About

I'm Marcus Forst, an applied physicist and the founder of Forst Laboratories LLC. I build instruments and write software to solve problems in biomedical research.

I earned my PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2025, where I worked in Dr. Stephen Quake's lab designing a microscope to image blood flowing through human nailfold capillaries. I invented an inflatable "finger-lock" to stabilize videos and modulate blood flow, recruited and tested 82 participants under my own IRB protocol, and wrote the image-analysis pipeline in Python to extract flow velocities from video.

Before Stanford, I studied physics at Temple University, where I graduated with a 3.99 GPA and was named a Diamond Scholar. At Temple I grew and characterized monolayer MoS₂ films using CVD and STM/STS, built a pulsed laser interferometer to image sound waves, and served as president of the Physics Club.

Today at Forst Laboratories I lead projects spanning capillary microscopy, lung biology, uterine physiology, and reproductive medicine — combining hardware design, data analysis, and machine learning to accelerate translational research.