Joseph Paulsen
Joseph Paulsen
Associate Professor and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
CONTACT
Physics
223 Physics Building
Email: jdpaulse@syr.edu
Office: 315.443.3752
Degrees
- 2013 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Chicago
- 2007 B.A. in Physics and Mathematics, with distinction St. Olaf College
Social/Academic Links
- Surface-tension driven flows
- Memories in disordered materials
- Elasticity and geometry of thin sheets
Research Spotlight
Custom-machined force probe, built by graduate student Monica Ripp, for indenting ultrathin polymer films floating on water. Thin sheets are ubiquitous in nature and industry across a vast range of scales, from graphene to metal foil to the earth’s crust. Our goal is to uncover the fundamental principles that govern the deformation of these materials when they are pushed far away from the low-energy or spatially-uniform states that they prefer.
(April 10, 2020)
Articles featured in Physical Review X and Physical Review Letters.
(Oct. 14, 2016)
The funds will support the expansion of soft matter physics research at Syracuse University.
(Sept. 28, 2015)
Joseph Paulsen publishes on optimal wrapping of miniature liquid droplets in ‘Nature Materials’
(Aug. 25, 2015)
Professors Bowick, Manning, Marchetti, and Paulsen among presenters
The behavior of thin curved sheets is ironed out
Focus: Wrinkles Turn to Crumples
Researchers have worked out the rules for how some things wrinkle
Physicist Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Grant
Joseph Paulsen Lab Awarded Grant from American Chemical Society
Ultrathin elastic sheets wrap around liquid drops
Veiled Water Drops: How extremely thin plastic films enclose small droplets
Press Release: Researchers Use Ultrathin Sheets to Discover New Class of Wrapped Shapes
Physics of Wrapping Miniature Droplets Takes Cue from Street Floods
- 2023 Physics Department Teaching Award, Phys 225, Syracuse University
- 2022 Physics Department Teaching Award, Phys 212, Syracuse University
- 2017 NSF CAREER Award
- 2017 Physics Department Teaching Award, Phys 212, Syracuse University
- 2016 ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award
- 2011 Grainger Foundation Fellowship, University of Chicago
- 2006 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Cross-sections of doubly curved sheets as confined elastica. M He, V Démery, & JD Paulsen, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 120, e2216786120 (2023).
Exact solutions for the wrinkle patterns of confined elastic shells. I Tobasco, Y Timounay, D Todorova, GC Leggat, JD Paulsen, & E Katifori, Nature Physics (2022).
Multiperiodic orbits from interacting soft spots in cyclically sheared amorphous solids. NC Keim & JD Paulsen, Science Advances 7, eabg7685 (2021).
Crumples as a generic stress-focusing instability in confined sheets. Y Timounay, R De, JL Stelzel, ZS Schrecengost, MM Ripp, & JD Paulsen, Physical Review X 10, 021008 (2020).
Wrapping liquids, solids, and gases in thin sheets. JD Paulsen, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics vol. 10, 431 (2019).