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 matter 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.
The Morris Lab
specializes in the several facets of complex fluid flows. Current research includes frictional rheology (including shear thickening), microrheology, inertial migration, contact line studies, oscillatory and polydisperse rheology using theoretical, simulation and experimental techniques.
The Koplik Lab
focuses its research interest on Nanoscale fluid mechanics, Colloidal and swimming particles, Porous media flows Superfluids, and Statistical mechanics
The Makse Lab
is interested in the theoretical understanding of Complex Systems from a Statistical Physics viewpoint. We are working towards the development of new emergent laws for complex systems, ranging from brain networks and biological networks to social systems.
The Maldarelli Lab
centers principally on interfacial and colloidal phenomena at the micro and nanoscale. Current research projects include Active Matter, Microfluidics, Colloidal Hydrodynamics, Green Chemistry, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Peptide Self-Assembly and Catalysis.
The Shattuck Lab
studies flowing granular material using a combination of laboratory experiments, molecular dynamics, and numeric integration of continuum models. One of the goals of our research is to create simple systems which elucidate important physics.
News
- AAAS honors Jeffrey Morris as lifetime Fellow
- Michel Orsi, research associate with Professor Morris, awarded the Prix de These du GFR 2023.
- Hernan Makse elected correspondent member of Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, May 10, 2023
- Jeff Morris awarded the 2023 Bingham Award
- Jeff Morris awarded the 2022 Weissenberg Award from the European Society of Rheology (ESR)
- Jeff Morris named as Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Fluid Mechanics of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. Click here to view video of lecture presented on 04/05/2021
- Hernan Makse – Using AI and Digital Contact tracing to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic
- APS 2019 Stanley Corrsin Award to Jeffrey Morris
- Levich Institute Directors’ Lectures – Beginning on Tuesday, 04/16/2019
- Mark Shattuck and Yale researchers make shape shifting cell breakthrough
- Jeffrey Morris AIChE Award
- Fluids Research NSF Award
- 2015 SOR Awards
- Marino Xanthos Lecture
- Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress
- “Why Natural Networks Are More Stable Than Man-made Networks”
Director
Professor Jeff Morris
Department of Chemical Engineering
Steinman Hall 1M-18
City College of New York
New York, New York 10031
212-650-6844
morris@ccny.cuny.edu
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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