ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Geometry-driven self-organisation in active living matter
Living materials process information through their physical degrees of freedom, enabling autonomous functions beyond the capabilities of electronic systems. For example, a migrating cell uses its own shape dynamics to navigate through complex environments and decide which way to go. Yet, the principles underlying such physical information processing have not been identified due to the complexity inherent to problems involving fluctuating dynamic boundaries, and the need for a multidisciplinary approach to link theory with experiments. Building on recent scientific and methodological advances from my group, I propose to investigate how soft active materials perform computations and…
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