Group members
Dr. Sara Jabbari-Farouji (Principal Investigator)
I am interested in various problems in the domain of soft matter physics.
My aim is understand the link between the underlying structure of soft materials and their dynamics and mechanical
properties by employing coarse-grained models. In my research, I combine computer simulations with statistical physics theory to a variety of soft matter problems related to experiments.
Mohammad Fazelzadeh (PhD candidate)
Project: Active filaments in complex environments
Romane Le Dizes (PhD candidate)
Project: Kinetics of sol-gel transition induced by evaporation under confinement
Jointly with Noushine Shahidzadeh
Twan Hooijschuur (PhD candidate)
Project: Mechanical properties of active polymer-like matter
Jointly with Antoine Deblais
Maxim Brodmerkel (Postdoctoral researcher)
Project: Machine Learning-based models of plant protein mixtures for sustainable food design
Jointly with Peter Bolhuis
Rose Di (Master Student)
Project: Active filaments in confinement
Marinde van Dijk (Bachelor Student)
Project: Active magnetic colloids
Alumini & visiting fellows
Jenna de Vries
Previous : Bacher thesis student 2023.
Current : Master students in Computational science
Project: Active filaments in dense granular matter
Sebastiaan de Kruize
Previous : Master thesis student 2021-2022.
Project: Chiral active particles
Loek van Steijn
Previous : Master thesis student 2021-2022.
Project: Wet Active polymers
Dr. Federico Fadda
Previous : Postdoctoral researcher in the group 2020-2022.
Project: Diffusio-phoretic active colloids
Maria Kelidou
Previous : Master student 2020-2021.
Current : PhD student at Tu Dortmund, Germany
Nicolas Zucker
Previous : Research internship 2021.
Current : Master 2 at Ecole Normale Superieur Paris
Bauke van der Vorm
Previous : Bachelor student 2021.
Current : Master student at University of Amsterdam
Dr. Tapan Chandra Adhyapak
Previous : Postdoctoral researcher in the group 2016-2018.
Current : Assistant professor at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati.
Dr. Fabian Koessel
Previous : PhD student in the group 2015-2019.
Current : Consultant at Deutsche Banh.
PhD thesis:
Emerging patterns from the collective dynamics of microswimmers in an external field
Matthias Nebouy
Previous : Visiting research fellow (2019)
Current : PhD student at INSA Lyon, France
Ata Madanchi
Previous : Visiting research fellow (2019)
Current : Research Scientist at Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Canada
Marcelo Guzman Jara
Previous : Visiting research fellow (2018 & 2019)
Current : PhD student at ENS Lyon, France
Reinier van Buel
Previous : Visiting research fellow (2016 & 2017)
Current : PhD student at TU Berlin, Germany