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Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
University of California, San Diego
Serra Group - Nonlinear Dynamics and Mathematical Modeling of complex systems
Mattia Serra
PhD and Postdoc positions available!
EMAIL: mserra{at}ucsd.edu
Imola, 7635.
Dec 2023
Our paper A mechanochemical model recapitulates distinct vertebrate gastrulation modes just appeared in Science Advances
May 2023
Our paper Defect-mediated dynamics of coherent structures in active nematics just appeared in Nature Physics
June 2022
Congratulations Guillermo for receiving the Beddington Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis in developmental biology
wonderful collaboration!
July 2022
Congratulations Alex, a first-year Ph.D. student in our group, for receiving the NIH-sponsored QBio fellowship.
Alex will develop mathematical methods and models for predicting multicellular self-organization.
May 2020
Our paper Dynamic morphoskeletons in development just came out in PNAS
paper, featured on Harvard SEAS News
Dec 2019
Organizing Chaos - check the video and story about my research
link, Thanks to the Schmidt Science Fellows team for making this!
April 2018
Schmidt Science Fellowship
(in partnership with the Rhodes Trust) More about the fellowship
Press releases: PR Newswire, Forbes
March 2017
Cover Image Proc. Royal Soc A
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