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

• C. W. Lindeman and V. F. Hagh, C. I. Ip, S. R. Nagel, “Competition between energy and dynamics in memory formation,” Physical review letters, vol. 130, no. 19, p. 197201, 2023.
• V. F. Hagh, S. R. Nagel, A. J. Liu, M. L. Manning, and E. I. Corwin, “Transient learning degrees of free- dom for introducing function in materials,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119, no. 19, p. e2117622119, 2022.
• R. C. Dennis, V. F. Hagh, and E. I. Corwin, “Emergence of zero modes in disordered solids under periodic tiling,” Physical Review E, vol. 106, no. 4, p. 044901, 2022.
• V. F. Hagh and M. Sadjadi, “rigidpy: Rigidity analysis in python,” Computer Physics Communications, vol. 275, p. 108306, 2022.
• O. K. Damavandi, V. F. Hagh, C. D. Santangelo, and M. L. Manning, “Energetic rigidity. i. a unifying theory of mechanical stability,” Physical Review E, vol. 105, no. 2, p. 025003, 2022.
• O. K. Damavandi, V. F. Hagh, C. D. Santangelo, and M. L. Manning, “Energetic rigidity. ii. applications in examples of biological and underconstrained materials,” Physical Review E, vol. 105, no. 2, p. 025004, 2022.
• F. Arceri, E. I. Corwin, and V. F. Hagh, “Marginal stability in memory training of jammed solids,” Physical Review E, vol. 104, no. 4, p. 044907, 2021.
• M. Sadjadi, V. F. Hagh, M. Kang, M. Sitharam, R. Connelly, S. J. Gortler, L. Theran, M. Holmes-Cerfon, and M. F. Thorpe, “Realizations of isostatic material frameworks,” physica status solidi (b), vol. 258, no. 9, p. 2000555, 2021.
• V. F. Hagh, E. I. Corwin, K. Stephenson, and M. Thorpe, “A broader view on jamming: from spring networks to circle packings,” Soft matter, vol. 15, no. 15, pp. 3076–3084, 2019.
• V. F. Hagh and M. F. Thorpe, “Disordered auxetic networks with no reentrant polygons,” Physical Review B, vol. 98, no. 10, p. 100101, 2018.
• W. G. Ellenbroek, V. F. Hagh, A. Kumar, M. Thorpe, and M. Van Hecke, “Rigidity loss in disordered systems: Three scenarios,” Physical review letters, vol. 114, no. 13, p. 135501, 2015.

Pending Articles

• Varda F. Hagh, and Sidney R. Nagel, "Permutation Symmetry Restoration in Disordered Materials" is under peer review in PNAS.

Professional Societies

• American Physical Society Membership, 2014- Present

Service on Department Committees

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee Member, Jan 2024- Present