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 Group, 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
Spreading of droplets under various gravitational accelerations.
– Rev Sci Instrum
(2022)
93,
115103
(doi: 10.1063/5.0105624)
Sessile drop evaporation in a gap -- crossover between diffusion-limited and phase transition-limited regime
(2022)
Chloroplasts in plant cells show active glassy behavior under low light conditions
(2022)
(doi: 10.1101/2022.04.15.488438)
Granular avalanches of entangled rigid particles
– Physical Review Fluids
(2021)
6,
104304
Crown formation from a cavitating bubble close to a free surface
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2021)
926,
a5
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2021.676)
Bursting bubble in a viscoplastic medium
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2021)
922,
a2
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2021.489)
Emergence of Bimodal Motility in Active Droplets
– Physical Review X
(2021)
11,
011043
(doi: 10.1103/physrevx.11.011043)
Video: Viscoplastic Water Entry
– 73th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics - Gallery of Fluid Motion
(2020)
Stress-Induced Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence at the Single Cell Level.
– Physical Review Letters
(2020)
125,
028102
Stress-Induced Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence at the Single Cell Level
– Physical review letters
(2020)
125,
028102
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