Ph.D. in Physics and Materials Research, Illinois Institute of technology, Chicago, USA, 2009
M.Sc. Degree in Solid State Physics, Nizhniy Novgorod State University, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, 2005
Professional Experience
2017-present Staff Physicist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
2015-2017 Assistant Scientist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
2013-2015 Enrico Fermi Fellow, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
2011-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
2009-2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Research Interests
Non-equilibrium phenomena in artifical and biological systems
Self-organization and self-assembly in active systems
3D multi-photon lithography
Selected Recent Publications
“Emergence of Radial Tree of Bends Stripes in Active Nematic”
Andrey Sokolov, Ali Mozaffari, Rui Zhang, Juan J de Pablo, Alexey Snezhko, Phys. Rev. X 9 (3), 031014, (2019)
“Engineering bacterial vortex lattice via direct laser lithography”
Daiki Nishiguchi, Igor S Aranson, Alexey Snezhko, Andrey Sokolov Nature communications 9 (1), 1-8, (2018)
“Spontaneous topological charging of tactoids in a living nematic”
Mikhail M Genkin, Andrey Sokolov, Igor S Aranson New Journal of Physics 20 (4), 043027, (2018)
“Instability of expanding bacterial droplets”
Andrey Sokolov, Leonardo Dominguez Rubio, John F Brady, Igor S Aranson Nature communications 9 (1), 1-8 (2018)
“Tuning antimicrobial properties of biomimetic nanopatterned surfaces”
Martyna Michalska, Francesca Gambacorta, Ralu Divan, Igor S Aranson, Andrey Sokolov, Philippe Noirot, Philip D Laible,
Nanoscale 10 (14), 6639-6650 (2018)
“Dynamic states of swimming bacteria in a nematic liquid crystal cell with homeotropic alignment”
Shuang Zhou, Oleh Tovkach, Dmitry Golovaty, Andrey Sokolov, Igor S Aranson and Oleg D Lavrentovich, New Journal of Physics, 19 055006 (2017)
“Topological Defects in a Living Nematic Ensnare Swimming Bacteria”
Mikhail M Genkin, Andrey Sokolov, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Igor S Aranson, Phys. Rev. X 7, 011029 (2017)
