Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mai Lab @StanfordEng | previously @UCSBChE (Ph.D.) and @ncstatecbe (B.S.)

Palo Alto, CA
Joined July 2009
Very honored to have our work selected for the 2025 JOR Publication Award, and I’m grateful to have worked with this great team as a PhD student!!
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 Journal of Rheology Publication Award: Michael Burroughs, Yuanyi Zhang, Abhishek Shetty, Christopher Bates, Matthew Helgeson @professor_meh and L. Gary Leal. @JoRheology
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We’re just a few days away from the AIChE Annual Student Conference and AIChE Annual Meeting @ChEnected! Mike @flowslikemike, Brendan @bmwirtz00, and I will be around all week to share new research from the lab. Note the rooms are in different places. See you in San Diego! 🌴
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I had a wonderful time meeting with @spn_gt students and faculty through this virtual visit last year. Highly recommend postdocs in polymer-related areas to apply!
Georgia Tech's Student Polymer Network (SPN) is excited to announce its 4th Annual Postdoc Talk Competition in Polymer Research!  Full details are provided in the link here: forms.gle/5qhNgHX5jbQxZWcT9 The deadline to apply is October 1st 2024 @ChEnected @AmerChemSociety
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Our report on protease-responsive elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) is now published in Biomacromolecules @MacroJrnls_ACS! PhD student Brendan (@bmwirtz00) explored how proteases can drive phase separation of ELPs. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… Learn more from his tweetorial: 🧵 (1/n)
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I had a fantastic time participating in DYSS last summer. It was a great way to share research and meet the cool people at UW. Highly encourage senior graduate students and postdocs to apply!
Calling young scholars in #ChemE #BioE #MatSci and more! Ready to share your research while honing your interview skills? Apply by May 13 for the Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar #UWDYSS and come to Seattle this summer! Review criteria here: depts.washington.edu/dyss/re… #seminar
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Congratulations to 2024 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical Sciences, Pamela Cai, PhD! @uchicago ow.ly/yUJm50RmnMC #aobpostdoc #beckmanfoundation #awardees #fellows #grants #support #chemicalsciences #chemtwitter
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Congratulations to our 2024 #AOBpostdoc Fellows in Chem. Instrumentation and Chem. Sciences – 14 Research Fellows to Receive over $4.3M in Science Funding: ow.ly/4OLE50Rmmgo @broadinstitute @ucberkeley @MIT @princeton @uchicago @caltech @TAMU @harvard @columbia @penn
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The Society of Rheology's 2024 Bingham Award, our highest honor, goes to professor Michael Graham of the University of Wisconsin for his work in studying the flows of polymer solutions, viscoelastic instabilities, and other complex fluids. Congratulations!!
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Mike Burroughs retweeted
We're hiring a postdoctoral researcher to join @SM3ASU working in the @TELongLab and the Self Lab. Experience in polymers, synthesis, and/or photochemistry is desired. More information here: labs.engineering.asu.edu/sel… Please retweet and share! #chempostdoc
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2024 ACC CHAMPIONS🏆
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Mike Burroughs retweeted
Please share broadly: The Chavez lab is recruiting our first PhD students this cycle! Interested students should apply to the CBE graduate program at UCLA (grad.ucla.edu/admissions/adm…). The deadline is Dec 31, 2023. Please see the website for more details. chavezlab.ucla.edu
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Mike Burroughs retweeted
WOO HOOOOOO IT IS OUT (in ASAP form) in !!!!!!!!! #TwitterlessQi @bmwirtz00 @tracyhle @flowslikemike @ManchenHu #junrui @ArynnOGallegos #UGcoco @daniellejmai @dncongreve in @AdvSciNews onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Is this our last tweet? Better make it a good one: We can make defined UV light from lower energy input light using nano koosh balls. (Or, "Spatially Controlled UV Light Generation at Depth Using Upconversion Micelles") Check it out! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
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Honored and excited to share our work with @UWChemE as part of this summer’s #DYSS!!
Meet Mike Burroughs, our next Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar presenter! Dr. Burroughs is the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at @stanford and will be sharing a talk entitled, Illuminating Polymer Resins for Sustainable 3D Printing. Learn more: tinyurl.com/DYSS23-Burroughs
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It’s time! The #AOBPostdoc Fellowship LOI is now open. Applicants can choose from two tracks: Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation. Apply here: 🔗 ow.ly/NQce50OAgNe.
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Honored to be selected as a 2023 PMSE Future Faculty Awardee!! I look forward to meeting and learning from this group at ACS Fall in SF!
Congratulations to the 2023 PMSE Future Faculty Awardees. #polymer #science #Engineering #faculty #RisingStar @POLY_ACS @AmerChemSociety @AcademicChatter @AcademicLifeNBN
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Celebrating spring in SoCal with @cyberpatrice @TheHuntington!
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I'm really proud of Brendan Wirtz @bmwirtz00 and Winnie Huang (#notontwitter) for being awarded @NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!! Congratulations to both! 🥳
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So long, Vegas!! 🎰 So proud of my team and energized by new ideas after: 5 talks 🎤 4 posters 📊 2 single-molecule focus sessions w/ @AlexanderRKlotz 🧬 1 poster award - congrats @AlanaGudinas 🥉 1 magic show at the Mirage 🪄 1 memorable March meeting! @APSMeetings @APS_DPOLY – at Paradise, NV
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I’ll be presenting some of our work during the early career poster session from 2-5pm in the main exhibit hall! To find me, enter through room 117 and head to the very back. I’ll be at poster 178.
The Mai Lab is pumped for APS March Meeting!! Stop by our posters & talks to learn about what we're up to... we'll be around all week! @APSMeetings @APSphysics @APS_DPOLY @AlanaGudinas @flowslikemike @bmwirtz00 (Marina/Louis not on twitter)
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The Mai Lab is pumped for APS March Meeting!! Stop by our posters & talks to learn about what we're up to... we'll be around all week! @APSMeetings @APSphysics @APS_DPOLY @AlanaGudinas @flowslikemike @bmwirtz00 (Marina/Louis not on twitter)
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