@pranayjaiswal.bsky.social @advait-thatte.bsky.social Back from @apsphysics.bsky.social this year. Was a super dynamic and fruitful conference, APS Global Physics Summit being the largest physics research conference in the world, meeting former collaborates and discussing potential collaborations. 👨🔬
Continuing with our yearly tradition of our Physics Faculty Football Tournament at the University of Augsburg last week. Even with many players from the group out from being sick, was still a really fun day for the faculty, and one we always look forward to. ⚽⚛️
Was a great week at DPG in Dresden this year! Was a pleasure to share our work with several talks and poster sessions, and was super exciting connecting with physicists working on many interesting topics. A big thank you to the @dfg.de @sfp-physique.bsky.social for the organisation this year. 👨🔬👩🔬
Was great to be at the International Workshop from the
16 - 20 February, discussing topics that range "From Adaptive to Active Wetting Dynamics". It was an amazing interdisciplinary workshop and a big thank you to all the organisers and the participants for fruitful discussions. @mpipks.bsky.social
Congrats to Dr.
@ivarhaugerud.bsky.social
who just defended his PhD AND published in PNAS his work studying how droplets influence polymerization of sequences, while, in turn, sequence polymerization affects droplet dynamics! With
@m-pol.bsky.social
+ Dieter Braun
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We are very proud of Dr. Ivar Haugerud for successfully defending his PhD thesis at the University of Augsburg in December 2025. We wish him all the best in his post-doc position back in Oslo with Prof. Andreas Carlson at the University of Oslo. @uio.no 🥂🍾🎉
Active droplets are fundamental in cell biology and origin of life. With Jonathan Bauermann, @boekhovenlab.bsky.social, Frank Jülicher, and @m-pol.bsky.social, we show that a critical transition influences their size, morphology, ripening and division propensity
journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
Can prebiotic chemistry harvest energy from cyclic environments?
We explore how oscillating reservoirs can drive chemical systems to extract power. Revealing resonance regimes for optimal harvest.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10266
@pranayjaiswal.bsky.social, @ivarhaugerud.bsky.social and Hidde D. Vuijk.
The CECAM workshop “Multiscale modeling of chemically active mixtures” was a fruitful and stimulating meeting — combining deep discussions, new collaborations, and inspiring science. Thanks to beautiful Lausanne for providing the perfect backdrop! 🇨🇭🏔️ @cecamevents.bsky.social
New pre-print with Jacqueline Janssen and Frank Jülicher! We extend the Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner (LSW) theory by matter supply, and find a novel universal law governing coarsening kinetics, valid for any constant matter supply in the interface-resistance-limited regime.
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21552
'Liquid shells: A peculiar state':
Will be visiting the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation for a Colloquium, discussing the formation of liquid shells using non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Feel free to drop by or join online. 💧🐚
www.ds.mpg.de/events/41316...
Very much looking forward to the second edition of the ICTP-SAIFR thematic series of schools on biological physics across scales, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
More information and applications: www.ictp-saifr.org/sbpas2026/
Great days at Frontiers in Nanoscience with @cens-lmu.bsky.social & @crc392molevo.bsky.social! Met new people, reconnected with old collaborators, and enjoyed inspiring talks, posters, and discussions. Hard to beat doing science with a view of Venice from the international university at San Servolo!
Good news in rough times:
Our work on generalising Lifshitz-Slyosov-Wagner (LSW) theory to active systems, led by the all-mighty Jonathan Bauermann, is out on PRL!! Special thanks to Christoph Weber @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher.
doi-org.sire.ub.edu/10.1103/f5x9...
Another pre-print from our group see's the light of day! 🎉 This time we how the coarsening of droplets is affected by advection and reactions: arxiv.org/abs/2510.00827 @stefankoestler2025.bsky.social describes our surprising findings in the thread below ⤵️
Also a big congratulations to @larshubatsch.bsky.social, @daxiaosun.bsky.social and all the other recipients of the Independence Accelerator Award. Wish you'll the best in your next scientific endeavours. 🔬📖🤞
www.spp2191.com/independence...
Thanks to the @spp2191.bsky.social and @gbmev.bsky.social for the amazing organisation of the "GBM Compact: Focus on Condensate Biology" Conference and the SPP2191 Satellite Meeting. 🧬💧
Great to see the role of phase separation in the culinary world being recognised. 🧀🍝 A huge congratulations to @gbart.bsky.social and collaborators!
Looking back on the "Emergence and Self-organisation in Biological Systems" conference last month @esbs2025.bsky.social, celebrating the contributions of Prof. Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social to the field (and his birthday 🎂). Was a great conference, catching up with lots of familiar faces.
Was super fun to host the Michaels Group from ETH for a collaborative visit last week. 🤝 As a coincidental bonus, we celebrated the Autumn Augsburg Plärrer Folkfestival together with lots of laughs, drinks and great discussions. 🍻
A sneak peak into our yearly summer group retreat with the Comp. Bio Group of Prof. Nadine Schwierz and the Stat. Physics of Life Group of Prof. Abhinav Sharma in Sion, Switzerland. Was a great chance to spend time in nature, and to share and discuss exciting new collaborations. ☀️⛰️🫕
Excited to share our new JACS paper "Controlling Multiphase Coacervate Wetting and Self‑Organization by Interfacial Proteins"
Together with our fantastic collaborators @spruijtlab.bsky.social l we show how surface-active proteins tune condensate architecture and organization.
David @zwickergroup.bsky.social gives the first tutorial of the biomol25 program @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social, reminding us that phase equilibria and chemical equilibria are coupled by thermodynamics
Shura Grosberg (NYU) gives a fantastic blackboard talk @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social on liquid-liquid phase separation in and out of equilibrium 👨🏫
How can a cell control the size of its organelles?
Excited to share a mechanism to control droplet size we recently found.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
