Keynote, Plenary & Invited Talks
71) Luxembourg Microbiology Days, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg, 05/2025
70) Curvature in Biology Webinar Series, EU-COST Action (online), 05/2025
69) AI for Active Matter, International Symposium, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 03/2025
68) Understanding Physics of Life, UK (online) 03/2025
67) Mechanical Engineering Seminar, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India, 12/2024
66) Active & Responsive Soft Matter, CompFlu-2024, IIT Hyderabad, India, 12/2024
65) Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, 12/2024
64) Cargèse Summer School on Energy, Information and Evolution in Biology, Corsica, France, 08/2024
63) Applied Mathematics Seminar at the University of Loughborough, UK, 06/2024
62) International Conference, Academia Stands for the Green Deal in Nancy, France, 05/2024
61) Departmental Seminar, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland 09/2023
60) Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India 08/2023
59) Distinguished Lecture Series in Physics, Adamas University, Kolkata, India 08/2023
58) Complex Fluids and Beyond, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics & Self-Organization Göttingen, Germany, 06/2023
57) Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Manchester, NH, USA, 06/2023
56) Active Matter at Surfaces & in Complex Environments, Max Planck Inst. Phys. Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, 06/2023
55) UMIK Seminar Series, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Dübendorf, Switzerland, 05/2023
54) Departmental Seminar, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 02/2023
53) Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)-Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT, Govt. of India) Symposia, Delhi & Pune, India, 02/2023
52) Soft Matter Seminar, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, 11/2022
51) Intern. Comm. for Optics (ICO) and International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS), Dresden, Germany, 09/2022
50) Soft & Biological Active Matter, NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden, 07-08/2022
49) Artificial and Intelligent Living Matter Conference, Erice, Italy, 06/2022
48) Self-Organization under Confinement, Lorentz Center, U. Leiden, Netherlands, 02/2022
47) Pioneer Symposium, Korean Physical Society Meeting, Virtual, 10/2021
46) Annual Meeting, European Optical Society, Rome, Italy, 09/2021
45) Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre (GCEC) Colloquium, Virtual, 06/2021
44) Curvature in Biology: CurvoBio Workshop, Virtual, 04/2021
43) Climate Change Countdown, TEDx University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 10/2020
42) Int. Union of Theor. & Appl. Mech. Symposium: Interface Mechanics of Complex Flows & Soft Mat., Beijing, China, 06/2020 *
41) MRS Fall Meeting: Multiphase Fluids for Materials Science, Boston MA, USA, 12/2019
40) Parsons Microbial Systems Seminar Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA 12/2019
39) Physics Colloquium, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 11/2019
38) 2nd CriTiCS (Critical Transitions in Complex Systems) International Workshop, Luxembourg, 11/2019
37) European Union SoftComp EUSMI Annual Meeting, Ancona, Italy, 10/2019
36) European Optical Society Conference on Optofluidics, Munich, Germany, 06/2019
35) Gordon Research Conference on Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems, Ventura CA, USA, 01/2019
34) SFB Seminar, Non-equilibrium processes in biological systems: Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 01/2019
33) COMPFLU-2018: International Conference on Complex Fluids and Soft Matter, Roorkee, India, 12/2018
32) Dynamics Days Europe 2018, University of Loughborough, UK, 09/2018
31) IGB Colloquium, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology & Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, 11/2017
30) Soft Matter Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh, UK, 05/2017
29) Colloquium: Collective behavior of soft and biological matter, University of Göttingen, Germany, 04/2017
28) Biology in Space: A scientific and industrial perspective on biology in space, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 03/2017
27) Research Seminar, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont IL, USA, 03/2017
26) Earth & Environmental Sciences Seminar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA, 02/2017
25) 16th Human Frontier Science Program Awardees Meeting, Singapore, 07/2016
24) Partial Order in Materials: Analysis, Simulations & Beyond, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal, Canada, 06/2016 *
23) Physics Colloquium, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 06/2016
22) Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces Colloquium, University of Oxford, Oxford UK, 05/2016
21) Fluid Mechanics Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, 04/2016
20) Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry Seminar, EAWAG, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland, 02/2016
19) Widely Applied Mathematics Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA, 04/2015
18) Soft Matter Seminar, Tufts University, Medford MA, USA, 04/2015 *
17) Liquid Crystal Institute Seminar Series, LCI - Kent State University, Kent OH, USA, 04/2015 *
16) Soft and Bio Matter Seminar, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, 12/2014
15) Condensed Matter Seminar, Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA, 10/2014
14) MRSEC Seminar, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, USA, 09/2014
13) Digital Transformation:Impacts on Research, Göttingen Research Alumni Conference, San Francisco CA, USA, 09/2014
12) Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK, 08/2014
11) SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, University of Cambridge, UK, 08/2014
10) 2014 Glenn H. Brown Prize Talk, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 07/2014
9) Squishy Physics Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA, 06/2014
8) IGRTG 1524 Colloquium, Technical University of Berlin, Germany, 11/2013
7) CFTC Seminar Series, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 10/2013
6) Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Biddeford ME, USA, 06/2013
5) Max Planck Institute Campus Seminar, Göttingen, Germany, 09/2012
4) 24th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Mainz, Germany, 08/2012
3) Department of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 08/2012
2) 76th German Physical Society (DPG) Spring Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 03/2012
1) Faculty of Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 03/2012
Contributed Talks
23) EMBO-EMBL Symposium: The Organism and its Environment, Heidelberg, Germany, 03/2020
22) 84th German Physical Society (DPG) Spring Meeting, Dresden, Germany, 03/2020 (cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic)
21) 16th Symposium of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Potsdam, Germany, 09/2019
20) 45th German Liquid Crystal Conference, Luxembourg, 03/2018
19) 82nd German Physical Society (DPG) Spring Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 03/2018
18) 10th Liquid Matter Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 07/2017
17) 17th Human Frontier Science Program Awardees Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, 07/2017
16) ASLO 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai′i, USA, 03/2017
15) 80th German Physical Society (DPG) Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany, 03/2016
14) Lorentz Center Workshop: Microorganisms in Turbulent Flows, Leiden, the Netherlands, 02/2016
13) Flash Talk - Life Sciences PostDoc Day, Zurich, Switzerland, 10/2015
12) Living systems: from interaction patterns to critical behavior, San Servolo, Venice, Italy, 09/2015
11) 6th Swiss Microbial Ecology Meeting, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, 09/2015
10) 67th APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 11/2014
9) MIT Biophysics Retreat, Cape Cod, MA, USA, 09/2014
8) Sound bites - New England Complex Fluids Workshop, MA, USA, 02/14; 09/14; 12/14
7) American Physical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA, 03/2013
6) 77th German Physical Society (DPG) Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany, 03/2013
5) 86th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, 06/2012
4) 18th National Conference on Liquid Crystals, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India, 11/2011
3) 39th German Liquid Crystal Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 04/2011
2) 75th German Physical Society (DPG) Spring Meeting, Dresden, Germany, 03/2011
1) 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, 07/2010
Poster Presentations
4) 10th Liquid Matter Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 07/2017
3) Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Biddeford, Maine, USA, 06/2013
2) Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, South Hadley, MA, USA, 06/2011
1) 11th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Maribor, Slovenia, 02/2011
* Absence due to Covid-19 or visa-related issues