head of the theoretical biophysics group
research topics: lipid vesicles, colloids, liquid crystals, tissue mechanics
research topics: molecular interfaces, cavitation, surfactants
research topics: tissue mechanics, vertex model, tumor physics, physics of development
research topics: electrostatics of colloids, proteins, and viruses; RNA sequence-structure-function; order in spherical assemblies
research topics: tissue mechanics, vertex models, physics of morphogenesis, active nematics
research topics: novel mesogenic materials (modelling, structure of phases, phase transitions, response to external fields)
research topics: tissue mechanics, vertex model, membrane elasticity
research topics: statistical mechanics, biological physics, soft matter, solvation, adsorption
research topics: tissue mechanics, vertex model, non-Markovian systems, statistical physics of non-equilibrium systems, active matter
research topics: RNA, RNA-tree model, molecular modelling
research topics: foam stability, interfacial rheology, thin-film rupture mechanisms
research topics: tissue mechanics, vertex models, computational mechanobiology, intracellular assembly and optimization, active matter
research topics: molecular simulations, molecular thermodynamics, surfactants, cavitation, soft matter, equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
research topics: tissue mechanics, vertex model, elasticity theory
research topics: molecular dynamics, foam stability, rupture mechanisms of thin films
research topics: molecular dynamics, surfactant interfacial structure and adsorption mechanisms
research topics: structure of RNA, statistical mechanics of RNA folding, RNA phase separation
research topics: tissue mechanics, vertex model, tumor growth and rheology