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
Elasto-viscoplastic spreading: From plastocapillarity to elastocapillarity
– Physical Review Research
(2024)
6,
013226
Ultrasensitive and robust mechanoluminescent living composites.
– Science advances
(2023)
9,
eadi8643
(doi: 10.1126/SCIADV.ADI8643)
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)
Interfacial aggregation of self-propelled Janus colloids in sessile droplets
– Physical Review Fluids
(2022)
7,
110514
Spreading of droplets under various gravitational accelerations
– Review of Scientific Instruments
(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
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