Vinothan Manoharan, PhD

 

 

ARROWS External Advisory Board Member

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Vinothan Manoharan, PhD
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Physics
Harvard University

Dr. Vinothan N. Manoharan is the Wagner Family Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Physics at Harvard University.  His research focuses on understanding how systems containing many particles suspended in a liquid — such as nanoparticles, proteins, or cells — organize themselves into ordered structures like crystals, viruses, and even living tissues.  The goal is to discover new, general physical principles that underlie complex systems and to apply these principles to practical problems in materials science, nanotechnology, and medicine. Manoharan received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2004 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania before arriving at Harvard in 2005. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in the Physics Department and as a member of Harvard’s Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging.