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