A physicist interested in how living systems build themselves.
My scientific path moved from soft matter and tissue rheology to in vivo morphogenesis, and then to self-organising embryonic organoids.
A developing tissue is both a material and an information-processing system: cells move, divide, deform, exchange neighbours and change fate while continuously sensing one another. I try to understand how these cell-scale processes become coordinated into reproducible tissue-scale forms.
Soft matter & biological physics
Training in physics, mechanics and statistical approaches to living systems.
Tissue rheology
PhD work on cell aggregates and epithelial monolayers, combining experiments, image analysis and theory.
Morphogenesis in vivo
Zebrafish, Drosophila and butterfly development, with light-sheet microscopy and physical modelling.
Embryonic organoids
A research programme on gastruloid self-organisation, imaging, mechanics and later morphogenesis.