{"id":637,"date":"2023-11-07T20:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/?page_id=637"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:29:32","slug":"people-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/people-2\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-675 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2024\/02\/HK3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2024\/02\/HK3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2024\/02\/HK3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2024\/02\/HK3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2024\/02\/HK3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2024\/02\/HK3.jpg 1463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Hunter King\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"h4 person-position\"><span style=\"color: #cd0533\">PI<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>h.king@rutgers.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-518\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2025\/09\/kanaya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Kanaya Malakar<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"h4 person-position\"><span style=\"color: #cd0533\">Postdoctoral Associate<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>md1819@camden.rutgers.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-518\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2023\/11\/md-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2023\/11\/md-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2023\/11\/md-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2023\/11\/md.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Meron Dibia<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"h4 person-position\"><span style=\"color: #cd0533\">Graduate Student<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>md1819@camden.rutgers.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-674 \" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2024\/02\/rs-e1706806601627-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2024\/02\/rs-e1706806601627-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2024\/02\/rs-e1706806601627.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><b>Ravi Schwartz<\/b><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"h4 person-position\"><span style=\"color: #cd0533\">Graduate Student<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>rzs12@camden.rutgers.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left\">Collaborators<\/h1>\n<ol>\n<li>Guillaume Chomicki &#8212; Biology at University of Sheffield, UK<\/li>\n<li>Andres Concha &#8212; Physics at Adolfo Iba\u00f1ez University, Santiago, Chile<\/li>\n<li>Ali Dhinojwala &#8212; Polymer Science at University of Akron<\/li>\n<li>Marcelo Dias &#8212; Mechanical Engineering at University of Edinburgh, UK<\/li>\n<li>Mattia Gazzola &#8212; Mechanical Science and Engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign<\/li>\n<li>L. 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Biology at University &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/people-2\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3148,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-custom.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-637","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>People - Mechanical Ecology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mechanical-ecology-group\/people-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People - Mechanical Ecology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hunter King\u00a0 PI h.king@rutgers.edu ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Kanaya Malakar Postdoctoral Associate md1819@camden.rutgers.edu ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Meron Dibia Graduate Student md1819@camden.rutgers.edu _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ravi Schwartz Graduate Student rzs12@camden.rutgers.edu _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Collaborators Guillaume Chomicki &#8212; 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