Computational Physics in Active Matter Systems
Contact person: Luiza Angheluta
Keywords: Computational physics, nonlinear PDE's, soft active matter, morphogenesis
Research groups: Njord Centre, ITOM
Department of Physics
Active matter entails a wide class of self-driven systems from cells and subcellular structures to organisms and robots. A better understanding of the physical principles underlying the emergent phenomena in active matter systems calls for interdisciplinary research bridging soft matter physics with life sciences and data sciences. This is instrumental to further biotech developments from drug delivery to regenerative treatments and gene therapy.
Revelant projects on active matter systems include computational physics modelling of:
- Sponetaneous flows in 3D tissue morphogenesis
- Symmetry breaking transitions and collective migration in cell monolayers
- Topological defects in active matter systems
- Topological and dynamical transitions in cell tissues and other active matter systems
- Active matter in confinement
External partners:
- Oslo University Hospital (OUH)
- Akershus University Hospital (AHUS)
- Amin Doostmohammadi (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark)
- Cristina Marchetti (University of California in Santa Barbara, USA)
- Axel Voigt (University of Dresden, Germany)
- Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford, UK)