Eduard Andrei Duta Costache joins the Soft Matter Lab

Eduard Andrei Duta Costache started his PhD at the Physics Department of the University of Gothenburg on the 19th of January 2026.

Eduard has a Master’s degree in … from … in Spain.

During the course of his PhD, as part of the GREENS MSCA Doctoral Network he will focus on …

MSCA-DN GREENS training event in Göteborg, 10-14 November 2025

GREENS Logo. (Image from MSCA-DN GREENS)
The Soft Matter Lab hosted the first training event of the MSCA-DN GREENS from the 10th to the 14th of November 2025.
Both Andrea Schiano di Colella and Eduard Andrei Duta Costache, the two doctoral candidates based at the University of Gothenburg, participated to the event along with the other doctoral candidates of the network.

The training event consisted of a series of lectures on different topics such as small scale robots and their actuation mechanisms, theoretical aspects of the simulation of the dynamics of bodies immersed in fluids at low Reynolds numbers, working principles and applications of swarm robotics, and finally artificial intelligence and its applications to data analysis in experiments.

The event included a visit to the Swedish Algae Factory (SAFAB) and Smogenlax on the topic of circular economy, and concluded with a series of meetings between the representatives of the participating institutions, from both accademia and industry, to exchange research questions and plan secondments.