The Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics is a research institute located on the campus of the City College of New York (CCNY), the flagship school of the City University of New York. The Institute is comprised of five faculty from CCNY – Jeff Morris (director) and Charles Maldarelli (both from Chemical Engineering) and Joel Koplik, Mark Shattuck, and Hernan Makse (all from the Physics Department), and associated graduate and postdoctoral students. The faculty work co-operatively on interdisciplinary problems in soft mater physics, including fluid and granular mechanics, molecular dynamics simulations, interfacial science and network and data science theory.
Current research interests focus on friction in flows of dense suspensions of particles, the microrheology of complex fluids, self-propelled (active ) colloidal engines, the dynamics and self-assembly of colloids at fluid interfaces, microfluidics in lab on a chip devices, static and dynamic transitions of jammed states of non-spherical and deformable particles, jamming dynamics in sediment transport, neural networks of the brain and the spread of information over social networks.
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Director
Professor Jeff Morris
Department of Chemical Engineering
Steinman Hall 1M20
City College of New York
New York, New York 10031
212-650-6844
morris@ccny.cuny.edu
Contact us
Mary Wright
Assistant Director
Levich Institute
Steinman Hall 1M
City College of New York
New York, NY 10031
Phone Number
212 650 8157
Fax Number
212 650-6835
Email
mwright@ccny.cuny.edu