Topology made visible in a spinning fluid Standing waves in a draining vortex bathtub form quantized nodal structures-a wave topology set by the vortex, analogous to Aharonov–Bohm effect. Collab with Mahesh M. Bandi’s lab @oistedu.bsky.social & Andrés Concha. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

PhD Position – Active Matter Physics & Glioblastoma Invasion We’re recruiting a PhD Research Fellow at the University of Oslo 🇳🇴 to develop active matter models of glioblastoma invasion. Apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Please share with talented MSc students in physics/applied math!

PhD Position – Active Matter Physics & Embryogenesis We’re hiring a PhD Research Fellow at the University of Oslo 🇳🇴 to work on active matter physics modeling applied to embryogenesis. Apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Please share with talented MSc students in physics/applied math!

Our review article is now available in Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics: “Full-Integer Topological Defects in Polar Active Matter.” @luizaangheluta.bsky.social @emmalaang.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Why #grain #growth is not curvature flow, published today in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @tudresden.bsky.social @pnas.org

When crystals lose periodicity, dislocations gain complexity; Our study reveals an interesting hierarchy of defects in quasicrystals. With Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social and @Marcello De Donno www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Krishna, S., Gopinath, A., & Bhattacharjee, S. M. (2022). Ordering and topological defects in social wasps' nests. Scientific reports, 12(1), 12901. #EpithelialMechanics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper on modelling how epithelial cells move and reshape by swapping neighbors journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

H. P Jain, H. Richard D J, L. Angheluta, Emergent cell migration from cell shape deformations and T1 transitions. arXiv [physics.bio-ph] (2024). https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19686

Modeling dislocations in quasicrystals with Marcello De Donno and Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2504.11039

New paper on a field theory for coupling nematic ordering of the actin filaments with tissue elasticity. arxiv.org/abs/2504.10689

We published (open access) in Physical Review Research @apsphysics.bsky.social a Mesoscale field theory unifying the description of growth, elasticity, and defects in hashtag quasicrystals. Paper (code and data referenced in the text): doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

New textbook 📚 on Mathematical Methods in Physics link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Our new review on topological defects 🌀 in polar active matter is out on arXiv! Co-authored by Luiza Angheluta, Anna Lång, @emmalaang.bsky.social, and @stigoveboe.bsky.social. #ActiveMatter #TopologicalDefects #CollectiveBehavior arxiv.org/abs/2504.03284