Aidan Brown's Research Page

   Curriculum Vitae

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   2020 – Present Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Ryerson University

   2018 – 2020 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego
Working with Elena Koslover to investigate the effect of spatial confinement within complex organelle morphologies on intracellular reaction kinetics.

   2015 – 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University
Worked with David Sivak to probe the limits and optimization of energy use by molecular machines.

   2012 – 2015 PhD student in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University
Worked with Andrew Rutenberg to explore protein accumulation and clustering involved in intracellular signaling.

   2010 – 2012 MSc student in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University
Worked with Andrew Rutenberg to metabolically explain differentiation patterns in filamentous bacteria.

   2006 – 2010 BSc student in the Department of Physics at the University of Guelph
Thesis with Elisabeth Nicol to explore the optimal conductivity of graphene.
Summer research with Rob Wickham and John Dutcher investigating the mechanical response of bacterial cell walls.
Summer research with Stefan Kycia examining gold nanoparticle structure.