Bio

I achieved my Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in the group of Prof. Matthew Turner studying collective behaviour. Here I focussed on how large groups of animals are able to organise themselves into highly ordered formations such as starlings in a murmuration. This work was featured heavily in the media at the time.

After this I went for a postdoctoral position in the group of Prof. Luca Giomi at Leiden University. Here I worked on a range of problems on the relationship between behaviour and geometry in soft and active matter including much work on active nematics. 

My next postdoctoral position was at the University of Geneva in the group of Prof. Karsten Kruse. Here the focus was on biological materials and I had the opportunity to work more closely with biologists. During 2021 I held a visiting scholar position at the MIT dept of Mathematics.

In 2022 I was awarded an SNSF Starting Grant to start my research group in the University of Geneva. My group studies problems related to the description of biological and synthetic active materials, with a particular focus on the interaction with geometry.