Feb 11, 2020
Collective functionality in intelligent active matter: Bridging multi-scale biology with the physics of solids, fluids and information
Date: February 11, 2020 |
9:00 am –
10:00 am
Speaker:
Arnold JTM Mathijssen, Stanford University
Location: Mondi Seminar Room 2, Central Building
BIO: Arnold completed his MSci in theoretical physics at University College London (2012), where he was named Best Overall Undergraduate and 30 under 30 by Scientific American. He then joined the group of Julia Yeomans FRS for his DPhil at the University Oxford (2016), specialising in biological physics, specifically in the hydrodynamics and non-equilibrium statistical physics of active matter. This work was awarded the Sir Sam Edwards PhD Thesis Prize. Supported by an HFSP cross-disciplinary fellowship, he moved to the lab of Manu Prakash at Stanford University, where he currently works on the physics of pathogens and ultra-fast biology. Outside the lab, Arnold is very enthusiastic about science communication. He worked as editor and editor-in-chief of a student-led magazine, and now he frequently organises family events, school visits and science hikes. Please join!
1.Mathijssen AJTM, Culver J, Bhamla MS, Prakash M, Collective intercellular communication through ultra-fast hydrodynamic trigger waves, Nature 571, 560-564 (2019)
2.Mathijssen AJTM, Figueroa-Morales N, Junot G, Lindner A, Clement E, Zttl A, Oscillatory surface rheotaxis of swimming E. coli bacteria, Nat. Comm. 10, 3434 (2019)
3.Ramirez-San Juan G, Mathijssen AJTM, He M, Jan L, Marshall WF, Prakash M, Multi-scale heterogeneity enhances mucus clearance in mouse airways, under review at Nat. Phys.