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2026

The Hidden Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells

Press coverage of our PNAS article on optimal disk packing in plant cells.

Quanta Magazine article by Max Levy →
2025

Sympoiesis Dress - The Living Look

Collaboration with Chris Bellamy & Iris van Herpen for Paris Haute Couture Week 2025

Displayed in Sculpting the Senses (in Brooklyn Museum NYC and Kunsthal Rotterdam from 2025-2026).
cc Molly SJ Lowe for Iris van Herpen
Photography: Molly SJ Lowe for Iris van Herpen
Opening event at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam September 2025
Press — Institute of Physics → Nature → The New York Times → Vogue → RTL Interview (Dutch) →
2024

Chloroplast Morphodynamics

Press coverage of our PNAS article

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cc Mauro Rodrigues/stock.adobe.com

Glowing Algae Change Morphology to Avoid Light

Physics Magazine, by Rachel Berkowitz →

A single cell's siesta

Press release, by Marcel Vonk →
2024

Billiards with Spatial Memory

press coverage of our study of mathematical billiards in PRL

Active Billiard
Phys.org by Marcel Vonk → Nature Physics → New Scientist → Article on Popular Mechanics→ Article on NRC (Dutch) →
October 2023

Bioluminescent Materials

press coverage of our collaboration with UCSD lab of Shengqiang Cai and Michael Latz published in Science Advances

Active Billiard
Article on Nature → Phys.org → New Atlas →
January 2023

Active glass-like chloroplast motion

press Coverage of our study on glassy chloroplasts in PNAS.

Chloroplast motion trajectories
Article on Phys.org by Jans Henke → Scientific American by Allison Parshall →
July 2020

Single cell bioluminescence

press coverage of our PRL on the physics of bioluminescence

Biolum
Article on Physics today by Rachel Berkowitz → Physics (APS) → Chemistry World by Philip Ball → Article by S Collins → Spiegel (German) →
2020

UK Biological Physics Group Short Video Competition

Competition page →