Karen Daniels
Professor
- Phone: 919-513-7921
- Email: kdaniel@ncsu.edu
- Office: 258C Riddick
- Website: http://danielslab.physics.ncsu.edu
Publications
- Current CV
- ORCID
- Link to Full Text of All Publications from NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository
- Google Scholar
- Downloadable datasets from Dryad
- arXiv preprints
Professional History
- A.B. Physics Dartmouth College, 1994
- Science Teacher, St. Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY, 1994-1997
- Ph.D. Physics Cornell University, 2002
- Postdoc Duke University, 2002-2005
- Asst-Assoc-Full Professor of Physics, NCSU, 2005-present
Other Appointments
- Visiting Scientist, Department of Complex Fluids, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, 2011-2012
- Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters, 2017-present
Awards
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2007
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 2011
- LeRoy and Elva Martin Award for Teaching Excellence, 2013
- North Carolina State University Faculty Scholar, 2013
- Equity for Women Award, North Carolina State University, 2015
- Outstanding Referee, Physical Review Letters, 2017
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2018
Karen Daniels is a Professor of Physics at NC State University. She received her BA in Physics from Dartmouth College in 1994, taught school for a few years, and then pursued a PhD in Physics at Cornell University. After receiving her doctorate in 2002, she moved to North Carolina to do research at Duke University and then joined the faculty at NC State in 2005. Her lab at NC State investigates a number of problems in the deformation and failure of materials, from fluid flows, to piles of sand, to fracturing gels. When not working with her students on experiments in the lab, she likes to spend time in the outdoors, which has led her to contemplate the implications of her research for geological and ecological systems. In 2011-2012, she received an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship which allowed her to spend the year conducting research in Göttingen, Germany.
- Physics Department Complex Matter and Biophysics Seminar
- Triangle Soft Matter Workshop
- APS Soft Matter :: Fluid Dynamics :: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Soft Matter mailing list (lots of job postings for PhD/postdoc positions)
- NSCU ADVANCE Project
- APS Communication and Negotiation Skills Seminar for Women
- SoftWomen mailing list for faculty in soft condensed matter physics
- py-women mailing list for women in physics at NC State
- National Society of Black Physicists, NCSU Chapter (faculty advisor)
- Women in Physics at NC State student organization (faculty advisor)
- GLBT Advocate Program (member)
Publications
- A Dual-Species Biofilm with Emergent Mechanical and Protective Properties
- Yannarell, S. M., Grandchamp, G. M., Chen, S.-Y., Daniels, K. E., & Shank, E. A. (2019), Journal of Bacteriology, 201(18). https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00670-18
- Betweenness centrality as predictor for forces in granular packings
- Kollmer, J. E., & Daniels, K. E. (2019), Soft Matter. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SM01372A
- Distinguishing deformation mechanisms in elastocapillary experiments
- Chen, S.-Y., Bardall, A., Shearer, M., & Daniels, K. E. (2019), Soft Matter. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SM01756A
- Dynamics of a grain-scale intruder in a two-dimensional granular medium with and without basal friction
- Kozlowski, R., Carlevaro, C. M., Daniels, K. E., Kondic, L., Pugnaloni, L. A., Socolar, J. E. S., … Behringer, R. P. (2019), PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 100(3). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.032905
- Enlightening force chains: a review of photoelasticimetry in granular matter
- Zadeh, A. A., Bares, J., Brzinski, T. A., Daniels, K. E., Dijksman, J., Docquier, N., … Zheng, H. (2019, November), GRANULAR MATTER. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-019-0942-2
- Force fluctuations at the transition from quasi-static to inertial granular flow
- Thomas, A. L., Tang, Z., Daniels, K. E., & Vriend, N. M. (2019), Soft Matter. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SM01111K
- Forecasting failure locations in 2-dimensional disordered lattices
- Berthier, E., Porter, M. A., & Daniels, K. E. (2019), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(34), 16742–16749. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900272116
- Protocol Dependence and State Variables in the Force-Moment Ensemble
- Bililign, E. S., Kollmer, J. E., & Daniels, K. E. (2019), Physical Review Letters, 122(3). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.038001
- Rigidity percolation control of the brittle-ductile transition in disordered networks
- Berthier, E., Kollmer, J. E., Henkes, S. E., Liu, K., Schwarz, J. M., & Daniels, K. E. (2019), PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, 3(7). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.075602
- Viewing Earth’s surface as a soft-matter landscape
- Jerolmack, D. J., & Daniels, K. E. (2019), Nature Reviews Physics, 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-019-0111-x
