Research interests

Viscoelastic flow instabilities
- Purely elastic instabilities and turbulence in polymer solutions
- Elasto-inertial turbulence and drag reduction
- Instabilities in shear-banded flows of worm-like micelles
- Stress-singularities in extensional flows
Locomotion of microorganisms
- Swimming of individual organisms in water and complex fluids
- Collective motion in microswimmer suspensions
- Enhanced diffusion of tracers
Transition to turbulence
- Exact coherent states in transitional flows
- Directed percolation transition scenario
- Low-dimensional modelling of the transition
Biophysics and Active matter
- Pattern formation in mixtures of microtubules and molecular motors
- Bulk rheology and microrheology of active fluids
- Phase separation in active particle suspensions
- Chromosome extrusion
Soft matter
- Micro-objects in flows of Newtonian and complex fluids
- Discontinuous shear-thinning
- Reversible plasticity in foams and emulsions
- Microphase separation in block copolymers under shear
- Particle-based simulation methods of soft matter