Wylie Ahmed visits the Soft Matter Lab. Welcome!

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Wylie Ahmed is a Visiting Professor from the Laboratoire de Physique Theorique in Toulouse, France. He is also an associate professor (on leave) at California State University, Fullerton where he leads the Laboratory for Soft, Living, and Active Matter (SLAMLab). His visiting position is financed through the CNRS with partial support from the Soft Matter Lab.
He will visit us for 5 months from March 1, 2024, to July 31, 2024.

He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Institut Curie in Paris, France. He started his group in 2016 in California and is now moving his research activities to Toulouse France. His research interests are in cellular biophysics, soft and active matter physics, and bio-inspired materials with a theme towards understanding emergent behavior.

Anoop C. Patil joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Anoop C. Patil joined the Soft Matter lab on March 1, 2024.

Anoop is a Senior Fellow at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART) center, based in the National University Singapore campus, Singapore.

He is working on computational analysis for precision agriculture at Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP), SMART, Singapore. As a part of this work, he is also working on the BRAPH-2 platform for spectral analysis applications at DiSTAP, SMART, and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL), Singapore.

Norma Caridad Palmero Cruz joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Norma Caridad Palmero Cruz starts her PhD at the Physics Department at the University of Gothenburg on 8th January 2024.

Norma has a Master degree in Physics from the University of Havana, Cuba.

In her PhD, Norma will focus on on the study of biological systems using optical tweezers and light sheets techniques.

Gideon Jägenstedt joins as PhD student the Soft Matter Lab

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Gideon Jägenstedt started his PhD at the Physics Department of the University of Gothenburg on the 1st of September 2023.

Gideon has a master degree in Complex Adaptive Systems from Chalmers University of Technology.

In his PhD, Gideon will focus his research on deep learning.

Mirja Granfors joins as PhD student the Soft Matter Lab

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Mirja Granfors starts her PhD at the Physics Department at the University of Gothenburg on 1st September 2023.

Mirja has a Master degree in Physics from the University of Gothenburg.

In her PhD, Mirja will focus on graph neural networks and deep learning.

Antonio Ciarlo joins as postdoc the Soft Matter Lab

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Antonio Ciarlo joined as postdoc the Soft Matter Lab on 18th July 2023.

Antonio has a PhD degree in Physics from the University of University of Naples, Italy.

During his postdoc, Antonio will continue his work on the modelling and the analysis of the data of his experiments with intracavity optical trapping.

Emir Erdem joins the Soft Matter Lab

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Emir Erdem joined the Soft Matter Lab on June 17, 2023.

Emir is an undergraduate student at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.

During his time at the Soft Matter Lab, he will be working on the modeling of red blood cells with geometrical optics.

He is supported by an Erasmus Traineeship scholarship. He will stay in our lab till September 13, 2023.