I am a professor of Experimental Soft Matter Physics at the University of Vienna (Austria), where I arrived in March 2021 from the University of Milan (Italy).
My research group, part of the Computational and Soft Matter Physics Unit, uses light to perform broadly focused investigations on the structure, the dynamics and the working processes involving soft and biological materials.
We rely on collaborations with international partners, both in academia and industry, and we are always happy to make new friends!
Interests
- Soft matter physics
- Living matter
- Cell biophysics
- Quantitative microscopy
Education
PhD in Physics, 2004
University of Milan
MSc in Physics, 2001
University of Milan
BSc in Physics, 1997
University of Milan
Latest
- 2nd Short Course - FORgreensoft
- Design and implementation of a strain- and stress-controlled linear rheometer for advanced rheomicroscopy applications.
- Is the Cellular Jamming Universal?
- Yielding under the microscope: a multi-scale perspective on brittle and ductile behaviors in oscillatory shear
- Dynamics of anisotropic colloidal systems: What to choose, DLS, DDM or XPCS?
- Soft matter roadmap
- Protein Sizing with Differential Dynamic Microscopy
- Probing Out-of-Equilibrium Soft Matter
- Introduction to viscoelasticity and plasticity, and their relation to the underlying microscopic dynamics in soft matter systems
- Tissue fluidification promotes a cGAS–STING cytosolic DNA response in invasive breast cancer
- Diffusion in liquid mixtures
- Quantitative rheo-microscopy of soft matter
- Publisher Correction: Unjamming overcomes kinetic and proliferation arrest in terminally differentiated cells and promotes collective motility of carcinoma
- Echo speckle imaging of dynamic processes in soft materials
- Reciprocal Space Study of Brownian Yet Non-Gaussian Diffusion of Small Tracers in a Hard-Sphere Glass
- Non-invasive measurement of nuclear relative stiffness from quantitative analysis of microscopy data
- Multiscale heterogeneous dynamics in two-dimensional glassy colloids
- Bistability of Dielectrically Anisotropic Nematic Crystals and the Adaptation of Endothelial Collectives to Stress Fields
- Performance indicators in higher education quality management of learning and teaching: lessons from a benchlearning exercise of six European universities
- Differential dynamic microscopy for the characterization of polymer systems
- Hecw controls oogenesis and neuronal homeostasis by promoting the liquid state of ribonucleoprotein particles
- Deformation profiles and microscopic dynamics of complex fluids during oscillatory shear experiments
- Probing roto-translational diffusion of small anisotropic colloidal particles with a bright-field microscope
- Disentangling collective motion and local rearrangements in 2D and 3D cell assemblies
- Multiple dynamic regimes in a coarsening foam
- Giant Fluctuations Induced by Thermal Diffusion in Complex Liquids
- Emergence of Multiscale Dynamics in Colloidal Gels
- MicroMotility: State of the art, recent accomplishments and perspectives on the mathematical modeling of bio-motility at microscopic scales
- Functional transcription promoters at DNA double-strand breaks mediate RNA-driven phase separation of damage-response factors
- European Space Agency experiments on thermodiffusion of fluid mixtures in space
- Tracking-Free Determination of Single-Cell Displacements and Division Rates in Confluent Monolayers
- Flocking transitions in confluent tissues
- Quantitative optical microscopy of colloids: The legacy of Jean Perrin
- Differential dynamic microscopy microrheology of soft materials: A tracking-free determination of the frequency-dependent loss and storage moduli
- Dark field differential dynamic microscopy enables accurate characterization of the roto-translational dynamics of bacteria and colloidal clusters
- Active diffusion and advection in Drosophila oocytes result from the interplay of actin and microtubules
- Image windowing mitigates edge effects in Differential Dynamic Microscopy
- Perspective: Differential dynamic microscopy extracts multi-scale activity in complex fluids and biological systems
- Giant fluctuations and structural effects in a flocking epithelium
- Endocytic reawakening of motility in jammed epithelia
- The NEUF-DIX space project - Non-EquilibriUm Fluctuations during DIffusion in compleX liquids
- The NEUF-DIX space project - Non-EquilibriUm Fluctuations during DIffusion in compleX liquids
- Equilibrium and non-equilibrium concentration fluctuations in a critical binary mixture
- Re-entrant DNA gels
- Structure and dynamics of concentration fluctuations in a non-equilibrium dense colloidal suspension
- Shadowgraph Analysis of Non-equilibrium Fluctuations for Measuring Transport Properties in Microgravity in the GRADFLEX Experiment
- Shadowgraph Analysis of Non-equilibrium Fluctuations for Measuring Transport Properties in Microgravity in the GRADFLEX Experiment
- Simultaneous characterization of rotational and translational diffusion of optically anisotropic particles by optical microscopy
- Dynamic scaling for the growth of non-equilibrium fluctuations during thermophoretic diffusion in microgravity
- Multi-spot, label-free immunoassay on reflectionless glass
- Equilibrium gels of trivalent DNA-nanostars: Effect of the ionic strength on the dynamics
- Equilibrium gels of low-valence DNA nanostars: a colloidal model for strong glass formers
- Digital Fourier microscopy for soft matter dynamics
- A fast and simple label-free immunoassay based on a smartphone
- Viscoelasticity of nematic liquid crystals at a glance
- GRADFLEX: The Microgravity Experiment for Gradient...
- Phase behavior and critical activated dynamics of limited-valence DNA nanostars
- Multispot, label-free biodetection at a phantom plastic–water interface
- Bistability of nematic liquid crystals confined in 3D scaffold produced by two-photon polymerization
- Nematic Liquid Crystals Embedded in Cubic Microlattices: Memory Effects and Bistable Pixels
- How Archer Fish Achieve a Powerful Impact: Hydrodynamic Instability of a Pulsed Jet in Toxotes jaculatrix
- Characterizing Concentrated, Multiply Scattering, and Actively Driven Fluorescent Systems with Confocal Differential Dynamic Microscopy
- Giant thermophoresis of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles
- Two-Dimensional X-Ray Beam Phase Sensing
- Effect of configuration of the microchannels fabricated by femtosecond laser micromachining on topological defects in confined liquid crystals
- Liquid crystal self-assembly of random-sequence DNA oligomers
- Topological defects of nematic liquid crystals confined in porous networks
- Thermal Fluctuations in a Layer of Liquid Subjected to Temperature Gradients with and without the Influence of Gravity
- Fractal fronts of diffusion in microgravity
- Right-handed double-helix ultrashort DNA yields chiral nematic phases with both right- and left-handed director twist
- Exploring soft matter with x-rays: from the discovery of the DNA structure to the challenges of free electron lasers
- Scattering information obtained by optical microscopy: Differential dynamic microscopy and beyond
- Near-field scattering techniques: Novel instrumentation and results from time and spatially resolved investigations of soft matter systems
- Bistable Heat Transfer in a Nanofluid
- Thermophoretic Convection Of Silica Nanoparticles
- Mutual Voronoi Tessellation in Spoke Pattern Convection
- Differential Dynamic Microscopy: Probing Wave Vector Dependent Dynamics with a Microscope
- Differential Dynamic Microscopy: Probing Wave Vector Dependent Dynamics with a Microscope
- Correlations of light in the deep Fresnel region: An extended Van Cittert and Zernike theorem
- Fluctuations in Diffusion Processes in Microgravity
- Gradient-driven fluctuations experiment: fluid fluctuations in microgravity
- Scaling Behavior for the Onset of Convection in a Colloidal Suspension
- Fast-onset Soret-driven convection in a colloidal suspension heated from above
- Soret driven convection in a colloidal solution heated from above at very large solutal Rayleigh number