Interested in learning about #intelligent #active #matter? We have three open spots for presenting a poster at an international conference close to Munich. Please send an email to frey@lmu.de before Friday noon (25.7) iam.physik.lmu.de

💧🌀 Active matter meets interface physics!
We show how conserved active emulsions form traveling interfacial waves and self-propelling liquid gears, powered by non-reciprocal chemical interactions.
🎥 Gears & belts in motion👇
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2505.20028
#ActiveMatter #PhaseSeparation #PatternFormation

My lecture “Nonequilibrium Field Theories and Stochastic Dynamics” is now on YouTube!
Here a short film on my teaching philosophy.
Watch lectures here: www.youtube.com/@PhysicsOfLi...

#Physics #Biophysics #StochasticDynamics #NonequilibriumPhysics #SoftMatter #TheoreticalPhysics #ScienceEducation

New in Nature Physics! In a great collaboration with @junlab.bsky.social and my students Henrik Weyer & @lwuerthner.bsky.social, we show how Min proteins in E. coli self-organize into robust, efficient patterns ensuring accurate cell division across conditions.
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new paper. We show how membrane-mediated interactions stabilize protein patterns, halting coarsening.
Check it out:
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

We may not have really squared the circle — but we came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper w/ @fakhrilab.bsky.social, light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter