Hannah Yevick

Hannah Yevick is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Brandeis University's Martin A. Fisher School of Physics. She holds a PhD from Institut Curie and University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France, 2014). Her research focuses on the mechanics of cell and tissue development, integrating soft matter biophysics, developmental biology, and computational methods to understand how mechanical patterns drive robust tissue shape formation. The Yevick Lab uses fruit fly embryos and cell cultures to study collective dynamics in living systems.

Her work explores how cellular architecture, intercellular connectivity, and global tissue patterns influence developmental processes. Publications include studies on bioimage analysis via deep learning (Development, 2021), actomyosin networks in tissue folding (Developmental Cell, 2019), and epithelial migration dynamics (PNAS, 2015).

Her interdisciplinary approach bridges physics and biology, with implications for understanding morphogenetic defects in developmental disorders. The lab’s research emphasizes structural redundancy and computational techniques to model tissue behavior.

Labs/Teams: Yevick Lab (focusing on physics of development).