Dr Vasily Kantsler

Career

• 2009-date: Research Associate, University of Cambridge
• 2003-2008: PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science 

Research

Vasily is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Raymond E. Goldstein research group. His current research interests are physics of cytoplasmic streaming, self organization phenomena in actin-myosin systems, dynamics of single polymers and cells, active transport in suspensions of microorganisms.

Selected Publications

• P. Denissenko, V. Kantsler, D. J. Smith, J. Kirkman-Brown Human spermatozoa migration in microchannels reveals boundary-following navigation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109 8007 (2012)
• V. Kantsler and R. E. Goldstein Fluctuations, Dynamics, and the Stretch-Coil Transition of Single Actin Filaments in Extensional Flows. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 038103 (2012)
• I. Rushkin, V. Kantsler, R. E. Goldstein Fluid Velocity Fluctuations in a Suspension of Swimming Protists. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 188101 (2010)
• J. Deschamps, V. Kantsler, E. Segre, V. Steinberg Dynamics of vesicles in general flow. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106 11444 (2009)
• V. Kantsler, E. Segre, V. Steinberg Critical dynamics of vesicle stretching transition in elongation flow. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 048101 (2008)
• V. Kantsler, E. Segre, V. Steinberg Vesicle dynamics in time-dependent elongation flow: Wrinkling instability. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 178102 (2007)
• V. Kantsler and V. Steinberg Transition to tumbling and two regimes of tumbling motion of vesicles in shear flow. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 036001 (2006)