New CNSI Researchers & Staff

Paul Atzberger joined UCSB as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2006. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the Courant Institute at New York University in 2003 and was a VIGRE post-doctoral fellow at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

His research interests include mathematical analysis and computational methods for the study of the statistical mechanics of biological and engineered systems. Application areas include molecular motor proteins, soft matter physics, polymeric fluids, lipid bilayer membranes, fluctuating hydrodynamics, osmotic phenomena, and microfluidic devices.

Claudia Gottstein is the new Director of the Biological Nanostructures Laboratory at CNSI. She received her MD degree with summa cum laude from the Albertus Magnus University in Cologne, Germany. Subsequently, she lead the Laboratory for Experimental Oncology and Vascular Biology at the Albertus Magnus University Cologne in the Department of Internal Medicine, and applied antibody and protein engineering techniques for site directed initiation of coagulation and fibrinolysis.

In November 2005, she came to UCSB and worked as a Senior Scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering in Professor Daugherty's Laboratory for three years where she developed a method to quantify nanoparticle internalization into mammalian cells. Dr. Gottstein is a co-author on several patents in the field of targeted drug delivery.