Ioannis Hadjifrangiskou

I am a final year DPhil student in Prof. Julia M. Yeomans' group, studying active matter. My work aim to explain the collective dynamics of deformable particles. Many active matter systems in biology are made up of cells that can be greatly deformed when subjected to shear flows. These shape changes couple back to their dynamics in a non-linear way. I use ideas from continuum hydrodynamics, statistical physics and non-linear dynamical system theories to study their behaviour.