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It is with great pleasure that we announce Ankur Gupta (University of Colorado Boulder) as the recipient of the 2025 Soft Matter lectureship. This award honours an early-career researcher who has made significant contribution to the soft matter research field. The recipient is selected by the Soft Matter Editorial Board from a list of candidates nominated by the community. Ankur’s independent res…

Soft Matter Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics Themed Collection In this blog post we give more information about our journal Soft Matter, expand on the scope of the themed collection and explain the vision for it through quotes from our Guest Editors Sanat Kumar, Guruswamy Kumaraswamy and Tom McDonald. We do hope you will consider submitting a manuscript to this timely themed collection! S…

Do you know an early-career researcher who deserves recognition for their contribution to the soft matter field? Soft Matter is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for its 2025 Lectureship award and will close on 30th April 2025. This annual award was established in 2009 to honour an early-stage career scientist who has made a significant contribution to the soft matter fi…

It is with great pleasure that we announce Sujit Datta (Caltech) as the recipient of the 2024 Soft Matter lectureship. This award honours an early-career researcher who has made significant contribution to the soft matter research field. The recipient is selected by the Soft Matter Editorial Board from a list of candidates nominated by the community. Sujit’s research is in the study of transport …

Davide received a BSc and MSc degree in Physics from the University of Padova in Italy. He then moved to the University of Warwick where he started a Doctoral Training programme in Complexity Science (2011) followed by a PhD in Physics and Complexity Science under the supervision of Prof Matthew Turner (2012-2015). His PhD thesis “Topological Interactions in Ring Polymers” received the Faculty of…

Lihua Jin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before joining UCLA in 2016, she was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. In 2014, she obtained her PhD degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University. Prior to that, she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Fudan Universit…

Ravi Kumar Pujala is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is currently at Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (LPS) at the University of Paris-Saclay as a Visiting Professor. Before joining IISER Tirupati, he worked as DST INSPIRE Faculty at School of Physics, University of Hyderab…

Jonathan Pham is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering with a secondary appointment Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to joining Cincinnati, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky. He received a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University, and earned a PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering from the Un…

Dr. Jiangshui Luo is a Professor at the College of Materials Science & Engineering, Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees from Xiamen University, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (ChineseAcademy of Sciences), and KU Leuven, respectively. His research interests include organic salts (e.g. ionic liquids, organic ionic plastic crystals, ionic …

Saad Bhamla studies biomechanics across species to engineer knowledge and tools that inspire curiosity. Saad is an assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at Georgia Tech. A self-proclaimed “tinkerer,” his lab is a trove of discoveries and inventions that span biology, physics and engineering. His current projects include studying the hydrodynamics of insect urine, worm blob locomotion an…

My research combines experimentation and theory, focusing on a broad spectrum of themes in hydrodynamics, soft and active matter. This includes hydrodynamic singularities in simple and complex fluids, rheology, and the collective behaviours of active matter systems. I received my PhD in 2016 from the University of Bordeaux in France and then worked as a […]

Dr. Scott Tsai is the Director of the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University. His undergraduate training in Mechanical Engineering is from the University of Toronto, and his masters and PhD degrees in Engineering Sciences are from Harvard University. Dr. Tsai’s […]

Dr. Xueju ‘‘Sophie’’ Wang is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Connecticut. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016 and was a postdoctoral scholar at Northwestern University from 2016 to […]

Dr. Dongshi GUAN is a Professor at the Institute of Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Professor at the School of Engineering Science at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his PhD in Physics from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2016. During 2014-2015, Guan was […]

Dmitry A. Fedosov received his Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia in 2002. After earning a MS degree in aerospace engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2004, he moved to Brown University, where he pursued a PhD degree in applied mathematics. Dmitry received a MS degree in applied mathematics in […]

  Professor Lixin Wu is currently the outstanding Tang Auching Professor in College of Chemistry at Jilin University and a PI of the State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials of China. He is also a member of Colloids and Interface Chemistry Division of the Chinese Chemistry Society. His research interests mainly focus on […]

  Professor Roberto Cerbino is a Professor of Experimental Soft Matter Physics at the University of Vienna, Austria. Before joining in 2021, he held a tenure for 14 years at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Milan, Italy. Roberto’s research encompasses the structure, dynamics, rheology, and instabilities of active and passive complex fluids, […]