PhD Students
Postdocs
Current PhD students
- Mechanics of cells and tissues
- “La Caixa” fellowship
Ido Lavi
- Chemotactic cell motility
- Co-advised with R. Voituriez and M. Piel
Former PhD students
- Self-organization and cooperativity of cytoskeletal molecular motors
- Currently a postdoc at CBG-PKS Max Planck Institutes (J. Brugués, Dresden)
- Noise, coherent activity and network structure in neuronal cultures
- Currently a postdoc at University of Calgary
- Mechanical instabilities and dynamics of living matter: from single-cell motility to collective cell migration (2015).
- Currently a postdoc at Institut Curie (J.-F. Joanny, Paris)
- Turbulent bubble suspensions and crystal growth in microgravity. Drop tower experiments and numerical simulations (2012, co-advised by X. Ruiz))
- Currently a postdoc in our group
- Studies of dynamic phenomena in soft matter and physical biology (2008, co-advised with P. Sens)
- Postdoc at Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology (D. Needleman)
- Currently group leader at MPI-CBG and MPI-PKS at Dresden
- From molecular force generation to large scale cellular movements (2006, co-advised with J.-F. Joanny and J. Prost)
- Postdoc at Harvard University (L. Mahadevan, D. Weitz, M. Brenner)
- Currently at University of California at Santa Barbara
- Interface dynamics in two-dimensional viscous flows (2002)
- Currently: Project Manager & Ruby on Rails Developer in Healthcare Software in Xarxa Santa Tecla
- Interfacial instabilities in viscous flows: theory and experiments (2004, co-advised with J. Ortín)
- Postdoc at Weizmann Institute of Science (E. Moses)
- Currently at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Roger Folch
- Phase-field approach to viscous fingering (2000, co-advised with A. Hernández-Machado)
- Postdocs at Lorentz Institute (W.van Sarloos) and MPI-PKS (M. Bär) and E. Polytechnique (M. Plapp)
- Currently in private sector
- Singular effects of surface tension in Saffman-Taylor dynamics
- Currently in private sector: CTO/Chief Software Architect at Blueknow
- Effects of modulations and external fluctuations on front dynamics (1996, co-advised with J. M. Sancho)
- Currently in private sector
Current postdoc
- Capillary boiling with controlled nucleation in microgravity.
- Research sponsored by US Air Force Office of Scientific Research and European Space Agency (2012-15)
Former postdocs
Lorenzo Sabatelli
Ernesto Nicola
Sten Rüdiger
Andrea Rocco
Giulia Iori
