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

Jussara Alves Penido

Dr. Abhik Manna (he/him)

amanna@umass.edu

Microfluidic platforms for mRNA manufacturing.

Visiting Scholars

Jussara Alves Penido

Jussara Alves Penido (she/her)

jalvespenido@umass.edu

Protein encapsulation in coacervate-core micelles in organic solvents.

Graduate Students

Bakthavachalam Kannadasan

Bakthavachalam Kannadasan (he/him)

bkannadasan@umass.edu

Microfluidic platforms for time-resolved protein crystallography.

Khiem Le

Khiem Le (he/him)

khiemle@umass.edu

Microfluidic platforms for mRNA manufacturing.

Vaishnavi Mahankal

Vaishnavi Mahankal (she/her)

vmahankal@umass.edu

Microfluidic platforms for time-resolved protein crystallography.

Diwakaran Rathinam Palaniswamy

Diwakaran Rathinam Palaniswamy (he/him)

drathinampal@umass.edu

Microfluidic platforms for mRNA manufacturing.

Arvind Sathyavageeswaran

Arvind Sathyavageeswaran (he/him)

asathyavagee@umass.edu

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

Faviola Villariny-Rosado

Faviola Villariny-Rosado (she/her)

fvillariny@umass.edu

Complex coacervate materials.

Xianci Zeng

Xianci Zeng (she/her)

xiancizeng@umass.edu

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)

hbannish@umass.edu

Electrochemical and materials characterization of bio-derived polyelectrolyte complexes.

Jacob Belden

Jacob Belden (he/him)

jtbelden@umass.edu

Protein encapsulation in complex coacervates.

Yaozu Chen

Yaozu Chen (he/him)

yaozuchen@umass.edu

Designing X-ray compatible microfluidics and rheological trends in complex coacervates.

Arjun Iyer

Arjun Iyer (he/him)

agiyer@umass.edu

Encapsulating proteins in complex coacervates.

Rayyan Khan

Rayyan Khan (he/him)

rmkhan@umass.edu

Electrochemical characterization of polyelectrolyte complexes.

Elena Kim

Elena Kim (she/her)

irekim@umass.edu

Microfluidics for mRNA manufacture.

Jina Lee

Jina Lee (she/her)

jlee27@smith.edu

Protein encapsulation in complex coacervates.

Raneem Mokdad

Raneem Mokdad (she/her)

rmokdad@umass.edu

Hydrogen bonding in complex coacervates.

Emily Ng

Emily Ng (she/her)

emilyng@umass.edu

Polyelectrolyte complexes as materials.

Ethan Rivers

Ethan Rivers (he/him)

erivers@umass.edu

Multiphase complex coacervation.

Adhithi Varadarajan

Adhithi Varadarajan (she/her)

avaradarajan@umass.edu

Complex coacervate-core micelles in organic solvents.