May 2021
Welcome Nicolas
We welcome Nicolas Zucker in our group who is visiting us from ESPCI for doing an internship on simulations of active magnetic matter.


October 2020
Welcome Roman
We welcome Romane Le Dizes in our group who will do her PhD on "Consolidation of damaged porous media" in a joint experimental-computational project with Prof. Noushine Shahidzadeh.


September 2020
"Emergent pattern formation of microswimmers in alignment field" paper in press
Our paper Emergent pattern formation of active magnetic suspensions in an external field is published in New Journal of Physics. is published in New Journal of Physics.


August 2020
Welcome Maria
We welcome Maria Kelidou in our group who will work on collective dynamics and mechanical properties of dense active matter for her masters thesis.

May 2020
Welcome Mohammad
We welcome the first PhD student in Amsterdam group who will work on hydrodynamics of soft active matter.

April 2020
Welcome Federico
We welcome the Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics postdoctoral fellow Federico Fadda who in collaboration with the group of Prof. René van Roij will work on chemotactic and phoretic active matter.

November 2019
Postdoctoral funding from I-DTP is granted!
Our joint postdoctoral grant proposal with the group of Prof. René van Roij from Utrecht University from Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics is granted. The project aims at developing a dynamical density functional theory for chemotactic and phoretic active matter. Highly motivated candidates with an outstanding profile in active matter or non-equilibrium soft matter are welcome to contact us.

October 2019
A new group in Amsterdam
Dr. Sara Jabbari-Farouji moved to the University of Amsterdam with the prospect of enhancing the theoretical and computational soft matter activities. Strong and motivated candidates who like to join the group are welcome to contact her.

July 2019
Our paper in J. Chem. Phys. as Editor's Pick
Our paper Supramolecular copolymers predominated by alternating order: theory and application in collaboration with the group of Pol Besenius at the Chemistry department is selected as Editor's pick.

February 2019
Magnetic swimmers paper in press
Our paper Controlling stability and transport of active magnetic suspensions in an external magnetic field is published in Euro Physics Letters.

January 2019
Welcome Ata
We welcome the visiting student Ata Madanchi who will work on collective dynamics simulations of spherical microswimmers.


August 2018
The full program of CECAM Workshop on Confinement is online
The full program of workshop on "Collective Behavior of Soft and Active Matter under Confinement " is now online. Visit: here

April 2018
Welcome Marcelo
We welcome the visting student Marcelo Guzman Jara who will work on kinetic models of active magnetic particles.

May 2017
Tie chains paper in press
Our paper entitled "Role of the Intercrystalline Tie Chains Network in the Mechanical Response of Semicrystalline Polymers" is published in Physical Review Letters.

January 2017
Welcome Niklas
We welcome the internship student Niklas Tausendpfund who will work on dynamics and viscoelastic properties of polymer melts.

January 2017
Welcome back Reinier
We welcome back the visting student Reiner van Buel who will work on coarse-grained model for supramolecular copolymerizatin with alternating order.

July 2016
Welcome Jose
We welcome the visiting postdoctoral researcher Dr. Jose Ruiz-Lopez who will work on characterization of dynamics of polymer melts.

June 2016
Welcome Tapan
We welcome the new postdoctoral researcher Dr. Tapan Chandra Adhyapak who will work on multiscale modeling of anisotropic active magnetic suspensions.

May 2016
Welcome Reinier
We welcome Reinier van Buel from Eindhoven University of Technology who is visiting us for month to relate his modeling of charged linear selfassemblies to experimental data pH-regulated supramolecular polymers in group of Prof. Pol Besenius in chemistry department of university of Mainz.

March 2016
Postdoctoral funding from DFG is granted!
A postdoctoral position in modelling and simulation of active magnetic suspensions is available in my group. For further information, please click here!

January 2016
New course for summer semester
Together with my colleague Arash Nikoubashman, we offer a new course on dynamics of simple and complex fluids. For further information, please consult here.



September 2015
The full program of Workshop is available
The full program of workshop on "Women in Applied Math and Soft Matter " is now online. Visit: http://multiscalefem.sciencesconf.org/program


June 2015
New group member
We welcome Fabian Koessel who has started his PhD thesis on collective behavior of self-propelled magnetic colloids.


February 2015
Graphics selected for Cover arts
Our article on "Plastic Deformation Mechanisms of Semicrystalline and Amorphous Polymers" is featured on the cover of Journal of ACS Macro Letters.