Pedro Manrique Charry

Assistant Professor
Pedro Manrique Charry

Phone 863-874-8647

Location Main Campus

Office BARC-2276

Directory Physics

Dr. Pedro D. Manrique joined IM体育官网 in the fall of 2024 as a visiting faculty member. Shortly after, he was appointed full-time assistant professor of physics beginning in the spring of 2025. He is a theoretical and computational physicist with expertise in theoretical and computational characterization of complex adaptive systems.

Prior to joining IM体育官网 Poly, he held a research scientist position at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., from 2021 to 2024. While at GWU, he developed statistical physics theories to study protein aggregation in heterogeneous biomolecular environments, online distrust networks, and cohesive behavior in cyber physical systems. 

From 2019 to 2021, Manrique was a postdoctoral fellow in the theoretical division of Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, where he focused on multi-scale modeling of biosystems within the context of antimicrobial resistance and a network modeling approach aimed at predicting protein disruption. He also held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Physics at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, IM体育官网, from 2016 to 2019. While there, he worked on game theories and agent-based models with applications in taxis in simple organisms, bacterial photosynthesis, social networks, and contagion phenomena. He has published in top-tier scientific journals including Nature, Science, Science Advances and Physical Review Letters.

Outside work, Manrique enjoys spending time with family and friends. He is a passionate obstacle course racing athlete and a choral singer with special affinity for Gregorian chants. One of his favorite activities is drawing families of dragons and penguins with his children and nieces.

  • Editors鈥 Suggestion Recognition. Letter Article: 鈥淪hockwavelike behavior across social media鈥. American Physical Society Editorial Office. Hauppauge, New York (2023)
  • Spot Award. Project: 鈥淐ell-to-Cell Heterogeneity in Antibiotic Resistance: Accounting for Efflux Pumps and Impermeability鈥. Associate Laboratory Director for Simulation and Computation (ALDSC). Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos, New Mexico (2021)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Director鈥檚 Fellowship Award. 鈥淢ultiscale Quantitative Description of Drug Resistance Mechanisms in Bacterial Systems鈥 Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos, New Mexico (2019 鈥 2021)
  • International Max Plank Research School for Dynamical Processes in Atoms, Molecules, and Solids Fellowship Award, Max Plank Institute, Dresden, Germany (2009 鈥 2010)
  • Proyecto 鈥淪emilla鈥 Fellowship Award. 鈥淣on-Markovian thermalization for few qubit system鈥 Department of Physics, University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia (2007)
  • Ph.D. in Physics, University of Miami, 2015
  • M.S. in Physics, University of Los Andes, 2009
  • B.S. in Physics, University of Los Andes, 2007
  • Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Biophysics
  • Networks
  • Data Science
  • Review Editor Board member of Frontiers in Physics, 2023-current
  • Review Editor Board member of Frontiers in Complex Systems Theory, 2023-current
  • Guest editor MDPI Computation: Special Issue 鈥淐omputational Social Sciences and Complex Systems鈥, 2022-current
  • Guest editor MDPI Entropy: Special Issue 鈥淣on-Equilibrium Physics and Its Interdisciplinary Applications鈥, 2024-current
1. P.D. Manrique, F. Huo, S. El Oud, N. F. Johnson. (2024) 鈥淣on-equilibrium physics of multi-species assembly applied to fibrils inhibition in biomolecular condensates and growth of online distrust鈥. Scientific Reports, 14, 21911,  
2. P.D. Manrique, et al. I. V. Leus, C. A. Lopez, J. Mehla, G. Malloci, S. Gervasoni, A. V. Vargiu, R. Kinthada, L. Herndon, N. W. Hengartner, J. K. Walker, V. V. Rybenkov, P. Ruggerone, H. I. Zgurskaya, S. Gnanakaran. (2024) 鈥淧redicting Permeation of compounds across the outer membrane of P. aeruginosa using molecular descriptors鈥, Communications Chemistry, 7, 84.  
3. P.D. Manrique, F. Huo, S. El Oud, M Zheng, L. Illari, N.F. Johnson. (2023) 鈥淪hockwavelike behavior across social media鈥. Physical Review Letters, 130, 237401.
4. P.D. Manrique, S. Chakraborty, R. Henderson, R. J. Edwards, R. Mansbach, K. Nguyen, V. Stalls, C. Saunders, K. Mansouri, P. Acharya, B. Korber, S. Gnanakaran. (2023) 鈥淣etwork analysis uncovers the communication structure of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein identifying sites for immunogen design鈥. iScience, 26, 1. 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105855
5. N.F. Johnson, N. Velasquez, N. Johnson Restrepo, R. Leahy, N. Gabriel, S. El Oud, M. Zheng, P. Manrique, S. Wuchty, Y. Lupu. (2020) 鈥淭he online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views鈥. Nature, 582, 230-233  
6. P.D. Manrique, M. Klein, Y Li, C. Xu, P.M. Hui, N.F. Johnson. (2019) 鈥淕etting closer to the goal by being less capable鈥. Science Advances, 5, eaau5902 10.1126/sciadv.aau5902
7. P.D. Manrique, M. Zheng, Z. Cao, E.M. Restrepo, N.F. Johnson. (2018) 鈥淕eneralized gelation theory describes onset of online extremist support鈥. Physical Review Letters, 121 048301,  
8. P. Manrique, Z. Cao, A. Gabriel, J. Horgan, P. Gill, H. Qi, E.M. Restrepo, D. Johnson, S. Wuchty, C. Song, N. Johnson. (2016) 鈥淲omen鈥檚 connectivity in extreme networks鈥. Science Advances, 2, e1501742 DOI:10.1126/sciadv.1501742
9. N.F. Johnson, M. Zheng, Y. Vorobyeva, A. Gabriel, H. Qi, N. Vel谩squez, P. Manrique, D. Johnson, E. Restrepo, C. Song, S. Wuchty. (2016) 鈥淣ew ecology of adversarial aggregates: ISIS and beyond鈥. Science, 352, 1459-1463, DOI:10.1126/science.aaf0675
10. P.D. Manrique, F. Rodr铆guez, L. Quiroga, N.F. Johnson. (2015) 鈥淣onequilibrium quantum systems: divergence between global and local descriptions鈥. Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, 615727,  

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