Published articles
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[9] P. Sarkanych, M. Krasnytska, L. Gómez-Nava, P. Romanczuk and Y. Holovatch, Individual bias and fluctuations in collective decision making: from algorithms to Hamiltonians, Physical Biology 20 045005, 2023.
ArXiv: <arXiv:2302.12945>.[8] L. Gómez-Nava, R. T. Lange, P. P. Klamser, J. Lukas, L. Arias-Rodriguez, D. Bierbach, J. Krause, H. Sprekeler and P. Romanczuk, Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations, Nature Physics 19, 663-669, 2023.
Press release: here.
Media coverage:
-) Article: The bigger, the clumsier. When they move around, early multicellular organisms without a nervous system act like a swarm. Author: Solveig Steinhardt. Journal: EurekAlert!. Link: here.
-) Article: ¿Cómo se organizan los peces para escapar de un depredador? Author: Gabriela Espinosa. Journal: Sopitas.com. Link: here.
-) Article: Denken zwischen Stillstand und Chaos. Author: Wolfgang Richter. Journal: Tagesspiegel. Link: here.[7] L. Gómez-Nava, R. Bon and F. Peruani. Intermittent collective motion in sheep results from alternating the role of leader and follower, Nature Physics 18, 1494-1501, 2022.
Press release: here.
Media coverage in English:
-) Article: Sheep lead the way. Author: Cristian Huepe. Journal: Nature News & Views. Link: here.
-) Article: Physics study shows that sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence. Author: Ingrid Fadelli. Journal: Phys.org. Link: here.
-) Article: Sheep are surprisingly democratic and alternate their leaders. Author: Stephen Luntz. Journal: IFL Science. Link: here.
-) Article: When moving collectively, sheep democratically alternate their group leader, physics shows. Author: Solveig Steinhardt. Journal: Science of Intelligence Excellence Cluster. Link: here.
-) Article: Sheep flocks operate as a type of 'collective intelligence' and elect temporary leaders to guide them while moving. Author: Alexandru Micu. Journal: ZME Science. Link: here.
-) Article: Mathematics of sheep flocking, slime study could reduce vehicle drag, edible QR codes. Author: Hamish Johnston. Journal: Physics World (IOP Publishing). Link: here.
Media coverage in French:
-) Article: Le panurgisme des moutons obéit à des règles simples. Author: David Larousserie. Journal: Le Monde. Link: here.
-) Article: L'intelligence collective des moutons naît de l'alternance des chefs. Author: Pierre Giraudeau. Journal: Pour la Science. Link: here.
-) Article: Une étude physique montre que les troupeaux de moutons alternent leur chef et atteignent l'intelligence collective. Journal: Earth Press News. Link: here.
Media coverage in Italian:
-) Article: La democrazia delle pecore nella scelta del leader. Author: Gabriele Ferrari. Journal: Focus. Link: here.
-) Article: C'è una possibile spiegazione per il caso del gregge di pecore che si muove in cerchio. Author: Sara Carmignani. Journal: Galileo. Link: here.
-) Article: Le pecore sono democratiche e scelgono i propri leader a rotazione: tutte possono comandare. Author: Andrea Centini. Journal: Fanpage.it. Link: here.
Media coverage in Spanish:
-) Article: La alternancia periódica en el liderazgo facilita la inteligencia colectiva, según un estudio en ovejas. Author: Joaquim Elcacho. Journal: La Vanguardia. Link: here.
-) Article: Hablemos de las ovejas más populares: ¿Cómo eligen a los líderes en su rebaño?. Author: Gabriela Espinosa. Journal: Sopitas.com. Link: here.
Media coverage in Japanese:
-) Article: A flock of sheep acquires collective intelligence by changing the leader who leads the collective action in a short time. Journal: Gigazine. Link: here.
Media coverage in Hungarian:
-) Article: Kollektív intelligenciát mutatnak a juhnyájak. Journal: Origo. Link: here.[6] D. Bierbach*, L. Gómez-Nava*, F. A. Francisco, J. Lukas, L. Musiolek, V. V. Hafner, T. Landgraf, P. Romanczuk and J. Krause, Live fish learn to anticipate the movement of a fish-like robot, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 17 065007, 2022.
*equally contributed
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-) Review by the Science of Intelligence Excellence Cluster (SCIoI): here.
-) Review entitled Ein Fischschwarm ist wie eine Fußballmannschaft [in German] by Jannik Westerkamp for Blinker: here.[5] P. P. Klamser, L. Gómez-Nava, T. Landgraf, J. W. Jolles, D. Bierbach and P. Romanczuk. Impact of variable speed on collective movement of animal groups, Frontiers in Physics Vol. 9, 2021.
ArXiv: <arXiv:106.00959>.[4] L. Gómez-Nava, T. Goudon and F. Peruani, Kinetic and macroscopic models for active particles exploring complex environments with an internal navigation control system, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences Vol. 31, No. 08, 2021.
ArXiv: <arXiv:2109.01007>.[3] L. Gómez-Nava, R. Großmann, M. Hintsche, C. Beta and F. Peruani, A novel approach to chemotaxis: active particles guided by internal clocks, Europhysics Letters 130 (6), 68002, 2020.
ArXiv: <arXiv:2006.06408>.[2] L. Gómez-Nava, R. Großmann and F. Peruani, Markovian robots: minimal navigation strategies for active particles, Physical Review E (97), 042604, 2018.
ArXiv: <arXiv:1803.08131>.[1] F. J. Sevilla and L. Gómez-Nava, Theory of diffusion of active particles that move at constant speed in two dimensions, Physical Review E (90), 022130, 2014.
ArXiv: <arXiv:1405.0520>.
Preprints
D. Bierbach, J. Lukas, L. Gómez-Nava, F. A. Francisco, L. Arias-Rodriguez, S. Krause, K. Pacher, Y. Sevinchan, P. Romanczuk and J. Krause, Fish waves provide a generic pre-attack and post-attack defense against predators, submitted.
L. Gómez-Nava, D. Chekroun, I. Ionescu, C. Mora and M. Durand, The frontier between two epithelial tissues is unstable without the regulation of cell division rate, submitted.
ArXiv: <arXiv:2401.07569>.L. Gómez-Nava, F. A. Francisco, L. Skopeteas, P. Romanczuk and D. Bierbach, 3D quantification of highly stereotipic fights in a live bearing fish, in preparation.
L. Gómez-Nava, F. A. Francisco, L. Tillert, A. Escurra, D. Bierbach and P. Romanczuk, The role of speed adaptation in collective motion, in preparation.