Haina Wang

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Postdoctoral Researcher

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Research Areas: Biophysics, Chemical Physics, Statistical Mechanics

DRL 2N5

Education

Haina obtained her B.S. in chemistry and mathematics at National University of Singapore in 2018 and her PhD in theoretical chemistry at Princeton University in 2024. During her graduate studies, she worked in the group of Prof. Salvatore Torquato on extracting microscopic forces from the correlation functions of fluids and the inverse design of disordered hyperuniform systems, which are exotic states of matter that lie between typical liquids and crystals. Her experience with order metrics in chemical physics sparked her interest in disordered active systems in biology. As postdoc at Penn, she works with Profs. Andrea Liu and John Crocker on the "civil engineering" of living cells, i.e., modelling the actin cortex as a dynamic learning system. In her free time, Haina writes music reviews, plays the violin and attends Philadelphia Orchestra concerts.

Selected Publications

10. H. Wang and S. Torquato, Can one hear the shape of a crystal? Physical Review Research (Accepted, 2024) 9. H. Wang, R. Samajdar, and S. Torquato, Correlations in interacting electron liquids: Many-body statistics and hyperuniformity, Physical Review B, 110 104201 (2024). 8. H. Wang, D. A. Huse and S. Torquato, Hole statistics of equilibrium 2D and 3D hard-sphere crystals, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 161 074106 (2024). 7. H. Wang and S. Torquato, Designer pair statistics of disordered many-particle systems with novel properties , The Journal of Chemical Physics, 160 044911 (2024). 6. H. Wang and S. Torquato, Equilibrium states corresponding to hyperuniform nonequilibrium pair statistics, Soft Matter, 19 550-564 (2023). 5. H. Wang, F. H. Stillinger, and S. Torquato, Realizability of iso-g2 processes via effective pair interactions, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 157 224106 (2022). 4. S. Torquato, and H. Wang, Precise determination of pair interactions from pair statistics of many-body systems in and out of equilibrium, Physical Review E, 106 044122 (2022). 3. H. Wang, and S. Torquato, Dynamic Measure of Hyperuniformity and Nonhyperuniformity in Heterogeneous Media via the Diffusion Spreadability, Physical Review Applied, 17 034022 (2022). (Editor’s Suggestion) 2. H. Wang, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato, Sensitivity of Pair Statistics on Pair Potentials in Many-Body Systems, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 153 124106 (2020). 1. H. Wang, R. P. A. Bettens, Modelling potential energy surfaces for small clusters using Shepard interpolation with Gaussian-form nodal functions, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21, 4513-4522 (2019)