Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Ladd Lab
Led by Anthony Ladd · Chemical Engineering
What we study
The Ladd Lab studies fluid dynamics and transport at small scales (micrometers to millimeters) using computer models and experiments. They focus on reactive transport in porous media and DNA migration in combined flow and electric fields.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Wet lab
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 4
Current projects
Reactive transport in porous media
Simulating and measuring how rock-like samples dissolve to test transport models.
Migration of DNA in combined flow and electric fields
Moving DNA in microfluidic devices for biosensing and extraction.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Effects of oxide surface chemistry on diffusioosmosis
2026 · Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
Explains how mineral surfaces affect fluid movement in rocks, showing that surface chemistry plays a key role.
- Microfluidic purification of genomic DNA
2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Builds a lab device to extract DNA without magnets or gels, using electric fields to separate DNA from other materials.
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- Invariant Forms of Dissolution Fingers
2025 · Physical Review Letters
Shows how dissolution fingers in rocks form and stay the same shape over time, using lab experiments.
- Shapes of ideal stalagmites
2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Derives equations for stalagmite shapes and explains how different shapes form under specific cave conditions.
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How to reach out
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