Johnathon (John) Barbish, Ph.D.

• Instructor in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech, current
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech, 2018-2023
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech, 2014-2018
• B.S. in Physics from Virginia Tech, 2014-2018

I’m Johnathon Barbish, a recent Ph.D. graduate in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. I often go by my nickname John. I’m currently looking for new research opportunities while I am teaching as an instructor at Virginia Tech. My broad research interest include improving our understanding of complex systems including fluid mechanics and nonlinear dynamics by using tools from statistical mechanics and dynamical systems theory.

Other pages

• Publications - summaries and links to my research publications with collaborators
• Teaching - an overview of my teaching experiences and teaching philosophy
• Other Interests - some miscellaneous projects I’ve done which I wanted to share
• CV - a copy of a recent CV of mine

Fun Animations

An animation of the fluid flow around a beam as it oscillates up and down and returns to equilibrium. Part of my Ph.D. research.