MARIA TATULEA-CODREAN
ELS KOFFEMAN FELLOW IN BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
I am a theoretician broadly interested in problems at the interface of mathematics, physics and biology. Since July 2025, I am the Els Koffeman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam. My current research interests revolve around the themes of flows (flows around and in between filaments, flows in membranes), motors (in particular, bacterial flagellar motors) and oscillators (synchronization of coupled non-linear oscillators, and biological rhythms more broadly).
Previously, I held the Lynden-Bell Research Fellowship in Mathematics at Clare College, Cambridge. Before that, I was a postdoctoral research associate of Prof Jean-Francois Joanny at the Collège de France in Paris and carried out my doctoral studies in Prof Eric Lauga's group at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. My doctoral work involved the use of mathematical modelling and numerical simulations to study the swimming of multi-flagellated bacteria such as the model organism Escherichia coli.
