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I am a postdoctoral researcher in computational physics, interested in problems of condensed matter and biological physics. My research uses elasticity, statistical physics, and computational approaches to study materials with complicated or disordered structure. This class of materials is wide-ranging and includes atomic glasses, biological tissues, crystalline grains in metal, and granular materials. The materials have intricate geometry at the small-scale which is coupled with long-range interactions to produce the material properties such as the elastic moduli and material strength. Non-linear and dynamic effects at small scales can produce intriguing and useful properties, which can have applications ranging from nanotechnology and biomechanics to the aerospace industry. The research tends to adopt new techniques from computational science to lead to new approaches and theories of complex materials.