Career
- 2007-date: Senior Research Associate, Universityof Cambridge
- 2003-2007: Senior Lecturer, Universityof Arizona
Research
My work is focused in two maint areas i) topological transitions in Fluid Dynamics ii) applications of Fluid Dynamics to solutions of living organisms.
The first area is, and has been for a long time, my main line of research starting with the study of drop pinchin in the late 1990's . The latest work relates to reconnection of Plateau borders and collapse of bounded minimal surfaces in the context of soap films.
The second one connects Fluid Mechanics with Biophysics. In particular the study of flows produced by swimming organisms and the development of equations of motion to describe the sef-sustained oscillations of long thin filaments.
Selected Publications
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Antiphase Synchronization in a Flagellar-Dominance Mutant of Chlamydomonas
Kyriacos C. Leptos, Kirsty Y. Wan, Marco Polin, Idan Tuval, Adriana I. Pesci, and Raymond E. Goldstein
Physical Review Letters 111, 158101 (2013) -
Topological Constraints and Their Breakdown in Dynamical Evolution
Raymond E. Goldstein, H. Keith Moffatt, and Adriana I. Pesci
Nonlinearity 25, R85-R98 (2012)
Publications
Theory of Cell Body Lensing and Phototaxis Sign Reversal in “Eyeless” Mutants of Chlamydomonas
(2026)
(doi: 10.64898/2026.03.11.710819)
Theory of Cell Body Lensing and Phototaxis Sign Reversal in "Eyeless" Mutants of $Chlamydomonas$
(2026)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.10986)
Note on a controlled interconversion between two minimal surfaces
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2026)
1028,
a18
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2026.11113)
Phototactic Decision-Making by Microalgae
– Physical review letters
(2025)
135,
228401
(doi: 10.1103/3fry-7tsw)
Photometric decision making during the dawn choruses of cicadas.
– Physical review. E
(2025)
112,
024401
(doi: 10.1103/4y4d-p32q)
Photometric Decision-Making During the Dawn Choruses of Cicadas
(2025)
(doi: 10.1101/2025.03.10.642322)
How do cicadas emerge together? Thermophysical aspects of their collective decision-making
– Phys Rev E
(2024)
109,
l022401
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.109.l022401)
How do Cicadas Emerge Together? Thermophysical Aspects of Their Collective Decision-Making
(2023)
(doi: 10.1101/2023.07.31.551222)
Phototaxis of Chlamydomonas arises from a tuned adaptive photoresponse shared with multicellular Volvocine green algae
– Physical Review E
(2023)
107,
014404
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.107.014404)
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