Varda Hagh
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Education
- Ph.D, Physics, Arizona State University, 2018
- B.SC, Physics, University of Tehran, 2011
Academic Positions
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024 - present
- Postdoctoral Researcher, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, 2018-2023
Research Interests
- Control in Mechanical Metamaterials
- Training Soft and Biological Matter
- Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Structures
- Memory Formation in Matter
Selected Articles in Journals
- Chloe W. Lindeman, Varda F. Hagh, Chi Ian Ip, and Sidney R. Nagel, Competition between Energy and Dynamics in Memory Formation, Physical Review Letters (2023).
- Varda F. Hagh, Sidney R. Nagel, Andrea J. Liu, M. Lisa Manning, and Eric I. Corwin, Transient learning degrees of freedom for introducing function in materials, PNAS (2022).
- Varda F. Hagh and Mahdi Sadjadi, Deterministic Interrelation Between Elastic Moduli in Critically Elastic Materials, arXiv preprint (2022).
- Cameron R. Dennis, Varda F. Hagh, and Eric I. Corwin, Emergence of zero modes in disordered solids under periodic tiling, Phys. Rev. E (2022).
- Varda F. Hagh and Mahdi Sadjadi, rigidPy: Rigidity Analysis in Python, Computer Physics Communications (2022).
- Francesco Arceri, Eric I. Corwin, and Varda F. Hagh, Marginal stability in memory training of jammed solids, Physical Review E (2021).
- Ojan Khatib Damavandi, Varda F. Hagh, Christian D. Santangelo, and M. Lisa Manning, Energetic rigidity. I. A unifying theory of mechanical stability, Physical Review E (2022).
- Ojan Khatib Damavandi, Varda F. Hagh, Christian D. Santangelo, and M. Lisa Manning, Energetic rigidity. II. Applications in examples of biological and underconstrained materials, Physical Review E (2022).
- Mahdi Sadjadi, Varda F. Hagh, Mingyu Kang, Meera Sitharam, Robert Connelly, Steven J. Gortler, Louis Theran, Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, and Michael F. Thorpe, Realizations of Isostatic Material Frameworks, physica status solidi (2021).
- Varda F. Hagh, Eric I. Corwin, Kenneth Stephenson, and Michael Thorpe, A Broader View on Jamming: From Spring Networks to Circle Packings, Soft Matter (2019).
- Varda F. Hagh and M. F. Thorpe, Disordered auxetic networks with no re-entrant polygons, Rapid Communication, Physical Review B (2018).
- Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Varda F. Hagh, Avishek Kumar, M. F. Thorpe, and Martin van Hecke, Rigidity Loss in Disordered Systems: Three Scenarios, Physical Review Letters (2015).
Professional Societies
- American Physical Society
Service on Department Committees
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee Member
Recent Courses Taught
- TAM 251 - Introductory Solid Mechanics
- TAM 451 - Intermediate Solid Mechanics