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Professor Joseph D. Paulsen

Head, Joseph Paulsen Laboratory, Department of Physics
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Biography:
Paulsen joined the Syracuse physics department in 2015 after spending two years at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a postdoctoral research associate. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, and is a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Physical Society.

Awards:
February 2017: Five-year Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation.
October 2016: Joseph Paulsen Lab Awarded Grant from American Chemical Society

Selected Publications:
Paulsen JD, Demery V, Santangelo CD, Russell TP, Davidovitch B, Menon N 
(2015) Optimal wrapping of liquid droplets with ultrathin sheets. Nature Materials 14(12):1206-1209
Joseph D. Paulsen, Evan Hohifeld, Hunter King, Jiangshui Huang, Zhanlong Qiu, Thomas P. Russell, Narayanan Menon, Dominic Vella and Benny Davidovitch, “Curvature-induced stiffness and the spatial variation of wavelength in wrinkled sheets”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Vol. 113, No. 5, pp 1144-1149, February 2016
Dominic Vella, Hamid Ebrahimi, Joseph Paulsen, Ashkan Vaziri, Narayanan Menon, and Benny Davidovitch, “Poking around: how indentation reveals wrinkly isometries”, Abstract ID BAPS.2016.MAR.P40.2
Joseph D. Paulsen, Vincent Demery, K. Bugra Toga, Zhanlong Qiu, Benny Davidovitch, Thomas P Russell and Narayanan Menon, “Geometry-driven folding transitions in floating thin films”, Abstract ID BAPS.2016.MAR.P40.3
Joseph D. Paulsen, Vincent Démery, K. Buğra Toga, Zhanlong Qiu, Thomas P. Russell, Benny Davidovitch, and Narayanan Menon, “Geometry-driven folding of a floating annular sheet”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, No. 4, 048004 – Published 27 January 2017
Deepak Kumar, Joseph D Paulsen, Thomas P Russell, Narayanan Menon, “Wrapping with a splash: High-speed encapsulation with ultrathin sheets”, Science, Vol. 359, No. 6377, pp 775-778, February 16 2018
Chang J, Toga KB, Paulsen JD, Menon N, & Russell TP (2018) Thickness Dependence of the Young’s Modulus of Polymer Thin Films. Macromolecules.
Ripp MM, Démery V, Zhang T, & Paulsen JD (2018) Geometric stiffening and softening of an indented floating thin film. arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02421.
Joseph D. Paulsen, “Wrapping liquids, solids, and gases in thin sheets”, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, Vol. 10, pp 431-450, March 2019

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