award. His research seeks to discover, understand, and apply new strategies for organizing and directing colloidal matter through self-assembly and self-organization far-from-equilibrium.
Femke graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023 with a Bachelor's degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering. She joined the group in 2024 and her project is a collaboration between the Obermeyer Group and the Bishop Group. Her research is on active complex coacervates as a model for biomolecular condensates with internal structures.
Originally from Ohio, Eric joined the Bishop Lab in 2026 as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist studying magnetic particle swarms. He received his Ph.D. from the City College of New York, where his research focused on the self-assembly of magnetic Janus particles.