Editors for Physics of Living Systems
Senior editors
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Felix Campelo
Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Felix Campelo is a researcher specializing in membrane biophysics, cell biology, and advanced fluorescence microscopy tools to understand intracellular organization and dynamics. He did his PhD research in theoretical biophysics at the University of Barcelona and Tel Aviv University, developing computational and theoretical methods to study membrane shape and dynamics. In his postdoc at the Malhotra lab (CRG-Center for Genomic Regulation), he shifted to experimental cell biology and biochemistry to explore mechanisms of intracellular trafficking and the cooperation between lipids and proteins in organizing Golgi membranes.
During his independent career, first at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, and since 2025 at the Medicine and Life Sciences Department at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Felix and his interdisciplinary lab focus on organelle morphology and dynamics, with a particular interest in intracellular membrane trafficking in the early secretory pathway. They employ advanced microscopy techniques, molecular and cell biology tools, and theoretical biophysics to address fundamental topics in cell biology.
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Cell Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- membrane mechanics
- membrane curvature
- intracellular trafficking
- membrane organization
- membrane contact sites
- Golgi complex
- endoplasmic reticulum exit sites
- super-resolution microscopy
- single-molecule microscopy
- Experimental organism
- human
- S. cerevisiae
- Competing interests statement
- Dr Campelo receives funding from Government of Spain, Fundació Privada Cellex, Fundació Privada Mir-Puig, and Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Aleksandra Walczak
Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Aleksandra Walczak received her PhD in physics at UCSD working on models of stochastic gene expression. After a graduate fellowship at KITP, she was a Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Fellow, focusing on applying information theory to signal processing in small gene regulatory networks. Currently she is a CNRS researcher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, interested in a variety of problems in the physics of living systems.
She actively works on development, collective behavior of bird flocks and statistical descriptions of the immune system.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biophysics
- quantitative immunology
- probabilistic data analysis
- theoretical models
- development
- collective behaviour
- Competing interests statement
- Aleksandra Walczak is the recipient of a CNRS-Chicago Cooperation Grant, a FACCTS CNRS-Chicago Cooperation Grant, an IRN CNRS Predictability, Adaptability Evolution network collaboration grant, a CNRS-MIT Cooperation Grant, a q-Life Grant "The physics of repair and silencing foci?, an ERC Proof of Concept Grant "Automated evaluation and correction of generation bias in immune receptor repertoires", a DFG CRC "Predictability in evolution", an ERC International Training Network QuanTII grant, and an ERC Consolidator Grant "Statistical physics of immune-viral co-evolution”.
Reviewing editors
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Alaa A Ahmed
University of Colorado Boulder, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biomechanics
- motor control
- motor learning
- decision making
- neuroeconomics
- computational neuroscience
- energetics
- Experimental organism
- human
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Toby W Allen
RMIT University, Australia
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- computational biophysics
- molecular dynamics
- free-energy calculations
- ion channels
- ion permeation
- membranes
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Ariel Amir
Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- mathematical modeling
- stochastic processes
- microbial growth
- cell size control
- gene expression
- microbial evolution
- phenotypic variability
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Nathalie Q Balaban
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- self-replicating matter
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Patricia Bassereau
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- physics of cells
- membrane biophysics
- mechanobiology
- intracellular traffic
- endocytosis
- adhesion
- cellular protrusions
- biomimetic membranes
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Kurt Beam
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle
- voltage-gated calcium channels
- calcium release channels
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Gordon Berman
Emory University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- animal behavior
- theoretical biophysics
- computational neuroscience
- computational ethology
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
- rat
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Anne-Florence Bitbol
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne , Switzerland
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- biophysics
- theory and modeling
- protein sequence data
- models of evolution
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Jan Brugués
TU Dresden, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- microtubule cytoskeleton
- cell division
- quantitative microscopy
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Shaon Chakrabarti
National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- mathematical oncology
- circadian rhythms
- cell fate decisions
- machine learning
- biophysical modelling
- quantitative imaging
- single-cell methods
- high-throughput technologies
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Irene Giardina
Università Sapienza, Italy
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- active living matter
- collective behavior in groups (physicist perspective)s
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Martin Graña
Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- protein 3D structure
- structural bioinformatics
- structure/function relationships
- evolution
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Ricardo Henriques
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- super resolution microscopy
- image analysis
- machine learning
- cell signalling
- viral infection
- single-molecule imaging
- computational biology
- open source software
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
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Yaroslav Ispolatov
Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- evolution
- diversification
- adaptive dynamics
- ecology
- systems biology
- CRISPR
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Sangjin Kim
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- RNA biology
- transcription
- translation
- diffusion
- chromosome dynamics
- single molecule imaging and tracking
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
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Megan C King
Yale School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- nuclear envelope
- nuclear lamins
- LINC complex
- nuclear mechanics
- DNA repair
- genome organisation
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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David M Kramer
Michigan State University, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Plant Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- photosynthesis
- bioenergetics
- electron and proton transfer
- computation
- phenotyping
- phenomics
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Karsten Kruse
University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- cell migration
- cell signalling
- theoretical biology
- molecular evolution
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Aaron Kuan
Yale School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- connectomics
- cortex
- neural circuits
- electron microscopy
- x-ray imaging
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Melike Lakadamyali
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- super resolution microscopy
- imaging
- image analysis
- chromatin structure
- genome organisation
- organelle trafficking
- motor proteins
- microtubule cytoskeleton
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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David Lentink
University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- animal locomotion
- comparative biomechanics
- animal navigation
- movement ecology
- evolutionary biology
- biofluids
- biophysics
- bioinspired robotics
- bioinspiration & biomimetics
- Experimental organism
- birds
- insects
- bats
- plant seeds
- fish
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Pascal Martin
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- active mechanical processes
- hair cells of the inner ear
- molecular motors and the cytoskeleton
- oscillations
- mechanosensitivity
- frequency selectivity
- in vitro reconstituted motor systems
- Experimental organism
- rat
- Xenopus
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Alphee Michelot
Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- cytoskeleton
- actin dynamics
- motility
- endocytosis
- cytokinesis
- actin mechanics
- energy conversion
- force transduction
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Babak Momeni
Boston College, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- microbial communities
- community ecology
- mathematical modelling
- computational biology
- applied microbiology
- bioremediation
- mycotoxins
- nasal microbiota
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Arvind Murugan
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biological learning and adaptation in changing environments
- learned behavious in materials
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Marcos Nahmad
Centre for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- growth control
- drosophila genetics
- developmental patterning
- mathematical modelling
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Richard A Neher
University of Basel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- population genetics
- evolution of RNA viruses
- bioinformatics
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Armita Nourmohammad
University of Washington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- population genetics
- computational immunology
- adaptive immunity
- statistical physics
- deep mutational scanning
- information theory
- statistical inference
- gene expression evolution
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- viruses
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Catherine Proenza
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- electrophysiology
- cardiac pacemaking
- ion channels
- molecular biophysics
- HCN channels
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Benjamin L Prosser
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- cardiac function
- muscle
- cardiomyocytes
- mechanotransduction
- cytoskeleton
- microtubules
- sarcomere
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Audrey Sederberg
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- theoretical biophysics
- computational neuroscience
- neural dynamics
- neural decoding
- criticality
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Agnese Seminara
Université Côte d'Azur, France
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biomechanics of bacterial biofilm growth
- violent discharge
- atmospheric dispersal of fungal spores
- computational navigation
- Experimental organism
- B. subtilis
- mouse
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Pierre Sens
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- statistical physics
- soft matter
- membrane
- cell mechanics
- cell motility
- organelles
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Timothy J Stasevich
Colorado State University, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- gene expression
- transcription
- translation
- RNA biology
- chromatin dynamics
- genome organization
- fluorescence microscopy
- single molecule imaging
- intrabodies
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Daniel Y Takahashi
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- social interaction
- vocal learning
- neurophysiology
- computational modeling
- ontogeny of behavior
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Shashi Thutupalli
National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- physics of life
- active matter
- physical bioenergetics
- origin of life
- self-organization
- collective behavior
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John C Tuthill
University of Washington, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- sensory coding
- motor control
- locomotion
- animal behavior
- proprioception
- weird insects
- Experimental organism
- drosophila
- chionea
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Jie Xiao
Johns Hopkins University, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- single molecule biophysics
- microbiology
- cell division
- cell wall
- gene expression
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
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Bin Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- computational biophysics
- molecular dynamics
- chromatin organization
- biomolecular condensates
- genome folding
- coarse graining
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Moussa Zouache
University of Utah, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Medicine
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- visual neuroscience
- population genetics
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- biology of aging
- mathematical modelling
- clinical research
