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.

Our current focus is on the deformation and subsequent scission of membranes during cellular growth and division, as part of the BaSyC/EVOLF project.

Other topics we are interested in inlcude 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 TU Delft OPEN textbooks.

Open interactive textbooks Introduction to Quantum Mechanics and Interaction to particle and continuum mechanics and the Jupyter books demo available at TU Delft OPEN interactive textbooks.