#  Nicholas L. Cuccia 

5th Year in Harvard Applied Physics, Physics Fellow at the University of California - Santa Barbara

 

 

 



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 email <cuccia@g.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Nicholas is our resident experimentalist. He experimentally studies many soft systems: buckling of thin shells, hydrogel friction, and helical colloids. Nicholas is co-advised by [Shmuel M. Rubinstein](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/smrlab/group) and [Zvonimir Dogic](http://dogiclab.physics.ucsb.edu/people/).



 

 

 





 

 

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