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Biological Physics & Mechanics

Dr Mazi Jalaal

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

Frozen by Heating: Temperature Controlled Dynamic States in Droplet Microswimmers
P Ramesh, Y Chen, P Räder, S Morsbach, M Jalaal, CC Maass
– Advanced Materials
(2025)
37,
2416813
(doi: 10.1002/adma.202416813)
Fragmentation and aggregation of cyanobacterial colonies
YZ Sinzato, R Uittenbogaard, PM Visser, J Huisman, M Jalaal
(2025)
(doi: 10.7554/elife.103503.1)
Glandular Trichome Rupture in Tomato Plants is an Ultra-Fast & Sensitive Defense Mechanism Against Insects
J Popowski, L Warma, AA Cifuentes, P Bleeker, M Jalaal
(2024)
(doi: 10.1101/2024.12.18.629216)
Bursting bubble in an elastoviscoplastic medium
AG Balasubramanian, V Sanjay, M Jalaal, R Vinuesa, O Tammisola
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
1001,
a9
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2024.1073)
Light-regulated chloroplast morphodynamics in a single-celled dinoflagellate
N Schramma, GC Canales, M Jalaal
– Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
(2024)
121,
e2411725121
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2411725121)
Bursting bubble in an elasto-viscoplastic medium
AG Balasubramanian, V Sanjay, M Jalaal, R Vinuesa, O Tammisola
(2024)
(link to publication)
Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions
T Divoux, E Agoritsas, S Aime, C Barentin, J-L Barrat, R Benzi, L Berthier, D Bi, G Biroli, D Bonn, P Bourrianne, M Bouzid, E Del Gado, H Delanoë-Ayari, K Farain, S Fielding, M Fuchs, J van der Gucht, S Henkes, M Jalaal, YM Joshi, A Lemaître, RL Leheny, S Manneville, K Martens, WCK Poon, M Popović, I Procaccia, L Ramos, JA Richards, S Rogers, S Rossi, M Sbragaglia, G Tarjus, F Toschi, V Trappe, J Vermant, M Wyart, F Zamponi, D Zare
– Soft matter
(2024)
20,
6868
(doi: 10.1039/d3sm01740k)
Morphodynamics of chloroplast network control light-avoidance response in the non-motile dinoflagellate Pyrocystis lunula
N Schramma, GC Canales, M Jalaal
(2024)
(doi: 10.1101/2024.04.30.591832)
Billiards with Spatial Memory
T Albers, S Delnoij, N Schramma, M Jalaal
– Physical review letters
(2024)
132,
157101
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.157101)
Optimal shape design of printing nozzles for extrusion-based additive manufacturing
T Schuller, M Jalaal, P Fanzio, FJ Galindo-Rosales
– Additive Manufacturing
(2024)
84,
104130
(doi: 10.1016/j.addma.2024.104130)
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Research Group

Biological Physics and Mechanics

Email

m.jalaal@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

H0.12

Telephone

01223 764043

Personal homepage

http://www.fluidlab.nl

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge