Education

• 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)