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/

PhD positions are available (contact Mazi to discuss other research lines):

• Turbulent Flows of Complex Fluids (Theory & Experiments)

• Adaptive and Intelligent Robotic Matter (Theory & Experiments)

• Adaptive Biological Systems (Theory & Experiments)

• Physics of Cyanobacterial (Blue-Green Algae) Blooms (Theory & Experiments)

• Chaos and Topology in Mathematical Billiards (Theory)