Publications and Patents

My most recent output is listed below. For a full list, please see my Google Scholar profile or my department website (which also has links to pdfs).

T. A. Engstrom & D. M. Sussman, Conservative yet constitutively odd elasticity in prestressed metamaterials, arXiv:2509.19560 (2025).

T. A. Engstrom, Demands on early-career faculty, Physics Today 78 (2), 9 (2025).

R. E. Thorne, T. A. Engstrom, & R. Jayne, Sample supports for cryo-electron microscopy, U.S. Patent Pending No. US20240242926A1, published July 18, 2024.

T. A. Engstrom, Dynamics of certain Euler-Bernoulli rods and rings from a minimal coupling quantum isomorphism, Physical Review E 107, 065005 (2023).

T. A. Engstrom, J. A. Clinger, K. A. Spoth, O. B. Clarke, D. S. Closs, R. Jayne, B. A. Apker, & R. E. Thorne, High-resolution single-particle cryo-EM of samples vitrified in boiling nitrogen, International Union of Crystallography Journal 8, 1-11 (2021).

T. A. Engstrom, The quantum character of buckling instabilities in thin rods, American Journal of Physics 88, 845 (2020).

M. C. Gandikota, K. Pogoda, A. van Oosten, T. A. Engstrom, A. E. Patteson, P. A. Janmey, & J. M. Schwarz, Loops versus lines and the compression stiffening of cells, Soft Matter 16, 4389 (2020).          

T. A. Engstrom, K. Pogoda, K. Cruz, P. A. Janmey, & J. M. Schwarz, Compression stiffening in biological tissues: On the possibility of classic elasticity origins, Physical Review E 99, 052413 (2019).

A. K. Lawton, T. A. Engstrom, D. Rohrbach, M. Omura, D. H. Turnbull, J. Mamou, Teng Zhang, J. M. Schwarz, & A. L. Joyner, Cerebellar folding is initiated by mechanical constraints on a fluid-like layer without a cellular pre-pattern, eLife 8, e45019 (2019).