We’re happy to welcome two new postdoc, who joined our group in the last weeks.

Guido Kusters 🇳🇱 obtained his PhD degree from Eindhoven University of Technology, where he worked with Cees Storm on modeling the (non-)equilibrium behavior of various soft and responsive materials. During this time he was also a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford and Harvard University, where he explored excursions to active matter and nanocomposite self-assembly, respectively. In our group, he will study the spatiotemporal organization of biomolecular condensates.

Filipe Thewes 🇧🇷 obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen, where he worked with Peter Sollich on the interplay between kinetic timescales and thermodynamic driving forces in multi-component mixtures. Currently, he’s interested in the theoretical description of multi-component systems in biological contexts, where phase separation is combined with other biochemical/physical processes to achieve functionality. He wants to learn how to control structure formation in biological condensates.

Welcome aboard!