Matilda Hellström joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Matilda Hellström joined the Soft Matter Lab on 1 September 2025.

Matilda is a master student in Engineering Physics at Chalmers University of Technology.

During her time at the Soft Matter Lab, she will be working on developing self-supervised deep learning methods for analyzing microscopy data.

Jun Yi Chen joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Jun Yi Chen, master student in Chemistry at the University of Münster, started his Erasmus internship at the Physics Department of Gothenburg University on 11 August 2025.

Jun Yi holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Münster.

During his internship at the Soft Matter Lab, he will investigate the interactions of polymer-coated silica microparticles under various stimuli using optical tweezers.

Xinwen Zhang joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Xinwen Zhang started her PhD at the Physics Department of Gothenburg University on 7 July 2025.

Xinwen holds a master’s degree in Physics (biophysics) from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China.

During her PhD, she will focus on label-free optical microscopy combined with deep learning, aiming to characterize nanoparticles and uncover their physical mechanisms.

Jiacheng Huang joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Jiacheng Huang started his PhD at the Physics Department of the University of Gothenburg on 1st July 2025.

Jiacheng has a Master degree in Material and Chemical Engineering from the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Xiamen University, China.

In his PhD, which is part of the MSCA-DN SPM4.0, he will focus on machine learning and smart microscopy.

John Tember joins the Soft Matter Lab

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John Tember joined the Soft Matter Lab on 15 June 2025.

John is a PhD student in Physics at the University of Gothenburg.

He holds a Master’s degree in Media Technology and Engineering from Linköping University.

During his time at the Soft Matter Lab, he will work on data-driven life science, with a focus on developing and analyzing 3D models derived from lightsheet microscopy.

Aitor González Marfil joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Aitor González Marfil starts his visiting period at the Physics Department of the University of Gothenburg on 19 May 2025.

Aitor is a PhD student at the University of the Basque Country.

During his visit, that will last until the 19 of August, he will focus on machine learning for image analysis.

Robert Sosa Principe joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Robert Sosa Principe started his visit at the Physics Department at the University of Gothenburg on 17 May 2025.

Robert is a PostDoc in the group of Prof. Carlos Bustamante at the University of California, Berkeley.

During his visit, he will focus on experiments of single-molecule biophysics.

Ade Satria Saloka Santosa joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Ade Satria Saloka Santosa joins the Physics Department of the University of Gothenburg as a visiting PhD student from Uppsala University on 1 February 2025.

Ade holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Chemistry from Pukyong National University, South Korea, and has research experience at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS).

During his PhD, he will focus on nanofabrication and e-paper technology.

Mathilda Gustafsson joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Mathilda Gustafsson joined the Soft Matter Lab on 20 January 2025.

Mathilda is a master student in Complex Adaptive Systems at Chalmers University of Technology.

During her time at the Soft Matter Lab, she will work on a project about tracking bacteria in sequences of microscopic images. In particular she will try to solve problems with overlapping bacteria using recurrent neural networks.