General info

Our research interest:

• Fluid dynamics;
• Dynamics of soft and living matter;
• Topology and geometry in biology;
• Growth processes, emergence of shapes and patterns;
• Physics of geological processes;
• Reactive flow, dissolution processes in porous and fractured rock, karst formation;
• Nonequilibrium statistical physics.

Staff

• Piotr Szymczak
• Andrzej Radliński
• Max Cooper
• Silvana Magni (Ph.D. student)
• Rishabh Prakash Sharma (Ph.D. student)

Recent results and publications

 

 

 

 

 

Recent publications

• M. Gruziel, K. Thyagarajan, G. Dietler, A. Stasiak, M.L. Ekiel-Jeżewska, P. Szymczak, Periodic motion of sedimenting flexible knots, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2018) in print
• P. Szymczak, Periodic forces trigger knot untying during translocation of knotted proteins, Sci. Rep. 6 (2016) 21702
• Y. Cohen, O. Devauchelle, H.F. Seybold, R.S. Yi, P. Szymczak, D. Rothman, Path selection in the growth of rivers, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112 (2015) 14132-14137