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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

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.

March 2025: Tanumoy Dhar and Prof. Saintillan presented at the APS Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, CA.

March 2025: The paper "Self-organized dynamics of a viscous drop with interfacial nematic activity" by Firouznia and Saintillan appeared as a Letter in Physical Review Research. Click here to download the article.

February 2025: The paper "The 2025 motile active matter roadmap" by Gompper et al. appeared in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. Prof. Saintillan contributed an invited perspective on "Manipulation and assembly of passive objects by active particles". Click here to download the article.

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