Roster of Participants

I am an experimental physicist currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Brandeis MRSEC, specializing in interdisciplinary research that merges physics, engineering, DNA nanotechnology, and materials science to pioneer the next generation of biomaterials. I got my PhD from JNCASR, India, where I explored the interplay of nature, activity, chirality, and deformability in glassy slowing down. I developed a novel strategy to 3-D print tunable designer active granular matter. Looking ahead, I am driven to explore non-equilibrium self-assembly, inspired by the fascinating mechanisms observed in biology. My approach involves leveraging inanimate objects as tools, designed to replicate the functionalities inherent to living systems.

I am an experimentalist interested in shear thickening suspensions, and specifically exploring how shear thickening behavior can be manipulated via external perturbations.

I am a theorist interested in self-organization in active matter, and have been working on phase separation and wetting in active systems. I have worked on a two-fluid model to model mixtures of active species, and also done work on active nematics in viscoelastic confinement.

I am a theorist interested in the emerging collective behavior of actively migrating cells. By utilizing principles from active matter physics, I aim to investigate what parameters determine the formation of migratory cell clusters in (densely-packed) tumor environments.

I am a theorist interested in understanding mechanochemical consequences of condensates, particularly in the context of actin cytoskeleton.

Interests: Activa matter, phase separation, axonal dynamics

I am a theorist interested in nonequilibrium pattern formation (in biological systems or otherwise) and soft metamaterials (with or without activity). In my current research projects, I use group theory to understand the effect of buckling in continuum phononic metamaterials as well as create phase-field simulations to probe the effect of hydrodynamics in multicomponent phase-separating flow systems.

I am a theorist interested in pattern formation and oscillatory behavior in nonequilibrium systems, focusing on systems where multiple field variables (e.g., multicomponent systems) are coupled.

I am a theorist. The main topic of my Ph.D. thesis is on force inference, mechanical analysis, and physical modeling of biological tissues in fish embryos. My background is in biological physics, especially in active matter, focusing on tissue mechanics and collective movement.

I am a theorist interested in modelling the nodal-signal mediated internalization during the Zebrafish embryo Gastrulation using the Self-propelled Voronoi framework.

I am an experimentalist whose interests lie at the intersection of soft matter, fluid mechanics and soft robotics, including designing self-learning elasto-mechanical networks with embodied intelligence, and investigating collective ciliary dynamics on curved geometry or near interfaces.

I am a theorist interested in non-equilibrium pattern formation during evaporation. I also interested in the phase behavior of nanoparticle suspensions with a binary solvent mixture. Right now, I’m working on the analytical solution of disc-disc potential and its implementation in MD simulations.

I am a theorist who studies the effect of internal prestress in disordered materials. Specifically, how it changes their mechanics and trainability.

I am a theorist interested in biological physics modelling at the level of cell membranes, the cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix with a focus on out-of-equilibrium systems and dynamics, and with a strong link to experimentalists.

I’m a theorist interested in the interplay between geometry and elastic deformations in thin structures. I also like to think about problems motivated by biological systems, e.g. noise-induced transitions in bacteria, elasticity of fluid membranes.

I am a theorist interested in the interplay between reaction-diffusion processes and a geometry shaped (curved, organized) by active matter phenomena.

I am a theorist broadly interested in understanding the principles underlying equilibrium and non-equilibrium self-assembly. Currently, I am studying the role of dynamics in the formation of charged protein-polyelectrolyte biomolecular condensates using theory and simulations.

I am a theorist. One project is a coarse-grained MD simulation of BRD4 condensates on/off chromatin. Another project is a computational study of low mobility effects on nucleation barriers in multicomponent systems.

I am an experimentalist interested in understanding and manipulating the biomechanics of morphogenesis.

I am a theorist interested in understanding the spatio-temporal organization of patterns in biological systems, particularly in biological membranes, with a field-theoretic approach.

I am a theorist interested in the theory of soft and active matter, with a particular focus on nonequilibrium pattern formation, disordered systems, localization, and topologically/geometrically-driven phenomena.

I am theorist. Utilising hydrodynamic theories, I study the physics of active nematic and polar systems on both rigid and deformable surfaces, with a focus on their relevance to epithelial morphogenesis.

I am a theorist interested in the emergent collective behavior of cells in dense biological tissues, which is relevant in a broad range of biological processes, including cancer invasion and embryonic development. I am working on how topological defects are generated by the active forces of cell division and apoptosis in homeostatic tissues, and searching for hidden order between crystal order and total disorder.

I am a theorist using the theory of deformable, fluid membranes and simulations to understand how deep sea invertebrates adapt their lipidomes to the high-pressure environment of the deep ocean.

I’m a theorist. I’m interested in emergence of order via evolved interactions in soft matter systems, I also work on understanding the wetting properties of multicomponent protein condensates.

I am a theorist interested in the physics of cell motility, sensing and chemotaxis, collective motion, and soft matter.

I am an experimentalist interested in phase separation in lipid membrane vesicles.

I am a theorist, broadly interested in designing mechanical metamaterials inspired by a variety of soft matter systems, especially granular/disordered solids.

I am an experimentalist fascinated by non-equilibrium pattern formation. I am currently trying to understand the emergence of traveling biochemical waves on the plasma membrane of livings cells.

I develop theory and computational models to study the mechanics and self-organization of biological active matter.

I am an experimentalist. We study how living matter emerges from collections of molecules to control physiology of cells and tissues. We apply this understanding to design and build new types of active and adaptive soft materials and engineer the shape and dynamics of cells and tissue.

Our research interests span fields of cellular biophysics, epithelial and endothelial biology, cell adhesion & migration, active & adaptive matter, cytoskeleton dynamics and mechanics and cell mechanotransduction.

I am a theorist who studies how large molecules self-organise far from equilibrium, to give living from non-living. Recently I’ve been interested in physics behind cell division, cell trafficking, and multicellular symbiosis.

I am an experimentalist who develops a multidisciplinary approach, largely based on biomimetic systems, and quantitative mechanical and microscopy methods to understand the role of biological membranes and of their organization in different cellular functions, in particular cellular trafficking, or the mechanics and the generation of cellular protrusions. In addition, I am interested in a physical understanding of biomembranes, such as the relation between membrane proteins’ shape and their diffusion or their lateral distribution on membranes.

I am a theorist interested in collective behavior in network-like soft materials, particularly biological systems that involve an interplay between mechanics, (equilibrium or non-equilibrium) statistical mechanics, geometry, and structural properties.

I am an experimentalist with a long-standing interest in particulate forms of soft matter such as foams, granular media, suspensions. Recent interest in intersection of machine learning and soft matter, and now electronic and mechanical metamaterials that can learn complex functionality using local rules.

I use theoretical and computational tools to study how biomolecular systems self-organize via phase separation and self-assembly.

I am a theorist who studies the collective behavior of group of cells in biological tissues as well as deformation and failure in disordered solids ranging from glasses to granular materials. We use computational and theoretical techniques and extend tools from statistical and soft matter physics to understand and predict emergent phenomena in these far from equilibrium systems, and work closely with experimentalists and scientists around the globe.

I am a theoretical physicist interested in the emergent behavior of active matter. My group employs theory and computation and makes complementary use of bottom-up modeling and top-down phenomenology to investigate the self-organized structural and mechanical properties of these complex systems.

I am an experimentalist interested in the interplay between mechanics, genes, and geometry in organ development. My lab studies the collective cell behaviors and mechanical interactions across tissue layers that govern morphogenesis in embryonic visceral organs. To do so, we combine whole-organ live imaging, genetic tools, computation, and analytic approaches from soft matter physics.

I am an experimentalist. I use highly interdisciplinary approaches including theory and experiments to understand how computation is embodied in biological matter. Examples include cognition in single cell protists, morphological computing in animals with no neurons and origins of complex behavior in multi-cellular systems. Broadly, I invent new tools for studying non-model organisms with significant focus on life in the ocean - addressing fundamental questions of cell biology in context of its ecology? I am also dedicated towards inventing, building and scaling-up “frugal science” tools to democratize access to science such as Foldscope, diagnostics of deadly diseases like malaria and convening global citizen science communities to tackle planetary scale environmental challenges such as mosquito or plankton surveillance by citizen sailors mapping the ocean in the age of Anthropocene.

I am a theorist whose group’s interests span several areas at the interface between science, engineering and applied mathematics. Recent work encompasses biophysics, active matter, machine learning, robotics, metamaterials, topological insulators, hydrodynamics, dynamical systems and soft materials. Often the rich phenomenology of these complex systems arises from the interplay between strong non-linearities, disorder and dynamics far from equilibrium that we explore using analytical and numerical tools in close collaboration with experimentalists.

I am a theorist. I apply techniques from theoretical and computational physics to problems in soft condensed matter and biophysics. I am currently particularly interested in active matter and mechanobiology.