Fred C. Mackintosh
ProfessorÂÂ
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rice University
United States of America
Biography
Fred received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Princeton University in 1989. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Exxon Corporate Research, he began his academic career in the University of Michigan’s Physics Department, first as an Assistant and then Associate Professor. In 2001, he joined the Physics faculty of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, as Professor of Theoretical Physics. His key achievements include: the development of commonly used models of elasticity and dynamics of biopolymer gels, combined experimental and theoretical advances in micro rheology and non-equilibrium, motor-activated gels and active diffusion in cells, as well as the identification of affine to non-affine transitions and critical behavior in fiber networks.
Research Interest
Fundamental material properties of biological and soft matter networks
Publications
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Storm C, Pastore J, Mackintosh FC (2004) Nonlinear elasticity in biological gels. arXiv preprint cond-mat.
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Gardel MI, Mahadevan L, Matsudaira P, Mackintosh FC (2004) Elastic behavior of cross-linked and bundled actin networks. Sci 304: 1301-1305.
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Mackintosh FC, Janmey PA, Elasticity of semiflexible biopolymer networks. Phy Rev Letters 75: 4425.
