Braun Lab
Computational Biology from Atoms to Ecosystems
Faculty
Rosemary Braun
principal investigator — Associate Professor, Molecular Biosciences.
Pancoe 3105, Evanston IL 60208. CV · rbraun@northwestern.edu
Postdocs
Now recruiting postdocs!
Graduate students
MM
Max Mattessich
PhD student, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
PG
Paul Ge
PhD student, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
PK
Phoebe Kuang
PhD student, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
Undergraduates
ND
Nick Dommert
Integrated Science Program (ISP)
Alumni
Eliza Duvall — PhD, IBiS, 2026 — now at Tempus
Yuheng (Cady) Fu — PhD, DGP, 2026 — co-advised by Rui Yi — now at Calico Life Sciences
Yitong (Pepper) Huang — postdoc — now faculty at Smith College
Marta Iwanaszko — postdoc — now Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
Seok-Won Jee — MS, Biotechnology, 2021
Chunni (Zoe) Ji — statistical analyst — now a biostatistician at Massachusetts General Hospital
Sneha Kachhara — postdoc — now a postdoc at the University of Exeter, UK. nonlinear systems
Elan Ness-Cohn — PhD, DGP, 2022 — now an Entrepreneurial Fellow with the Chicago Biomedical Consortium. nesscoder.com
Phan Nguyen — PhD, ESAM, 2018 — now a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Connor Puritz — PhD, ESAM, 2026 — now a postdoc at the Feinberg School of Medicine
Sahil Shah — PhD, ESAM, 2019 — now a data scientist at Civis Analytics
Nish Trivedi — MS, Biotechnology, 2021 — now an analyst at ZS
Mordechai Walder — MS, Quantitative Systems Biology, 2021
Gary Wilk — PhD, Chemical and Biological Engineering, 2018 — now a data scientist for the US government
Bingxian Xu — PhD, IBiS, 2025 — now a postdoc at Dana-Farber / Harvard
Ziyu Zhao — PhD, ESAM, 2024 — co-advised by William Kath