Perry Research Group

Current Members

Principal Investigator

Prof. Sarah Perry

Prof. Sarah Perry (she/her)

[email protected]

Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Adjunct Professor, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering

Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering Program

Co-founder and Technical Advisory Board Chair of Waterfall Scientific


Postdoctoral Researchers

Jussara Alves Penido

Dr. Abhik Manna (he/him)

[email protected]

Microfluidic platforms for mRNA manufacturing.

Jussara Alves Penido

Dr. Alaleh Vaghef-Koodehi (she/her)

[email protected]

Microfluidic platforms for mRNA purification.

Visiting Scholars

Jussara Alves Penido

Jussara Alves Penido (she/her)

[email protected]

Protein encapsulation in coacervate-core micelles in organic solvents.

Graduate Students

Anna Clara Drummond Vilas Boas

Anna Clara Drumond Vilas Boas (she/her)

[email protected]

Sequence control of polymer-surfactant complex materials.

Bakthavachalam Kannadasan

Bakthavachalam Kannadasan (he/him)

[email protected]

Microfluidic platforms for time-resolved protein crystallography.

Nikhil Mathew Koshy

Nikhil Mathew Koshy (he/him)

[email protected]

Immune effects of peptide-based complex coacervates.

Vaishnavi Mahankal

Vaishnavi Mahankal (she/her)

[email protected]

Microfluidic platforms for time-resolved protein crystallography.

Luana Marques Ferreira

Luana Marques Ferreira (she/her)

[email protected]

Sequence control of polymer-lipid complex materials for separation membranes.

Diwakaran Rathinam Palaniswamy

Diwakaran Rathinam Palaniswamy (he/him)

[email protected]

Microfluidic platforms for mRNA manufacturing.

Arvind Sathyavageeswaran

Arvind Sathyavageeswaran (he/him)

[email protected]

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

Faviola Villariny-Rosado

Faviola Villariny-Rosado (she/her)

[email protected]

Complex coacervate materials.

Xianci Zeng

Xianci Zeng (she/her)

[email protected]

Studying the effects of excipients and complex coacervation with a goal of encapsulating and stabilizing biologic materials.


Research Assistants

Hannah Bannish

Hannah Bannish (she/her)

[email protected]

Electrochemical and materials characterization of bio-derived polyelectrolyte complexes.

Allison Barrett

Allison Barrett (she/her)

[email protected]

Enzyme activity in complex coacervate environments.

Mohana Bhuvanagiri

Mohana Bhuvanagiri (she/her)

[email protected]

Microfluidics for mRNA manufacture.

Mazin Hussein

Mazin Hussein (he/him)

[email protected]

Microfluidics for simultaneous in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy and electrochemical analysis.

Rayyan Khan

Rayyan Khan (he/him)

[email protected]

Electrochemical characterization of polyelectrolyte complexes.

Elena Kim

Elena Kim (she/her)

[email protected]

Microfluidics for mRNA manufacture.

Jina Lee

Jina Lee (she/her)

[email protected]

Protein encapsulation in complex coacervates.

Manu Menezes

Manu Menezes (she/her)

[email protected]

Microfluidics for mRNA purification.

Kiersten O'Connell

Kiersten O'Connell (she/her)

[email protected]

Microfluidics for mRNA manufacture.

Adhithi Varadarajan

Adhithi Varadarajan (she/her)

[email protected]

Complex coacervates in organic solvents and enzyme activity in coacervate environments.