Parvin Bayati
Mailing Address
104 Benkovic Building
367 Science Dr.
University Park, PA 16802
Mallory Research Group
Honors and Awards
Research and Academic Exchange program Grant, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS),Harvard University, 2024
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Iranian National Science Foundation (INSF), 2017
Guest Researcher Fellowship, Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT), 2016
Iranian Nano-Science Foundation Award, 2010
Top graduate (top GPA) among all B.Sc. Students 2007, and Ph.D. students, 2017
Education
B.Sc., Physics, University of Zanjan; 2007
M.Sc., Physics of condensed matter, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), 2010
Ph.D., Physics, University of Zanjan, 2017
Sabbatical, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), 2017 - 2018
Postdoctoral Scholar, Université Paris-Saclay, 2019 - 2020
Postdoctoral Scholar, Penn State University, 2022 - 2023
Research Interests
In the Mallory Lab, my research lies at theoretical and computational soft matter physics, with a strong focus on nonequilibrium systems such as active matter and deformable interfaces. I am particularly interested in understanding how microscopic interactions and activity give rise to emergent macroscopic behavior in complex fluids, colloidal suspensions, and biological-inspired systems. My work combines particle-based simulations (e.g., Brownian dynamics, active particle models), continuum theory (e.g., hydrodynamics), and modern machine learning techniques, especially physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), to develop predictive models for soft and active systems.
Selected Publications:
Akintunde A., Bayati P., Row H., Mallory S. A., “Single-File Diffusion of Active Brownian Particles”, J. Chem. Phys., 162, 164902 (2025). (highlighted on the journal’s cover)
Balaj R., Xue W., Bayati P., Mallory S. A., Zarzar L., “Dynamic partitioning of surfactants into non-equilibrium emulsion droplets”, JACS 146, 26340-26350 (2024).
Bayati P., Mallory S. A., “Orbits, spirals, and trapped states: Dynamics of a phoretic Janus particle in a radial concentration gradient”, ACS Nano 18, 23047-23057 (2024).
Bayati P., Nourhani A., “Memory effects in spiral diffusion of rotary self-propellers”, PRE 105, 024606 (2022).
Bayati P., Trizac E., “Diffusiophoresis assisted colloidal manipulation and shortcuts to adiabaticity”, New J. Phys., 23, 063028 (2021).
Bayati P., Najafi A. “Electrophoresis of active Janus particles”, J. Chem. Phys. 150, 234902 (2019).
Bayati P., Popescu N. M., Uspal W. E., Dietrich S., Najafi A., “Dynamics near planar walls for various model self-phoretic particles”, Soft Matter 15, 5644-5672 (2019).
Bayati P., Najafi A., “Dynamics of two interacting active Janus particles”, J. Chem. Phys. 144, 134901 (2016).