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Group Photo Current members of the Saintillan Research Group (December 2024): David Saintillan, Tanumoy Dhar, Dalia Barragan, Nick Broussinos, Cuncheng Zhu, Yuchen Hou, Yuzhu Chen.

Recent News

July 2025: The paper "Electrohydrodynamic drift of a drop away from an insulating wall" by Sen, Firouznia, Koch, Saintillan and Vlahovska appeared in Physical Review Fluids. Click here to download the article. The paper was also featured on the cover of the April 2025 volume.

June 2025: Congratulations to Yuchen Hou for successfully defending his M.S. thesis entitled: "Reinforcement learning-based control of topological defects in 2D active nematics"!

April 2025: Congratulations to Tanumoy Dhar for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled: "Theoretical and computational study of active-passive particle interactions"!

April 2025: The paper "Active nematics fluids on Riemannian two-manifolds" by Zhu, Saintillan and Chern appeared in Proceegings of the Royal Society A. Click here to download the article. The paper was also featured on the cover of the April 2025 volume.

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