Marat Andreev was born in Siberia, Russia. He received both his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from Novosibirsk State University. In 2009, he moved to Chicago to join professor Jay Schieber’s group at Illinois Institute of Technology. He defended his PhD in December 2014 and stayed in Chicago by joining the de Pablo group as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago.
Marat’s scientific interests lie in the physics of condensed matter. His bachelor and master thesis was concerning hydrodynamics. During his doctorate research at Illinois Institute of Technology, his focus moved to condensed soft matter and the dynamics of entangled polymers. Particularly, he worked on the development of the fundamental and accessible framework suitable for non-homogeneous flow simulations of entangled homopolymers. Marat also worked on the technical side of the project and developed an efficient GPU code. In the de Pablo group, he continues to work on entanglement dynamics but also extended his interests to charged polymers coacervation. Concurrently, he still is honing his GPU programming skills and applying them to his work.
Complex coacervation in polyelectrolytes from a coarse-grained model
Andreev, Marat, et al. "Complex coacervation in polyelectrolytes from a coarse-grained model." Macromolecules 51.17 (2018): 6717-6723.
Phase Behavior and Salt Partitioning in Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervates
L. Li, S. Srivastava, M. Andreev, A. Marciel, J.de Pablo, M. V. Tirrell. Phase Behavior and Salt Partitioning in Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervates. Macromolecules. 2018. Vol. 51, Pg. 2988–2995.
Phase behavior and salt partitioning in polyelectrolyte complex coacervates
Li, Lu, et al. "Phase behavior and salt partitioning in polyelectrolyte complex coacervates." Macromolecules 51.8 (2018): 2988-2995.
Influence of ion solvation on the properties of electrolyte solutions
Andreev, Marat, et al. "Influence of ion solvation on the properties of electrolyte solutions." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122.14 (2018): 4029-4034.
A detailed examination of the topological constraints of lamellae-forming block copolymers
Ramírez-Hernández, Abelardo, et al. "A detailed examination of the topological constraints of lamellae-forming block copolymers." Macromolecules 51.5 (2018): 2110-2124.
Coarse-grained model of the dynamics of electrolyte solutions
Andreev, Marat, et al. "Coarse-grained model of the dynamics of electrolyte solutions." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121.34 (2017): 8195-8202.
Gel Phase Formation in Dilute Triblock Copolyelectrolyte Complexes
Srivastava, Samanvaya, et al. "Gel phase formation in dilute triblock copolyelectrolyte complexes." Nature communications 8 (2017): 14131.
Gel phase formation in dilute triblock copolyelectrolyte complexes
S. Srivastava, M. Andreev, A. E. Levi, D. J. Goldfeld, J. Mao, W. T. Heller, V. M. Prabhu, J. J. De Pablo, M. Tirrell. Gel phase formation in dilute triblock copolyelectrolyte complexes. Nature Commun.. 2017. Vol. 8, Pg. 14131.
A multi-chain polymer slip-spring model with fluctuating number of entanglements: Density fluctuations, confinement, and phase separation
Ramírez-Hernández, Abelardo, et al. "A multi-chain polymer slip-spring model with fluctuating number of entanglements: Density fluctuations, confinement, and phase separation." The Journal of chemical physics 146.1 (2017): 014903.
A multichain polymer slip-spring model with fluctuating number of entanglements for linear and nonlinear rheology
Ramírez-Hernández, Abelardo, et al. "A multichain polymer slip-spring model with fluctuating number of entanglements for linear and nonlinear rheology." The Journal of chemical physics 143.24 (2015): 243147.