Group members

Dr. Sara Jabbari-Farouji (Principal Investigator)

Sara
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.

Maxim Brodmerkel (Postdoctoral researcher)

Maxim

Project: Machine Learning-based models of plant protein mixtures for sustainable food design

Jointly with Peter Bolhuis








Mohammad Fazelzadeh (PhD candidate)

Mohammad

Project: Active filaments in complex environments










Romane Le Dizes (PhD candidate)

Mohammad

Project: Kinetics of sol-gel transition induced by evaporation under confinement

Jointly with Noushine Shahidzadeh







Twan Hooijschuur (PhD candidate)

Twan

Project: Mechanical properties of active polymer-like matter

Jointly with Antoine Deblais








Vito Seinen (PhD candidate)

Vito

Project: Statistical physics of emergent transitions in active matter

Jointly with Peter Bolhuis, Daan Crommelin and Michel Mandjes








Rose Di (Master Student)

Rose

Project: Role of evnironmental disorder on conformation and motion of active polymers











Baptiste Parage (Master Student)

Baptiste

Project: Active magnetic particles in external field











Vincent Krabbenborg (Master Student)

Vincent

Project: Designing the shape of filaments by distribution of molecular motors












Morris Huismans (Bachelor Student)

Morris

Project: Collective dynamics of dense active magnetic particles











Alumini & visiting fellows


Marinde van Dijk (Bachelor Student)

Rose

Project: Active magnetic colloids












Jenna de Vries

Seb

Previous : Bacher thesis student 2023.
Current : Master students in Computational science

Project: Active filaments in dense granular matter









Sebastiaan de Kruize

Seb

Previous : Master thesis student 2021-2022.

Project: Chiral active particles









Loek van Steijn

Loek

Previous : Master thesis student 2021-2022.

Project: Wet Active polymers








Dr. Federico Fadda

Federico
Previous : Postdoctoral researcher in the group 2020-2022.

Project: Diffusio-phoretic active colloids










Maria Kelidou

Maria

Previous : Master student 2020-2021.
Current : PhD student at Tu Dortmund, Germany










Nicolas Zucker

Maria
Previous : Research internship 2021.
Current : Master 2 at Ecole Normale Superieur Paris










Bauke van der Vorm

Bauke
Previous : Bachelor student 2021.
Current : Master student at University of Amsterdam










Dr. Tapan Chandra Adhyapak

Tapan

Previous : Postdoctoral researcher in the group 2016-2018.
Current : Assistant professor at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati.





Dr. Fabian Koessel

Fabian

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