I'm an assistant professor of experimental condensed matter physics, research group leader (Active Matter) and Academy Research Fellow 2018-2023. I'm broadly interested in physics of soft and biological materials. Some examples include pattern formation in ferrofluids, lotus-mimicking superhydrophobic surfaces, magnetic tweezing of 'non-magnetic' matter, coloration of a certain spider from Madagascar and fundamentals of slippery lubricated surfaces. Currently, my Academy Research Fellowship and ERC Starting Grant focus on microscopic active matter systems.

Research group home page: http://physics.aalto.fi/active

Recent highlights:

Vuckovac et al., Viscosity-enhanced droplet motion in sealed superhydrophobic capillaries (Science Advances 2020, https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/42/eaba5...)

Latest preprints:

Raju et al., Structural diversity in electrohydrodynamically driven active and organized liquids (2020, ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10977)

Cherian at al., Electroferrofluids with non-equilibrium voltage-controlled magnetism, interfaces, and patterns (2020, ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12563)

Rigoni et al., Ferrofluidic aqueous two-phase system with ultralow interfacial tension, instabilities and pattern formation (2020, ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13945)

Full list of publications: Google scholar