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, the interplay between membranes and the cytoskeleton during cellular growth and division, the development of bacterial colonies and epithelial tissues, 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.

Open position

We have an opening for a PhD student working on the interaction between macromolecules and membrane vesicles (analytical/simulation project in collaboration with experimentalists). You can find the vacancy and apply through the TU Delft career website.


Upcoming events

January 10: Former postdoc Felix Frey will visit and give a talk at 11:00.

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

January 23: Timon Idema will present at the Ooogst festival on open interactive textbooks.


News

We welcome new PhD student Haochun Sun.

We welcome new BSc student Michiel Peeters.

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.