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Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems: Dresden, Saxony, DE

2021-10 to present | Max Planck Research Group Leader (Biological Physics)
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Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2018-03 to 2021-08 | Postdoctoral research associate (Department of Physics)
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Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2013-11 to 2018-02 | PhD student (Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada)
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Institut Curie: Paris, Île-de-France, FR

2016-05-02 to 2016-07-29 | Visiting PhD student (Département de Physicochimie du Vivant)
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Institut Curie: Paris, Île-de-France, FR

2015-09-01 to 2015-11-28 | Visiting PhD student (Département de Physicochimie du Vivant)
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2013-07 to 2013-10 | Visiting student (Department of Chemistry)
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Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2012-10 to 2013-07 | Student researcher (Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2013-11 to 2018-02 | PhD in Physics (Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada)
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Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2012-09 to 2013-09 | Master in Biophysics
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Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2007-09 to 2012-06 | Degree in Physics
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Funding (5)

Self-organization of bacterial biofilms as active matter

2018-05 to 2021-05 | Grant
Human Frontier Science Program (Strasbourg, FR)
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LT000475/2018-C
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Active hydrodynamics of epithelial tissues

2016-05 to 2016-07 | Grant
Company of Biologists (Cambridge, GB)
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DEVTF-151206
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Active hydrodynamics of epithelial tissues

2016-05 to 2016-07 | Grant
Fundació Universitària Agustí Pedro i Pons (Barcelona, ES)
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Active hydrodynamics of epithelial tissues

2015-09 to 2015-11 | Grant
EMBO (Heidelberg, DE)
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ASTF 365 - 2015
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Collective phenomena in soft active matter

2013-11 to 2017-11 | Grant
Fundació La Caixa (Barcelona, Catalunya, ES)
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Works (33)

Local polar order controls mechanical stress and triggers layer formation in Myxococcus xanthus colonies

Nature Communications
2025-01-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55806-6
Contributors: Endao Han; Chenyi Fei; Ricard Alert; Katherine Copenhagen; Matthias D. Koch; Ned S. Wingreen; Joshua W. Shaevitz
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Buckling by disordered growth

Physical Review E
2024-11-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.110.054405
Contributors: Rahul G. Ramachandran; Ricard Alert; Pierre A. Haas
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Optogenetic generation of leader cells reveals a force–velocity relation for collective cell migration

Nature Physics
2024-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02600-2
Contributors: Leone Rossetti; Steffen Grosser; Juan Francisco Abenza; Léo Valon; Pere Roca-Cusachs; Ricard Alert; Xavier Trepat
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Flocking by Turning Away

Physical Review X
2024-07-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.14.031008
Contributors: Suchismita Das; Matteo Ciarchi; Ziqi Zhou; Jing Yan; Jie Zhang; Ricard Alert
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Capillary interactions drive the self-organization of bacterial colonies

2024-06-02 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.28.596252
Contributors: Matthew E. Black; Chenyi Fei; Ricard Alert; Ned S. Wingreen; Joshua W. Shaevitz
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How to bridge the gap between theory and experiments in biological physics

Nature Physics
2023-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02276-0
Contributors: Xavier Trepat; Ricard Alert
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Curvature induces active velocity waves in rotating spherical tissues

Nature Communications
2023-03-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37054-2
Contributors: Tom Brandstätter; David B. Brückner; Yu Long Han; Ricard Alert; Ming Guo; Chase P. Broedersz
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Stiffness-dependent active wetting enables optimal collective cell durotaxis

Nature Physics
2022-12-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01835-1
Contributors: Macià Esteve Pallarès; Irina Pi-Jaumà; Isabela Corina Fortunato; Valeria Grazu; Manuel Gómez-González; Pere Roca-Cusachs; Jesus M. de la Fuente; Ricard Alert; Raimon Sunyer; Jaume Casademunt et al.
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Self-assembly of tessellated tissue sheets by expansion and collision

Nature Communications
2022-07-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31459-1
Contributors: Matthew A. Heinrich; Ricard Alert; Abraham E. Wolf; Andrej Košmrlj; Daniel J. Cohen
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Fingering instability of active nematic droplets

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
2022-06-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ac6c61
Contributors: Ricard Alert
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Cellular Sensing Governs the Stability of Chemotactic Fronts

Physical Review Letters
2022-04-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.148101
Contributors: Ricard Alert; Alejandro Martínez-Calvo; Sujit S. Datta
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Active Turbulence

Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
2022-03-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-082321-035957
Part of ISSN: 1947-5454
Part of ISSN: 1947-5462
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Chemotactic smoothing of collective migration

eLife
2022-03-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71226
Contributors: Tapomoy Bhattacharjee; Daniel B Amchin; Ricard Alert; Jenna Anne Ott; Sujit Sankar Datta
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Collective durotaxis of cohesive cell clusters on a stiffness gradient

The European Physical Journal E
2022-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-021-00150-6
Contributors: Irina Pi-Jaumà; Ricard Alert; Jaume Casademunt
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Scaling Regimes of Active Turbulence with External Dissipation

Physical Review X
2021-09-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031065
Contributors: Berta Martínez-Prat; Ricard Alert; Fanlong Meng; Jordi Ignés-Mullol; Jean-François Joanny; Jaume Casademunt; Ramin Golestanian; Francesc Sagués
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Active phase separation by turning towards regions of higher density

Nature Physics
2021-08-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01238-8
Contributors: Jie Zhang; Ricard Alert; Jing Yan; Ned S. Wingreen; Steve Granick
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Morphogenesis and cell ordering in confined bacterial biofilms

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021-08-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2107107118
Contributors: Qiuting Zhang; Jian Li; Japinder Nijjer; Haoran Lu; Mrityunjay Kothari; Ricard Alert; Tal Cohen; Jing Yan
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Self-assembly of tessellated tissue sheets by growth and collision

2021-05-07 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.06.442983
Contributors: Matthew A. Heinrich; Ricard Alert; Abraham E. Wolf; Andrej Košmrlj; Daniel J. Cohen
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Topological defects promote layer formation in Myxococcus xanthus colonies

Nature Physics
2021-02-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01056-4
Contributors: Katherine Copenhagen; Ricard Alert; Ned S. Wingreen; Joshua W. Shaevitz
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Size-dependent patterns of cell proliferation and migration in freely-expanding epithelia

eLife
2020-08-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.58945
Contributors: Matthew A Heinrich; Ricard Alert; Julienne M LaChance; Tom J Zajdel; Andrej Košmrlj; Daniel J Cohen
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Universal scaling of active nematic turbulence

Nature Physics
2020-06-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-0854-4
Contributors: Ricard Alert; Jean-François Joanny; Jaume Casademunt
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Nonuniform growth and surface friction determine bacterial biofilm morphology on soft substrates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-04-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919607117
Contributors: Chenyi Fei; Sheng Mao; Jing Yan; Ricard Alert; Howard A. Stone; Bonnie L. Bassler; Ned S. Wingreen; Andrej Košmrlj
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Physical Models of Collective Cell Migration

Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
2019-09-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013516
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Active Fingering Instability in Tissue Spreading

Physical Review Letters
2019-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.088104
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Active wetting of epithelial tissues

Nature Physics
2019-01-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-018-0279-5
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Role of Substrate Stiffness in Tissue Spreading: Wetting Transition and Tissue Durotaxis

Langmuir
2018-10-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02037
Part of ISSN: 0743-7463
Part of ISSN: 1520-5827
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Mixed-order phase transition in a colloidal crystal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-12-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712584114
Contributors: Ricard Alert; Pietro Tierno; Jaume Casademunt
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Fluidization and Active Thinning by Molecular Kinetics in Active Gels

Physical Review Letters
2017-02-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.088002
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Emergent structures and dynamics of cell colonies by contact inhibition of locomotion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2016-12-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1521151113
Contributors: Bart Smeets; Ricard Alert; Jiří Pešek; Ignacio Pagonabarraga; Herman Ramon; Romaric Vincent
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Formation of metastable phases by spinodal decomposition

Nature Communications
2016-10-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13067
Contributors: Ricard Alert; Pietro Tierno; Jaume Casademunt
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Bleb Nucleation through Membrane Peeling

Physical Review Letters
2016-02-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.068101
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Model for Probing Membrane-Cortex Adhesion by Micropipette Aspiration and Fluctuation Spectroscopy

Biophysical Journal
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.02.027
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WOS:000353344400007
Contributors: Alert, Ricard; Casademunt, Jaume; Brugues, Jan; Sens, Pierre
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Landscape-Inversion Phase Transition in Dipolar Colloids: Tuning the Structure and Dynamics of 2D Crystals

Physical Review Letters
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.198301
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WOS:000344496600014
Contributors: Alert, Ricard; Casademunt, Jaume; Tierno, Pietro
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Peer review (20 reviews for 13 publications/grants)

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Review activity for Nature physics (4)
Review activity for Newton. (1)
Review activity for Physical review letters. (2)
Review activity for PLoS computational biology. (1)
Review activity for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. (1)
Review activity for Soft matter. (2)
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