In @quantamagazine.bsky.social today! a nice highlight of our work on chloroplast dynamics and packing inside plant cells. Thanks @maxlevy.bsky.social :)

Algal blooms and tulips? Say no more—we’re in🌷🌊 Captured by Copernicus Sentinel‑2 on 21 April 2026, this striking image over the Netherlands reveals a 'double bloom': the vivid patchwork of spring tulip fields alongside swirling blue‑green phytoplankton in the North Sea. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

How strong is a cyanobacterial colony? We use micropipette force sensors to detach a single cell from a Microcystis colony and find that the EPS matrix is strong, heterogeneous, and becomes even stronger under low nutrient availability. RP and comments are appreciated! arxiv.org/pdf/2604.27760

Two open postdoctoral positions in my group at DAMTP, at University of Cambridge: Cell Biophysics & Biological Active Matter: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/job/55046 Active & Intelligent Matter: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/job/55141 Repost is much appreciated ! 🙏🏼 #Postdoc #CellBioPhysics #Robots #ActiveMatter

📝 How does fluid flow reshape cyanobacterial blooms? Experiemnts + Theory + Field work, led by Yuri Sinzato to show when colonies break or stick, and why that matters for bloom dynamics. eLife: elifesciences.org/articles/103... Digest: elifesciences.org/digests/1035... #Cyanobacteria #Ecology

Just won the best poster award for our new work on Chloroplast Packing at the Dutch Biophysics meeting (NWO, BioPM). It was a great collab with Eric Weeks and @mazi1.bsky.social The Paper is also accepted now, so double good news :) Stay tuned!!

Hot out of press!!! Studying chloroplast organisation from the perspective of packing problems in confinement. chloroplasts show multiple configurations for different purposes (optimal light uptake in dim light vs. light avoidance in strong light for photo protection)🌿 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

💥Beyond happy 💥 Our work is now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... With Gloria Canales & @mazi1.bsky.social we studied how the single celled alga Pyrocystis lunula 🌙 move their chloroplast in response to strong light. Get ready for some fun mechanics, signals and organelle motion! 🧵

The JXB Tomato special edition is out, featuring the first publication of my PhD! We found that glandular trichome head rupture in tomato is an ultra-sensitive defense against insect predation. 🧵on plant biomechanics, fluid dynamics, and plant-insect interactions! 🧪 academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Happy to be joining the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk as an associate professor. I’ll continue my work at the Institute of Physics in Amsterdam and am much looking forward to new collaborations and scientific exchange!