Career
- 2026 - present: Associate Professor in Biological Physics & Fluid Dynamics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 2025 - present: Associate Professor in Soft Matter, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam
- 2021 - 2025: Assistant Professor in Soft Matter, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam
- 2019-2021: Wellcome Trust Interdisciplinary & Leverhulme Early Career Postdoc Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 2017-2019: Postdoc, Physics of Fluids Goup, University of Twente
- 2012-2017: Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia
My research mainly focuses on fluid dynamics, soft matter, and biological physics. Our team combines experiments, computation, and theory to study the flow of complex fluids and the biophysics of living organisms, addressing industrial, medical, and environmental challenges. Please see my personal webpage for more information: https://www.fluidlab.nl/
Publications
Bursting bubble in an elastoviscoplastic medium
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
1001,
a9
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2024.1073)
Light-regulated chloroplast morphodynamics in a single-celled dinoflagellate
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2024)
121,
e2411725121
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2411725121)
Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions.
– Soft matter
(2024)
20,
6868
(doi: 10.1039/d3sm01740k)
Morphodynamics of chloroplast network control light-avoidance response in the non-motile dinoflagellate Pyrocystis lunula
(2024)
(doi: 10.1101/2024.04.30.591832)
Billiards with Spatial Memory.
– Physical review letters
(2024)
132,
157101
Elasto-viscoplastic spreading: From plastocapillarity to elastocapillarity
– Physical Review Research
(2024)
6,
013226
Sessile drop evaporation in a gap - Crossover between diffusion-limited and phase transition-limited regime
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
960,
a32
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2023.176)
Viscoplastic lines: Printing a single filament of yield stress material on a surface
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
958,
a34
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2023.118)
Chloroplasts in plant cells show active glassy behavior under low-light conditions.
– Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
(2023)
120,
e2216497120
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2216497120)
Spreading of droplets under various gravitational accelerations.
– The Review of scientific instruments
(2022)
93,
115103
(doi: 10.1063/5.0105624)
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