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Blood rheology

The viscosity of blood has long been used as an indicator in the understanding and treatment of disease.

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Microfluidics

Microfluidic devices have a wide range of applications including the analysis of a micro-sample, the detection of rare solutes, cell sorting, etc.

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Drug delivery

The use of targeted micro- and nano-carriers for the delivery of imaging agents and drugs provides a promising strategy for early detection and treatment of various diseases such as cancer.

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Mesoscopic methods

Mesoscopic methods bridge the gap between microscopic and macroscopic methods by coarsening many molecular details, but retaining some supra-molecular information.

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Leukocyte margination

Margination is a process of cell migration toward vessel walls, which is essential for leukocyte adhesion to endothelium.

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Cell mechanics

Mechanical properties of cells are tightly coupled with their biological functions and determine their behavior.

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Rheology

Rheology of soft-colloid suspensions plays an important role in a large range of applications.

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Hemostasis

Hemostasis is the process of blood clotting, which is required to stop bleeding at an injury site and initiate wound healing.

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Malaria

Malaria is a disease caused by a Plasmodium parasite, which infects red blood cells and leads to significant changes in their mechanical properties and morphology.

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Physics of Biological Matter Group

Our group investigates the behavior of complex biological systems and fluids, including blood, polymeric solutions, and suspensions of soft and active particles. Such systems generally exhibit incredibly complex structures, interactions, and dynamics. In particular, we are interested in blood flow in health and disease (e.g. malaria), cell mechanics and adhesion, microfluidics, rheological properties of cellular and polymeric suspensions, and the behavior of active systems. Our research interests also include multiscale modeling and hybrid algorithms that bridge atomistic, mesoscopic, and continuum scales. We employ various numerical methods, computer simulations, and analytical theory to study the behavior of different complex biological systems and fluids.



Our group is a part of the division Theoretical Physics of Living Matter at the Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI), Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany.

We are open to new contacts and collaborations. Feel free to contact us or visit us on the web.

News and Events

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Master thesis defence

Congratulations to Priyanka Iyer, as she successfully defended her Master thesis on the 26th of November 2021!

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New member

Welcome to Bohan Zhang, who joined us for a PhD project on bacteria propulsion and interactions in biofilms.

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New member

Welcome to Alper Topuz, who joined us for a PhD project on modeling hemostasis.