Physical Biology Laboratory
Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Pittsburgh
Current Lab Members
Hanna Salman, Associate Professor
Office: 219B Old Engineering Hall
Email: hsalman@pitt.edu
phone: (412) 624-9027
Education and Professional Training:
Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY Postdoctoral Fellow 2002 - 2007
Dept. of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Ph.D. 1997 - 2002
Dept. of Physics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel M.Sc. 1993 - 1996
Dept. of Physics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel B.A. 1990 - 1993
Joanna Jammal Touma, Postdoctoral fellow 2021 - present
Previous education and training:
Dept. of Biotechnology and Food Engineering,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Ph.D. 2015 – 2019
Dept. of Biotechnology and Food Engineering,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel M.Sc. 2012 – 2014
Pharmaceutical Engineering
AZRIELI - College of Engineering (ACE), Jerusalem, Israel B.Sc. 2008 – 2012
Amy E. Sanderson, Graduate Students 2021 - present
Previous Education:
Physics, Northern Arizona University B.Sc. 2015 – 2019
Psychological Sciences, Northern Arizona University B.Sc. 2015 – 2019
Previous Lab Members
Maryam Kohram, Graduate Student 2015 - 2021
Current Position: Associate Research Scholar/CPBF Fellow
Center for the Physics of Biological Function, Princeton University
Previous Education:
Physics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran B.Sc. 2007 – 2012
Physics, The University of Akron, Akron, OH M.Sc. 2012 – 2015
Harsh Vashistha, Graduate Student 2015 - 2021
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Previous Education:
Dept. of Physics, IISER Bhopal, India Int. BS-MS 2010 – 2015
Zhicheng Long, Postdoctoral Research Associate 2015 - 2017
Education and Professional Training:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota Post Doc. Associate
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Research Fellow
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China Ph.D.
Nankai University, Tianjin, China M.Sc.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China B.Sc.
Mahmut Demir, Graduate Student 2009 - 2013
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Anna Yoney, Research Assistant 2009 - 2013
Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Columbia University
Previously: Graduate Student, The Rockefeller University
