The Team
Laura Rodriguez Arriaga
Lab Director
Laura Rodriguez Arriaga is a"Ramon y Cajal" investigator and co-PI of the SoftPhys lab. Dr. Arriaga specializes in microfluidic technologies, which she incorporated from her Post-Doc at the Weitz lab at Harvard University.
Juan Luis Aragones Gomez
Lab director
Juan Luis Aragones Gomez is a "Ramon y Cajal" investigator and co-PI of the SoftPhys lab. Dr. Aragones specializes in Lattice-Boltzmann simulations and locomotion in complex environments.
Pablo Llombart Gonzalez
Post-Doc
Pablo joined the group in 2020 as a "Juan de la Cierva" postdoctoral fellow. Pablo focuses on the study of equilibrium and non-equilibrium complex systems. He is currently developing models based on hydrodynamic interactions to study the behavior of active colloidal systems such as membrane-embedded proteins or synthetic cell models.
Berta Tinao Nieto
PhD student
Berta joined the group in 2018 as a PhD student. Berta focuses on using microfluidic techniques to investigate the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of novel systems such as phase-separated polymer systems and hydrogels.
Paula Magrinya Aguilo
PhD student
Paula joined the group in 2020 as a PhD student. Her main focus is studying how cells move. Specifically, the role of friction in cell motion.
Richard Andrés Campusano
PhD student
Richard Joined the group in 2019. His main focus is studying the behavior of bacteria in complex media.
Galor Geva
PhD student
Galor arrived at the group in november of 2021 following an MSc at Tel Aviv University, Where he worked on fundamental statistical mechanics. Galor's work mainly focuses on studying active colloidal transport.
Arin Escobar
PhD student
Arin joined the group in late 2022 as a PhD student. Her main focus is to study the behaviour of active colloids in different obstacle arrangements through simulations and theoretical calculations.