Dan received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT in 2015, followed by a postdoctoral appointment at UNC Chapel Hill. He became an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Brown University in the Fall of 2017, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Engineering as of July 2024.
| Das A, Styslinger M, Harris DM, Zenit R. "Force and torque-free helical tail robot to study low Reynolds number micro-organism swimming." Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 93, no. 4, 2022, pp. 044103. |
| Agüero, Elvis A., Alventosa, Luke, Harris, Daniel M., Galeano-Rios, Carlos A. "Impact of a rigid sphere onto an elastic membrane." Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 478, no. 2266, 2022. |
| Ho, Ian, Kumar, Ajay Harishankar, Harris, Daniel M. "Reconfigurable Mechanical Vibrations Laboratory Kit." Journal of Open Hardware, vol. 6, no. 1, 2022. |
| Rhee E, Hunt R, Thomson SJ, Harris DM. "SurferBot: a wave-propelled aquatic vibrobot." Bioinspiration & biomimetics, vol. 17, no. 5, 2022. |
| Galeano-Rios, Carlos A., Cimpeanu, Radu, Bauman, Isabelle A., MacEwen, Annika, Milewski, Paul A., Harris, Daniel M. "Capillary-scale solid rebounds: experiments, modelling and simulations." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 912, 2021. |
| D. M. Harris, K. Schlueter-Kuck, E. Austin, and K. Cohen. "Course-based undergraduate research in upper-level engineering electives: A case study." Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, vol. 22, no. 3, 2021, pp. 46-55. |
| Lee, Garam, Luner, Alan, Marzuola, Jeremy, Harris, Daniel M. "Dispersion control in pressure-driven flow through bowed rectangular microchannels." Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, vol. 25, no. 4, 2021. |
| Howard RL, Bernardi F, Leff M, Abele E, Allbritton NL, Harris DM. "Passive Control of Silane Diffusion for Gradient Application of Surface Properties." Micromachines, vol. 12, no. 11, 2021. |
| Kumar, Ajay Harishankar, Thomson, Stuart J., Powers, Thomas R., Harris, Daniel M. "Taylor dispersion of elongated rods." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 6, no. 9, 2021. |
| Camassa, Roberto, Harris, Daniel M., Hunt, Robert, Kilic, Zeliha, McLaughlin, Richard M. "A first-principle mechanism for particulate aggregation and self-assembly in stratified fluids." Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, 2019. |
| Ho, Ian, Pucci, Giuseppe, Harris, Daniel M. "Direct Measurement of Capillary Attraction between Floating Disks." Physical Review Letters, vol. 123, no. 25, 2019. |
| Pucci G, Ho I, Harris DM. "Friction on water sliders." Scientific reports, vol. 9, no. 1, 2019, pp. 4095. |
| Taylor, Abigail W., Harris, Daniel M. "Optimized commercial desktop cutter technique for rapid-prototyping of microfluidic devices and application to Taylor dispersion." Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 90, no. 11, 2019, pp. 116102. |
| Kim, Jeong-Hyun, Puranik, Rohit, Shang, Jessica K., Harris, Daniel M. "Robust transferrable superhydrophobic surfaces." Surface Engineering, vol. 36, no. 6, 2019, pp. 614-620. |
| Halev, Avishai, Harris, Daniel M. "Bouncing ball on a vibrating periodic surface." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 28, no. 9, 2018, pp. 096103. |
| DiSalvo, Matthew, Harris, Daniel M., Kantesaria, Saurin, Peña, Alexis N., Allbritton-King, Jules D., Cole, Jacqueline H., Allbritton, Nancy L. "Characterization of Tensioned PDMS Membranes for Imaging Cytometry on Microraft Arrays." Analytical Chemistry, vol. 90, no. 7, 2018, pp. 4792-4800. |
| Ionkin, Nikolay, Harris, Daniel M. "Note: A versatile 3D-printed droplet-on-demand generator." Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 89, no. 11, 2018, pp. 116103. |
| Aminian, Manuchehr, Bernardi, Francesca, Camassa, Roberto, Harris, Daniel M., McLaughlin, Richard M. "The Diffusion of Passive Tracers in Laminar Shear Flow." Journal of Visualized Experiments, no. 135, 2018. |
| Harris, Daniel M., Brun, P.-T., Damiano, Adam, Faria, Luiz M., Bush, John W. M. "The interaction of a walking droplet and a submerged pillar: From scattering to the logarithmic spiral." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 28, no. 9, 2018, pp. 096105. |
| Oza, Anand U., Siéfert, Emmanuel, Harris, Daniel M., Moláček, Jan, Bush, John W. M. "Orbiting pairs of walking droplets: Dynamics and stability." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 2, no. 5, 2017. |
| Pucci, Giuseppe, Harris, Daniel M., Faria, Luiz M., Bush, John W. M. "Walking droplets interacting with single and double slits." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 835, 2017, pp. 1136-1156. |
| McBennett, Brendan G., Harris, Daniel M. "Horizontal stability of a bouncing ball." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 26, no. 9, 2016, pp. 093105. |
| Aminian, M., Bernardi, F., Camassa, R., Harris, D. M., McLaughlin, R. M. "How boundaries shape chemical delivery in microfluidics." Science, vol. 354, no. 6317, 2016, pp. 1252-1256. |
| Harris, Daniel M., Pucci, Giuseppe, Prost, Victor, Casal, Julio Quintela, Bush, John W. M. "Merger of a bubble and a soap film." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 1, no. 5, 2016. |
| Brun, P.-T., Harris, Daniel M., Prost, Victor, Quintela, Julio, Bush, John W. M. "Shedding light on pilot-wave phenomena." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 1, no. 5, 2016. |
| Damiano, Adam P., Brun, P.-T., Harris, Daniel M., Galeano-Rios, Carlos A., Bush, John W. M. "Surface topography measurements of the bouncing droplet experiment." Experiments in Fluids, vol. 57, no. 10, 2016. |
| Tambasco, Lucas D., Harris, Daniel M., Oza, Anand U., Rosales, Rodolfo R., Bush, John W. M. "The onset of chaos in orbital pilot-wave dynamics." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 26, no. 10, 2016, pp. 103107. |
| Camassa, Roberto, Harris, Daniel M., Holz, David, McLaughlin, Richard M., Mertens, Keith, Passaggia, Pierre-Yves, Viotti, Claudio. "Variable density vortex ring dynamics in sharply stratified ambient fluids." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 1, no. 5, 2016. |
| Harris, Daniel M., Quintela, Julio, Prost, Victor, Brun, P.-T., Bush, John W. M. "Visualization of hydrodynamic pilot-wave phenomena." Journal of Visualization, vol. 20, no. 1, 2016, pp. 13-15. |
| Harris, Daniel M., Liu, Tanya, Bush, John W. M. "A low-cost, precise piezoelectric droplet-on-demand generator." Experiments in Fluids, vol. 56, no. 4, 2015. |
| Harris, Daniel M., Bush, John W.M. "Generating uniaxial vibration with an electrodynamic shaker and external air bearing." Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 334, 2015, pp. 255-269. |
| Pucci, G., Harris, D. M., Bush, J. W. M. "Partial coalescence of soap bubbles." Physics of Fluids, vol. 27, no. 6, 2015, pp. 061704. |
| Williamson, C H K, Leweke, T, Asselin, D J, Harris, D M. "Phenomena, dynamics and instabilities of vortex pairs." Fluid Dynamics Research, vol. 46, no. 6, 2014, pp. 061425. |
| Oza, Anand U., Harris, Daniel M., Rosales, Rodolfo R., Bush, John W. M. "Pilot-wave dynamics in a rotating frame: on the emergence of orbital quantization." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 744, 2014, pp. 404-429. |
| Oza, Anand U., Wind-Willassen, Øistein, Harris, Daniel M., Rosales, Rodolfo R., Bush, John W. M. "Pilot-wave hydrodynamics in a rotating frame: Exotic orbits." Physics of Fluids, vol. 26, no. 8, 2014, pp. 082101. |
| Harris, Daniel M., Bush, John W. M. "Droplets walking in a rotating frame: from quantized orbits to multimodal statistics." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 739, 2013, pp. 444-464. |
| Wind-Willassen, Øistein, Moláček, Jan, Harris, Daniel M., Bush, John W. M. "Exotic states of bouncing and walking droplets." Physics of Fluids, vol. 25, no. 8, 2013, pp. 082002. |
| Harris, Daniel M., Bush, John W. M. "The pilot-wave dynamics of walking droplets." Physics of Fluids, vol. 25, no. 9, 2013, pp. 091112. |
| Harris, Daniel M., Moukhtar, Julien, Fort, Emmanuel, Couder, Yves, Bush, John W. M. "Wavelike statistics from pilot-wave dynamics in a circular corral." Physical Review E, vol. 88, no. 1, 2013. |
| Harris, D. M., Williamson, C. H. K. "Instability of secondary vortices generated by a vortex pair in ground effect." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 700, 2012, pp. 148-186. |
| Harris, D. M., Miller, V. A., Williamson, C. H. K. "A short wave instability caused by the approach of a vortex pair to a ground plane." Physics of Fluids, vol. 22, no. 9, 2010, pp. 091106. |
| Miller, V. A., Harris, D. M., Williamson, Charles H. K. "Briefing: Interaction of a counter-rotating vortex pair with the ground." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering and Computational Mechanics, vol. 162, no. 4, 2009, pp. 181-183. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2010 | BS | Cornell University |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mathematics | 2015-2017 | Chapel Hill, NC |
Dedicated Faculty Award (2023)
Winner of American Physical Society Gallery of Soft Matter (2023)
Excellence in Research Mentoring Award (2022)
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in Engineering (2021)
Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award (2020)
Expert’s Choice Winner in NSF/Popular Science Visualization Challenge (2016)
Winner of American Physical Society Gallery of Fluid Motion (2015, 2012, 2009)
Housman Award for Excellence in Teaching, MIT (2015)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2011-2013)
NASA Aeronautics Graduate Scholarship (2010-2011)
| ENGN 0810 - Fluid Mechanics |
| ENGN 1735 - Vibration of Mechanical Systems |
| ENGN 1860 - Advanced Fluid Mechanics |
| ENGN 2735 - Vibration of Mechanical Systems |
| ENGN 2810 - Fluid Mechanics I |
| ENGN 2911N - Vibration of Mechanical Systems |
