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Annette Taylor
Annette Taylor
Annette joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Southampton, UK as Professor of Reaction Engineering in 2024. She obtained a PhD in nonlinear dynamics in chemical systems in 1999 from the University of Leeds and took a position in Physical Chemistry there before moving to Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 2014, where she was promoted to Professor in 2020. Her research involves the design and optimization of chemical and biochemical processes. She is particularly interested in catalytic reaction networks in aqueous phase or soft matter systems, and the control of dynamics in cellular biological or bioinspired systems. Taking inspiration from nature or the use of natural components allows us to design functional materials and processes that are greener or more sustainable, but also harness the unique properties arising from feedback in natural systems including collective behaviour (e.g. quorum sensing in bacteria) and self-organization.
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/65qvpf/professor-annette-taylor
Gili Bisker
Gili Bisker
Gili Bisker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Since joining Tel Aviv University in 2019, Prof. Bisker has combined theoretical and experimental research. On the experimental front, she is developing optical nanoprobes in the near-infrared using carbon nanotubes, and on the theoretical side, she is working on estimators of entropy production and nonequilibrium self-assembly.
Prof. Gili Bisker is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2025 Faculty of Engineering Award for Excellence in Research, the 2024 Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research for Junior Faculty, the 2023 IVS Excellence Early-Career Award, the 2022 Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, and the 2022 ERC Starting Grant. She is also a Faculty Scholar of the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program.
Previously, Gili worked as a Research Scientist at the Physics of Living Systems group at the MIT Physics Department and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Chemical Engineering Department. She earned her B.A. in Mathematics and Physics, M.Sc. in Physics, and Ph.D. in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, all from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Matilda Backholm
Matilda Backholm
Matilda Backholm is an Assistant Professor in Soft Matter Physics at the Department of Applied Physics at Aalto University, Finland. Her Living, Fluid, and Soft Matter research team develops new experimental and analytical tools to probe forces and flow of mesoscale organisms, organs, and materials, as well as capillary and fluid mechanics phenomena. Prof. Backholm received her PhD in Physics (2015) from McMaster University in Canada, MSc in Nanoscience (2011) from Aarhus University in Denmark, and BSc in Physics (2009) from the University of Helsinki in Finland. She did her postdoctoral wok as an Academy of Finland postdoc in the Soft Matter and Wetting group of Prof. Ras at Aalto University. Prof. Backholm is an ERC StG laureate and a Research Council of Finland Research Fellow, and her current research is also funded by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation as well as the Väisälä project grant by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. She also serves as a co-editor for EPL.
Natali Çizmeciyan
Natali Çizmeciyan
Dr. M. Natali Çizmeciyan is a laser physicist and research associate at Boğaziçi University, where she leads experimental studies at the intersection of ultrafast optics and soft matter physics. Her work centers on pulsed laser–matter interactions, nonlinear optics, and the development of custom optical instrumentation for photoacoustic imaging and particle manipulation. She holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Koç University, where she developed mid-infrared femtosecond lasers and contributed to nonlinear spectroscopy research. Over the years, she has built and maintained advanced laser systems, including gain-switched Ti:Sapphire lasers for high-resolution microscopy.
Her recent research focuses on optically driven Janus particles, and she is a co-author of the 2025 ACS Photonics paper on pulsed laser manipulation of asymmetrical colloids. She currently contributes to several national and EU-funded projects, including the Active Matter ITN, and serves as PI on multiple TÜBİTAK grants. With experience across photonics, biomedical optics, and soft matter, Dr. Çizmeciyan brings a multidisciplinary perspective to the design of next-generation light-based tools.
Anna Böhmer
Anna Böhmer
Anna Böhmer is a full professor of Experimental Physics at Ruhr University Bochum, where she leads the Chair of Experimental Physics IV. Her research focuses on quantum materials and complex phase transitions, particularly in unconventional superconductors. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2014. From 2014 to 2017, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA, and from 2017 to 2022, she led a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at KIT. She was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2022 and has also received the Karl-Freudenberg Prize and the Eichelberger Dissertation Prize. She currently leads the working group on quantum materials in the European COST action SUPERQUMAP.
Mona Azadkia
Mona Azadkia
Mona Azadkia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics since November 2022. Her research focuses on developing new methodologies for understanding dependency structures in data and their applications to causal inference. Before joining LSE, she was an FDS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Seminar for Statistics at ETH Zürich. She earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Sourav Chatterjee and completed her undergraduate and master's studies in Mathematics at Sharif University of Technology.
Setareh Maghsudi
Setareh Maghsudi
Setareh Maghsudi is a full professor at the Ruhr-University Bochum since 2023. From 2017 to 2023, she was an assistant professor at the Technical University of Berlin and Tübingen University. From 2015 to 2017, she held postdoctoral positions with the University of Manitoba, Canada, and Yale University, USA. She received her Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the Technical University of Berlin in 2015. Her research interests include the intersection of network analysis and optimization, game theory, machine learning, and data science. She has received several competitive fellowships, awards, and research grants from different institutes, including the German Research Foundation, the German Ministry of Education and Research, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Sarah Loos
Sarah Loos
Sarah Loos is a W2 Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany, where she leads the research group Statistical Physics Beyond Equilibrium. Her work explores how the theoretical concepts of statistical physics can be extended to nonequilibrium systems, with a focus on stochastic thermodynamics, control, and active matter.
She recently received the Early Career Award from the Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship and a DFG Walter-Benjamin Fellowship. Before joining the Max Planck Society, Sarah was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge in the group of Mike Cates and a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and held postdoctoral positions at ICTP Trieste and Leipzig University. She received three dissertation prizes for her PhD at TU Berlin, including the SKM Dissertation Prize of the German Physical Society.
Juliane Simmchen
Juliane Simmchen
Dr Juliane Simmchen is a Reader in Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde. She studied chemistry at TU Dresden and the University of Naples and received her PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2014 for her work on microscale motion.
Her research focuses on the design, synthesis and behaviour of active colloids and microswimmers. She is particularly interested in how synthetic and biohybrid particles move and interact, and how they can be guided to perform tasks. Dr Simmchen has received the Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize and the Zsigmondy Fellowship in recognition of her contributions to the field. By combining chemistry, physics, and materials science, she aims to further advance the study of active matter with potential applications in environmental remediation and biomedical microsystems.
Ceren Sibel Sayin
Ceren Sibel Sayin
Ceren Sibel Sayin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Simply Complex Lab at Ruhr University Bochum, where she studies pattern formation and emergent behavior in nonequilibrium systems using computational modeling and statistical analysis. Her work combines simulation, theory, and data-driven methods to understand how collective structures arise in driven colloidal and soft matter systems. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from Middle East Technical University in 2014, where she specialized in electronic structure theory and density functional calculations. Before joining Ruhr University Bochum, she worked as a researcher and lecturer at Bilkent University. She has contributed to several nationally and internationally funded research projects, including TÜBİTAK and ERC grants, and brings experience across condensed matter theory, soft matter physics, and interdisciplinary modeling.
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