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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…

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…

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…

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 […]

  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, […]

Bhuvnesh Bharti is an Anding Endowed Associate Professor in the Cain Department of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University. He received his B.S. (Hons. School) and M.S. (Hons. School) from Panjab University Chandigarh, India. He obtained his PhD at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany in 2012, which was followed by postdoctoral research at Shinshu University and […]

Rahul Mangal is presently an Associate Professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He received his PhD in 2016 from Cornell University on structural and dynamical investigation of nanoparticle polymer composites. Subsequently he did a Post Doc at University of Wisconsin Madison. After joining IIT Kanpur in 2017, […]

Tal Cohen is an Associate Professor at MIT. She joined the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in November 2016 and has a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She received both her MSc and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering at the Technion in Israel. Following her graduate studies, Tal was a postdoctoral […]

Dr Lee A. Fielding (MRSC, MIMMM, FHEA) is a Senior Lecturer in Polymer Chemistry in the Department of Materials at The University of Manchester and his research group is based in the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub within the Henry Royce Institute, where he is currently the Research Area Lead for Chemical Materials Design. He obtained an […]

Soft Matter is excited to announce an open call for submissions to themed collection on ‘Food as soft matter’ Guest Edited by Associate Professor Vivek Sharma (University of Illinois Chicago, USA), this themed collection invites contributions in form of articles, communications, reviews and perspectives aimed at understanding and analysing food as soft matter and molecular […]

The Editorial Board of Soft Matter is very pleased to spotlight some of the most exciting articles published in Soft Matter during 2022. All included papers were individually chosen by the Soft Matter Editorial Board to showcase some of the work that best encapsulates the journal.       Click here to read the collection! […]

We are very pleased to announce a themed collection in Soft Matter on the Soft matter aspects of cancer.   This special issue presents important developments in cancer cell mechanics, mechanobiology, tissue mechanics and bioengineered models of cancer, in addition to emerging technologies in the field. The Guest Editors for this collection are: Professor Tanmay […]

Dr. Moyuan Cao is currently a professor and principal investigator at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, China. He received his B. Eng. Degree (2010) and M. Sc. Degree (2013) in Macromolecular Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. In 2016, he received his Ph.D. Degree in materials sciences under the supervision […]

Jinhye Bae is an Assistant Professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at the University of California, San Diego. She received her Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015, then worked in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focuses […]

Dr. Siddhartha Das is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on the science and engineering of soft and polymeric materials, interfacial transport, and small-scale fluid mechanics for fundamental discoveries (in ion dynamics at soft interfaces, liquid transport in soft-material-functionalized nanocha…

Dr. Ankur Gupta is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the principal investigator in the Laboratory of Interfaces, Flow and Electrokinetics (LIFE). His research interests include interfacial phenomena, complex fluids, multiphase flows and electrokinetics. His work has applications in energy storage…

Henry Chu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Florida (UF).  He obtained a M.Phil. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Hong Kong in 2012 under the supervision of Professors Chiu-On Ng and Kwok-Wing Chow.  He earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 2017 under […]

Morgan Stefik is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina and is the Founding Director of the South Carolina SAXS Collaborative. He obtained a BE degree in Materials Engineering from California Polytechnic State University in 2005 and a PhD degree in Materials Science from Cornell University in 2010. He […]