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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!
Recent Posts
New Article Published in Science Advances
Nonmonotonic contactless manipulation of binary droplets via sensing of localized vapor sources on pristine substrates Robert Malinowski, Ivan P Parkin & Giorgio Volpe Droplet…
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Welcome to Solomon, a new PhD student in the group
Solomon’s project focuses focuses on the development of a new numerical scheme for modelling non-equilibrium dynamic systems, using deep-learning approaches to gain efficiency not possible…
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Welcome to Maisie, a new PhD student in the group
Maisie’s project focuses on investigating how a bacterium’s local microscopic environment influences its ability to horizontally transfer antibiotic resistance genes. Maisie is co-supervised with Dr Lena…
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New Article Published in Physical Review Letters
Microscale Marangoni Surfers Kilian Dietrich, Nick Jaensson, Ivo Buttinoni, Giorgio Volpe & Lucio Isa Highlighted in Physics We apply laser light to induce the…
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Exciting times! The new labs are ready
We are moving to a bigger, better and newer lab. We will start packing our things on Monday the 17th of August. The move should…
Our Review on Programmable Droplet Transport is out on Chemical Society Reviews
Advances Towards Programmable Droplet Transport on Solid Surfaces and its Applications Robert Malinowski, Ivan Parkin & Giorgio Volpe Droplets moving on solid surfaces are at…
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Congratulations to Robert who has been awarded his PhD Degree in Physical Chemistry
Robert Malinowski PhD Student (2015-2020) Robert completed his PhD in the dynamic control of evaporating droplets in the group (jointly supervised by Dr Volpe and…
New Article Published in Nano Letters
Far-field Wavefront Control of Nonlinear Luminescence in Disordered Gold Metasurfaces Gauthier Roubaud, Pierre Bondareff, Giorgio Volpe, Sylvain Gigan, Sébastien Bidault & Samuel Grésillon We demonstrate…
