3rd Meeting of the Soft Materials Network
The third meeting of the UCL Cross-Disciplinary Network on Soft Materials has taken place. With 128 attendees, the event was a success also this year!
Welcome to the Soft Active Matter Lab!
We are a group of biophysicists, physicists and chemists 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
Pint of Science!
Giorgio gave a presentation to the general public at the Pint of Science Festival. Talk Title: There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom! Talk Blurb:…
Welcome to Alessia, a new PhD student in the group.
Alessia has just joined the group to do her PhD studying the emergence of optimal search strategies in active matter systems. Benvenuta Alessia!
New Article Published in Soft Matter!
Active Matter Alters the Growth Dynamics of Coffee Rings Tugba Andac, Pascal Weigmann, Sabareesh K. P. Velu, Erçağ Pinçe, Agnese Callegari, Giorgio Volpe & Giovanni…
New Article Published in Nature Communications!
High-performance reconstruction of microscopic force fields from Brownian trajectories Laura Pérez García, Jaime Donlucas Pérez, Giorgio Volpe, Alejandro V. Arzola & Giovanni Volpe The accurate…
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Welcome to Valentino, a new PhD student in the group.
Valentino is jointly supervised with Prof Battaglia at UCL. His project focuses on the development of novel light-activated self-propelled nanovesicles.
Bacterial Cities
Rob is a runner up of the “Research Images as Art” Contest. Well done, Rob! “Water droplets are often overlooked. Caused by rain, spills and…
Best Physical Chemistry Talk
Rob has won the “Ewing Prize” for the 2018 best student presentation in Physical Chemistry with his talk “Dynamic Control of Evaporating Droplets using a…
