New article in Small
Anomalous Dynamics of Superparamagnetic Colloidal Microrobots with Tailored Statistics Alessia Gentili, Rainer Klages & Giorgio Volpe Living organisms have developed advanced motion strategies for efficient…
Welcome to the Soft Active Matter Lab!
We are a group of biophysicists, physicists, chemists and microbiologists at UCL. We study artificial and biological soft active matter. We are interested in its fundamental behaviours and its applications to healthcare and materials science. We are always looking for bright people to join us at any level. Get in touch!
We use a combination of techniques from soft matter, microscopy, photonics, statistical physics and nanofabrication. We are part of the UCL Soft Materials and Antimicrobial Resistance Networks. Recent research highlights are detailed below.
Recent Posts
Congratulations to Maks for successfully passing his PhD viva
Maks Pecnik Bambic PhD Student (2021-2025) Maks completed his PhD in Computational Soft Matter. During his PhD, Maks studied the effect of environmentally induced torques…
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Welcome to Ann-Céline, a new PhD student in the group
Ann-Céline’s project focuses on developing synthetic biology tools to fight AMR. This project is co-supervised with Dr Mike Booth at UCL Chemistry and is part…
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Congratulations to Sandrine for successfully passing her PhD viva
Sandrine Heijnen PhD Student (2020-2025) Sandrine completed her PhD in Physical Chemistry. During her PhD, Sandrine studied the self-organisation of thermally driven active particles.
Play ALIGNE-D online
Aligne−d is a tile-based puzzle game in which players must join two electrodes on a hexagonal grid using a selection of organic molecules. Players are scored…
Our method (U-AnD-ME) to characterise single-particle trajectories is out
U-Net 3+ for anomalous diffusion analysis enhanced with mixture estimates (U-AnD-ME) in particle-tracking data Solomon Asghar, Ran Ni & Giorgio Volpe Biophysical processes within living…
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The results of the 2nd AnDi Challenge finally out in Nature Communications
Quantitative evaluation of methods to analyze motion changes in single-particle experiments The analysis of live-cell single-molecule imaging experiments can reveal valuable information about the heterogeneity…
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Our Roadmap for Animate Matter is out
Roadmap for Animate Matter Giorgio Volpe, Nuno A. M. Araujo, Maria Guix, Mark Miodownik, Nicolas Martin, Laura Alvarez, Juliane Simmchen, Roberto di Leonardo, Nicola Pellicciotta,…
Gold Leaf award for sustainability to our lab
Our lab has been reawarded a Gold Medal for Sustainability within the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF). Thank you to Jaume for leading our efforts…
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