Hui-shun Kuan
Research Assistant
Chemistry and Biochemistry
huishun.kuan@colorado.edu

Office: Duane F231

Research

I am interested in equilibrium and non-equilibrium soft condensed matter physics and biophysics. Currently, I study the collective motion of self-propelled rods in 2D and the motion of motor proteins on microtubules using computer simulations and theoretical approaches.

Education

  • PhD Chemical Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016
  • BS Chemistry, National Taiwan University, 2008

Recent Publications

Thumbnail image form Kuan 2019 BioRxiv posting
Length regulation of microtubule antiparallel overlaps by molecular motors
Ants image
Collective clog control: Optimizing traffic flow in confined biological and robophysical excavation
Phase diagram
Phase-plane analysis of the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with binding kinetics and switching between antiparallel lanes
Phase diagram
Hysteresis, reentrance, and glassy dynamics in systems of self-propelled rods
Model cartoon
Motor protein accumulation on antiparallel microtubule overlaps
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