Perry Research Group

Current Members

Principal Investigator

Prof. Sarah Perry

Prof. Sarah Perry (she/her)

perrys@engin.umass.edu

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Adjunct Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering


Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Priyanka

Dr. Priyanka (she/her)

fpriyanka@umass.edu

Complex coacervation strategies to saften fungicides.

Dr. Pankaj Pandey

Dr. Pankaj Pandey (he/him)

pankajkumar@umass.edu

Encapsulation of antimicrobials.


Visiting Scholars

Jussara Alves Penido

Jussara Alves Penido (she/her)

jalvespenido@umass.edu

Protein encapsulation in coacervate-core micelles in organic solvents.

Júlia Bonesso Sabadini

Júlia Bonesso Sabadini (she/her)

jbonessosaba@umass.edu

Protein encapsulation in coacervate-core micelles.

Graduate Students

Isaac Ramírez Marrero

Isaac Ramírez Marrero (he/him)

iramirez@umass.edu

Investigating the effect of polymer chemistry on the physical properties of solid polyelectrolyte complex films.

Diwakaran Rathinam Palaniswamy

Diwakaran Rathinam Palaniswamy (he/him)

drathinampal@umass.edu

Microfluidic platforms for mRNA manufacturing and time-resolved protein crystallography.

Sarthak Saha

Sarthak Saha (he/him)

ssaha@umass.edu

Microfluidic platforms for high-throughput protein crystallization and drug discovery.

Arvind Sathyavageeswaran

Arvind Sathyavageeswaran (he/him)

asathyavagee@umass.edu

Studying sequence effects in complex coacervation with a goal of encapsulating and stabilizing biologic materials.

Zoey Meng

Xianci Zeng (she/her)

xiancizeng@umass.edu

Studying sequence effects in complex coacervation with a goal of encapsulating and stabilizing biologic materials.

Research Assistants

Yaozu Chen

Yaozu Chen (he/him)

yaozuchen@umass.edu

Designing X-ray compatible microfluidics.

Umme Habeeba

Umme Habeeba (she/her)

uhabeeba@umass.edu

Encapsulating proteins in peptide-based complex coacervates as a function of different peptide chemistries.

Nickolas Holmlund

Nickolas Holmlund (he/him)

nholmlund@umass.edu

Microrheology of polyelectrolyte complexes.

Arjun Iyer

Arjun Iyer (he/him)

agiyer@umass.edu

Encapsulating proteins in complex coacervates.

Amy Lim

Amy Lim (she/her)

alim@umass.edu

Studying multiphase complex coacervates.

Rachel Maher

Rachel Maher (she/her)

rmmaher@umass.edu

Studying solvent effects in complex coacervation.

Taras Nagornyy

Taras Nagornyy (he/him)

tnagornyy@umass.edu

Encapsulating proteins in complex coacervates.

Emily Ng

Emily Ng (she/her)

emilyng@umass.edu

Polyelectrolyte complexes as materials.

Timothy Wheeler

Timothy Wheeler (he/him)

tdwheeler@umass.edu

Temperature effects on the phase behavior of complex coacervates.

Henry Xu

Henry Xu (he/him)

hdxu@umass.edu

Phase behavior of complex coacervates.