We’re delighted to share the news that Eleonora Secchi (ETH Zürich) has won a Visiting Fellowship from UIB to come and visit us at IMEDEA for the month of September 2021 (COVID permitting!). Eleonora is the head of the bioMatter Microfluidics Lab at ETH. She is a truly excellent scientist and we’re very excited to have the opportunity to host her here!
Lab news
PhD opening (PHYMOT)
We are currently looking for a PhD student, funded by the Marie-Curie European Training Network PHYMOT. Come with us to study the inner biomechanics of the eukaryotic flagellum, one of the most complex known (biological) micro-machine! The PhD position is an excellent opportunity to do your research within a fantastic Europe-wide network of researchers, and an exciting plan of training activities and secondments.
To know more, feel free to email Marco. The current deadline is January 2020, with a starting date between February and December 2020. The position will be re-advertised if needed.
PDRA for Iago!
Congratulations to Iago for landing a postdoc with the wondrous Dirk Aarts, in the Colloid Group at Oxford! Very well deserved! …although he will be sorely missed once he graduates 🙂
Seeking PDRA!
A PDRA position is open in the group to work on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project on the link between light, motility and photosynthesis in microalgae. Apply here if interested, and/or contact Marco to know more!
Mixing microbial suspensions with a little bit of light
Many swimming microorganisms respond to light stimuli. Can we then use light to change the behaviour of a whole population and “order” the suspension to mix itself? Discover it in our new work, just accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. A collaboration with our friends at IMEDEA (Link to be added asap. In the meantime you can access the Arxiv version).
Dr. Henshaw!
Great news! On Friday Richard has successfully defended his PhD thesis 🙂 We were all very happy and wish Richard all the best in his future postdoc at Tufts! A couple of papers from his thesis work on micromonas will be submitted later this year 🙂
PhD and PDRA opening for biophysics of phototaxis
Currently seeking a PhD student (UK/EU) and a PDRA (any nationality) to work on an exciting new international and interdisciplinary project exploring the link between light-induced motility and photosynthesis in microalgae.
The project is generously funded by The Leverhulme Trust, and is a collaboration with Idan Tuval (IMEDEA, Mallorca Spain) and Dimitris Petroutsos (CEA, Grenoble France). It will involve extensive travelling between the partners (all costs covered)!
Apply here or here for the PhD, and here for the PDRA. Starting date Sept 2019 (potentially flexibility). Project duration 3.5y.
For more informations, feel free to contact Marco.
Richard lands US postdoc!
Great news! Richard has been offered a postdoctoral position by Jeff Guasto at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University! Well done Richard!
URSS funding for Javiera
Javiera Leemhuis, 3rd year undergraduate in Physics at Warwick, was awarded a £1000 URSS bursary for a 10-weeks URSS project this summer in collaboration with me and Kela Lushi, looking at the behaviour of microswimmers in complex confinement. Well done Javiera!
Pilot Project from Network Plus
We’re delighted to share the news that we have received travel funds from the EPSRC Network Plus Emergence and Physics Far From Equilibrium to kickstart a collaboration with the groups of Dr. Giorgio Volpe (UCL, UK), Dr. Nuno Araújo (U. Lisbon, Portugal) and Dr. Idan Tuval (IMEDEA-UIB, Spain). The project, which will start later this year, focusses on understanding and controlling transport properties of binary suspensions where microscopic active particles interact with passive ones (cargoes).
Polin Lab 