Siavash Khosh Sokhan Monfared
Postdoctoral Scholar, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Visiting associate, Department of Physics, Harvard University
Previously: California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Oklahoma
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L. Balasubramaniam (1st co-author),S. Monfared (1st co-author), et al., “Dynamic forces shape the survival fate of eliminated cells”, in-revision, Nature Physics, 2024.
A. Schoenit (1st co-author),S. Monfared (1st co-author), L. Anger (1st co-author), et al., “Force transmission is a master regulator of mechanical cell competition”, under review, Nature Materials, 2024.
S. Monfared, G. Ravichandran, J.E., Andrade, A. Doostmohammadi, “Short-range correlation of stress chains near solid-to-liquid transition in active monolayers”, Journal of Royal Society Interface, accepted, 2024.
S. Monfared, G. Ravichandran, J.E., Andrade, A. Doostmohammadi, “Mechanical basis and topological routes to cell elimination”, eLife, 12:e82435, 2023. [link]. Press coverage: Caltech News, Phys.org. Please contact me for relevant data. The code is available on my github page.
S. Monfared, G. Ravichandran, J.E., Andrade, A. Doostmohammadi, “Stress percolation criticality of glass to fluid transition in active cell layers”, arXiv:2210.08112, 2022. [link][pdf].
R. Burqua de Macedo, S. Monfared, K. Karapiperis, J.E., Andrade, “What is shape? Characterizing particle morphology for topology optimization of granular materials”, Granular Matter, 25(2), 2023. [link].
K. Karapiperis, S. Monfared, R. Burqua de Macedo, J.E., Andrade, “Stress transmission in entangled granular structures”, Granular Matter, 24(91), 1369-1394, 2022. [link].
J.E., Andrade, Z. Gu, S. Monfared, K.A. Mac Donald, G. Ravichandran, “Measuring Terzaghi’s effective stress by decoding force transmission in fluid-saturated granular media”, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 165, 104912, 2022. [link].
S. Monfared, G. Ravichandran, J.E., Andrade, A. Doostmohammadi, “Mechanics of live cell elimination”, arXiv:2108.07657, 2021. [link][pdf].
S. Monfared, T. Zhou, J.E., Andrade, K. Ioannidou, F. Radjai, F.-J. Ulm, R. J.-M. Pellenq, “Effect of confinement on capillary phase transition in granular aggregates”, Physical Review Letters, 125, 255501, 2020. [link][pdf]. Please contact me for relevant data. A 2D version of the code is available on my github page.
S. Monfared, H. Laubie, F. Radjai, M. Hubler, R. J.-M. Pellenq, F.-J. Ulm, “A methodology to calibrate and to validate effective solid potentials of heterogeneous porous media from computed tomography scans and laboratory-measured nanoindentation data”, Acta Geotechnica, 13, 1369, 2018. [link][pdf].
H. Laubie, S. Monfared, F. Radjai, R. J.-M. Pellenq, F.-J. Ulm, “Effective potentials and elastic properties in the Lattice-Element Method: Isotropy and Transverse Isotropy”, Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics, 7, 3, 2017. [link][pdf].
S. Monfared, H. Laubie, F. Radjai, R. J.-M. Pellenq, F.-J. Ulm, “Mesoscale poroelasticity of heterogeneous media”, Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics, 7,4, 2017. [link][pdf].
H. Laubie, S. Monfared, F. Radjai, R. J.-M. Pellenq, F.-J. Ulm, “Disorder-induced stiffness degradation of highly disordered porous materials”, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 106, 207, 2017. [link][pdf].
S. Monfared, F.-J. Ulm, “A molecular informed poroelastic model for organic-rich, naturally occurring porous geocomposites”, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 88, 186, 2016. [link].
Capillary stresses in disordered unsaturated porous materials, Monfared et al., APS March Meeting, March 4-8, 2019; Boston, Massachusetts.
Mesoscale poroelasticity of heterogeneous media, Monfared et al., APS March Meeting, March 14-18, 2016; Baltimore, Maryland.
Discrete Poroelasticity of Heterogeneous Media, Monfared et al., 6th Biot Conference on Poromechanics - A tribute to Olivier Coussy, July 9-13, 2017; Paris, France.