2027 ISMC

Building Bridges, Storytelling and Societal Impact

University of San Diego - San Diego, CA, USA - August 8-13, 2027

Our Mission

We aim to bring together a vibrant and diverse group of scientists and engineers to engage in collaborative ideation and cross-pollination of perspectives to foster soft matter innovation and discovery across the globe. We aim to focus special attention on international collaboration opportunities and public engagement to accelerate discovery and impact of soft matter science. We also aim to engage groups underrepresented in the soft matter community including undergraduates, community college students, scientists of color, activists, and artists.

Meet the Team

  • Rae M Robertson-Anderson

    University of San Diego

    ISMC Chair

  • Ajay Gopinathan

    UC Merced

    ISMC Vice-Chair

  • Ryan McGorty

    University of San Diego

    ISMC Vice-Chair

  • Linda Hirst

    Linda Hirst

    UC Merced

    ISMC Vice-Chair

Local Organizing Committee

Herdeline Ardona (UC Irvine)

Elliot Botvinick (UC Irvine) 

Kinjal Dasbiswas (UC Merced)

Sujit Datta (California Institute of Technology)

Zvonimir Dogic (UC Santa Barbara)

Lihua Jin (UC Los Angeles)

Eva Kanso (Univ of Southern California)

Parag Katira (San Diego State Univ) 

Dustin Kleckner (UC Merced)

Bin Liu (UC Merced)

Cristina Marchetti (UC Santa Barbara)

Ali Mohraz (UC Irvine)

Joe Peterson (UC Los Angeles)

Omar Saleh (UC Santa Barbara)

Mattia Serra (UC San Diego)

Samanvaya Srivastava (UC Los Angeles)

Tzer Han Tan (UC San Diego)

Hongbo Zhao (UC San Diego)

International Program Committee

Timothy Atherton (Tufts Univ)

Jose Bico (ESPCI Paris)

Jasna Brujic (New York Univ)

Ramón Castañeda-Priego (Univ de Guanajuato)

Roberto Cerbino (Univ of Vienna)

Emanuela del Gado (Georgetown Univ)

Ryan Hayward (UC Boulder)

Mazi Jalaal (Univ of Amsterdam)

Gijsje Koenderink (Delft Univ of Technology)

Stefano Martiniani (New York University)

Sriram Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Science)

Andela Saric (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)

Srikanth Sastry (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)

Kate Stebe (Univ of Pennsylvania)

Penger Tong (Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology)

Dimitris Vlassopoulos (FORTH, Univ of Crete) 

Lei Xu (Chinese Univ of Hong Kong)