We are a theoretical biophysics group that has the good fortune to be part of a large department housing both experimentalists and theorists, the Department of Bionanoscience at the TU Delft. Our central research question is how many actors act together in the complex environment of living systems. We study systems ranging from single molecules such as proteins and molecular motors, all the way up to cells in tissues and colonies of bacteria. In particular, we are currently working on the effects of membrane mediated interactions, mechanical interactions between cells in developing embryos, and collective dynamics of finite-size, self-propelled particles. On all these, we cultivate active collaborations with theoretical and experimental groups, both inside and outside our own department.




Open textbook on Mechanics and Relativity available at textbooks.open.tudelft.nl.

Open interactive textbook Interaction to particle and continuum mechanics and the Jupyter books demo available at interactivetextbooks.tudelft.nl.

Upcoming events

November 8: Timon Idema will present at the Mak Kac seminar in Utrecht.

November 12: Timon Idema will present at the SURF education days in The Hague.

January 10: Rachel Los will defend her PhD thesis `Play nice or pay the price' at 15:00.


News

Victor, Mark, Luuc and Mijke successfully defended their BEP theses.

Rachel's work on competition in developing bacterial colonies (collaboration with van Tatenhove-Pel lab) available on bioRxiv/2024.05.13.593921

Juan and Rachel's work on biofilm formation with tunable cell-cell adhesions (collaboration with Wegner group) published in Advanced Science.