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John ‘Fish’ Stanik
John earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2006, and has worked as a mechanical engineer for over 15 years. He has used finite element analysis (FEA) in the mechanical engineering environment to study a broad range of nonlinear structural problems at the continuum-level, ranging from automotive and industrial products to biomedical devices. He continues his mechanical engineering work as a Research and Development Engineer at the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State.
John joined the Colina group in January of 2011 as a M.Sc. student. He is interested in computer simulation of materials, focusing on multiple-scale simulations of soft materials. He is currently using the mesoscale technique of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) to simulate protein adsorption and adhesion to bio-surfaces.
Presentations:
- Stanik, J.; Colina C. M. “Efficient Simulation of Protein Surface Adsorption using Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Specular Chain Reflection” IUPAC MACRO2012 World Polymer Congress, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, June 24-29, 2012.
