Ella King

About

Ella King is a Simons Junior Fellow at the NYU Center for Soft Matter Research and the Flatiron Center for Computational Biology in New York City. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University and B.S. from Stanford University. Her work spans theoretical soft matter physics, materials design, and biophysics.
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Research

Complete list of work can also be found at my Google Scholar page.

Scattered waves fuel emergent activity

Nonreciprocal wave-mediated interactions reveal a new form of active matter that emerges as a collective property the system.

Proofreading mechanism for colloidal self-assembly

State-change based proofreading mechanism in colloidal particles undergoing self-assembly

Tuning Colloidal Reactions

Control over complex colloidal reactions with inverse designed components. Controlled disassembly of virus-like shells and, inspired by drug deliver applications, induced release of small particles trapped inside.

Programmable patchy particles for materials design

Computational design of anisotropic particle shapes that stabilize complex open lattices and enable self-limited assembly using automatic differentiation.

Uncovering the mechanism for aggregation in repeat expanded RNA reveals a reentrant transition

Repeat expanded RNA, which is implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, aggregates in vitro. Origin of this aggregation is presented, and a reentrant phase transition is observed as a result.

Designing self-assembling kinetics with differentiable statistical physics models

Inverse design of kinetic properties of self-assembled structures, including transition rates between small clusters and bulk crystallization rates.

Impact of Rigidity on Molecular Self-Assembly

The rigidity of diamondoid molecules, and the resulting decrease in configurational entropy, drives their unique assembly properties.

Contact Me

Email: ellaking@nyu.edu
Department of Physics, 726 Broadway, 8th floor, NYU, NY 10003 or Flatiron Institute, 7th floor, 162 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010.

You may also find me as volunteer mentor for the BioBus Junior Scientist Internship and as an occasional editor for WOWSTEM.