Across vastly different scales and materials, simple local rules give rise to coherent, large-scale collective behavior as seen in epithelia, flocking birds and self-propelled colloids. My overarching goal as a scientist is to capture the physical origins of collective phenomena via numerical methods and harness their potential for biological and engineering applications.

I am a Research Fellow at INFN Padova studying soft and active matter. I previously was a postdoc at Yale University in the O'Hern group, working on glassy dynamics in cell monolayers and motility-induced phase separation. I earned my PhD at the University of Oregon working with Eric Corwin on the mechanical properties of amorphous solids near jamming.