Sean Fancher is a postdoctoral researcher in the biophysics department here at University of Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Purdue University in 2019 after researching the ways in which individual cells can use cues from their environment and other cells to obtain more accurate information about their surroundings. He then went on to work in the physics department at the University of Pennsylvania and studied how fluid flow through a network of vessels is affected by the compliance of the vessel material. Now, he researches perturbations in chemical reaction networks and their optimal structures in the lab of Prof. Jordan Horowitz.