Sho Takatori
Stanford University
Seminar Information
Engineering Building Unit 2 (EBU2)
Room 479
Seminar Recording Available: Please contact seminar coordinator, Jake Blair at (j1blair@ucsd.edu)
Interactions among colloidal particulates are often treated as static material properties, yet in most soft and biological systems they are mediated by a dynamic surrounding bath that is viscoelastic, active, and far from equilibrium. In this seminar, I describe how we use quantitative microscopy, optical control, and theory to measure and model fluid-mediated interactions in complicated baths. Our goal is to develop constitutive equations that bridge microscopic dynamics and continuum transport.
Sho Takatori is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford, where his lab studies the transport dynamics of complex materials using a combination of theory, simulations, and experiments. Sho began his independent lab at UC Santa Barbara in 2020 and moved to Stanford in January 2025. Previously, he was a Miller Research Fellow at UC Berkeley and obtained a Ph.D. at Caltech. Sho has received the Packard fellowship, DARPA Young Faculty Award, and NSF CAREER. Outside of research, Sho is passionate about public speaking and dedicates significant time in science education and technical communication.