Nonlinear Dynamics and Physics of Complex Systems                                                       

Congratulations Sreejith, a PhD student in our group, for receiving the 2025-2026 Carol & George Lattimer Award for Graduate Academic Excellence. 

Congratulations Alex Plum, a Ph.D. student in our group, for being selected for the KITP summer school on Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals

Mattia Serra receives the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics

Congratulations Alex, for being selected to participate in the prestigious 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting. 

Mattia Serra receives the IUPAP Interdisciplinary Early Career Science Prize

Mattia Serra receives the NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35) 

Mattia Serra receives the NSF CAREER Award

UC Active Matter Hub

Mattia Serra receives the HFSP Early Career Research Award

Congratulations Sreejith, for being selected to participate in the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting

Mattia Serra is selected as an Outreach Fellow from the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Our paper A mechanochemical model recapitulates distinct vertebrate gastrulation modes just appeared in Science Advances

Congratulations Sreejith, a third-year Ph.D. student in our group, for being selected for the KITP summer school on Dynamics of Self-Organization in Animal and Plant Development

Our paper Defect-mediated dynamics of coherent structures in active nematics just appeared in Nature Physics

Mattia Serra receives the Hellman Fellowship in Physics

Congratulations Alex, a first-year Ph.D. student in our group, for receiving the NIH-sponsored QBio fellowship.

Congratulations Guillermo for receiving the Beddington Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis in developmental biology

Our work on morphodynamics featured on SIAM NEWS

AMS creates a Mathematical Moment on our research

Scientific American covers our search and rescue technique

BBC Science Focus covers our search and rescue technique

NSF creates short film on our new search and rescue technique

Search and rescue at sea aided by hidden flow structures, just appeared in Nature Communications

Our paper Dynamic morphoskeletons in development, just came out in PNAS

Organizing Chaos - check the video and story about my research, my path, and more

Mattia Serra receives the Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship

Our Polar Vortex work on Forbes

Mattia Serra receives the Schmidt Science Fellowship

Mattia Serra receives the ETH Medal Award for outstanding Doctoral Thesis

Our work on the Cover Image Proc. Royal Soc A