Dr. NIRVANA CABALLERO
Department of Quantum Matter Physics
Faculty of Science
University of Geneva
Switzerland
May, 2022
University of Geneva
Prize
Tremplin Laureate
I’m honored for receiving this award. Extremely grateful to the University of Geneva for this support and recognition!
May, 2022
Arxiv
Preprint
New!
The physical principles underlying pattern formation in biological cellular membranes are still not fully understood. To identify the minimal physical ingredients that a cellular membrane can use to regulate its patterns, we model it as a surface. We discover that only by considering matter exchange between this surface and its bulk environment, a complex patterned composition emerges. We show that typical domain length scales depend on the matter exchange rates. Bio-inspired, with applications well beyond it. An amazing collaboration between myself, Karsten Kruse, and Thierry Giamarchi.
April, 2022
London, UK
Committee Meeting
IOP Biological Physics
First in person committee meeting for some of us. It was great to see you!!!
April 26th, 2022
Edinburgh, UK
Invited lecture
Physics of Life Summer School 2022
Delighted to visit the University of Edinburgh and the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, invited to talk about how I’m using statistical mechanics tools to decode interactions in collective cell migration at the Physics of Life Summer School!
April 25th, 2022
American Physical Society
New paper
Physical Review E
My latest accepted paper is now online! We show why an interface at equilibrium can display large roughness exponents
April 22th, 2022
University of Zurich
Talk
Annual Meeting Life Sciences Switzerland
Delighted to discuss our recently developed hydrodynamic theory with the Life Sciences Swiss community!
March 3rd, 2022
Paris
Invited seminar
Forum de Physique Statistique à l'École Normale Supérieure
With great pleasure (and a lot of questions :)), I presented my work "From bulk descriptions to emergent interfaces" at ENS Paris. Such an exciting visit!.
December 20th, 2021
Institute of Physics
IOP Biological Physics Committee
Tom Duke Prize for Prof. Pietro Cicuta (Cambridge)
With great pleasure, we awarded Prof. Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge) the Tom Duke biannual prize. He was chosen as an ambassador to represent the importance of physics in addressing biological questions. Congratulations Pietro!
December 14th, 2021
American Institute of Physics
Featured article, Cover article
Roughness in ferroelectric thin-films
I prepared a ferro-cake… now on the cover of Applied Physics Letters!I invite you to check our featured article showing how ferroelectric domain walls progressively roughen when driven from planar electrodes
December 8th, 2021
United Kingdom
Co-organizer and chair
Early Career research in Biological Physics
I co-organized the Annual meeting for Early career researchers in Biological Physics of the Institute of Physics. There were amazing presentations by early career researchers and fruitful discussions!.
November 30th, 2021
American Institute of Physics
Featured article
Applied Physics Letters
Excited to share that today the APL Editors informed us they find our article "is one of the journal's best", and have chosen to promote it as a Featured Article! It will appear on the 13th of December, 2021 issue (In the meantime, you are welcome to read it on Arxiv).
November 17th, 2021
Arxiv
New preprint
Microscopic interplay of temperature and disorder of a 1D elastic interface, by N. Caballero et al
We numerically unveil a new power law that emerges at intermediate scales above the thermal regime and below the KPZ one. We show that its exponent is below 1, contrarily to available analytical predictions.
November 3th, 2021
United Kingdom
1st meeting
IOP Biological Physics Group Committee
I enjoyed so much the welcome meeting! It will be great to organize activities with the remarkable scientists of this commitee. It is an honor to be part of it.
November 3th, 2021
Switzerland
Invited Talk
TheBionet - Theoretical Biology Network in Western Switzerland
Thanks for the invitation to present my work at TheBioNet, a great initiative to connect Theoretical Biologist working in western Switzerland.
November 2th, 2021
American Institute of Physics
New paper
Dynamic response and roughening of ferroelectric domain walls driven at planar electrode edges
Our paper was just accepted in Applied Physics Letters
October, 2021
Paris, France
Visit
École Normale Supérieure de Paris
It is always a pleassure to discuss with such exceptional scientists!
Webpage
October 5th, 2021
Complex Physics in 2 min
New Blog post
Complex systems: Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
#ComplexPhysics in the spotlight: I celebrate that the importance of this vision of the world has been highlighted through a Nobel Prize in Physics this year. Congratulations to Giorgio Parisi, Syukuro Manabe, and Klaus Hasselman!
September 30th, 2021
Switzerland
PostDoc life
Mentoring program
With our association of Postdoctoral Researchers of the University of Geneva (APDU) we are coordinating a Mentoring program with the University of Geneva.
September 21th, 2021
United Kingdom
Early-Carrer member
IOP Biological Physics Group Committee
I am grateful to the IOP members that elected me to integrate the Committee as an early-career member for the next four years. I am honoured and looking forward to taking this role.
September 18th, 2021
Sissa, IOP Oublishing
New paper
Degradation of domains with sequential field application, by N. Caballero
My single-author paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (JSTAT). I explain, in simple terms, recent experimental results which appeared very difficult to elucidate.
September 14th, 2021
United Kingdom
Contributed Talk
The Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub++
Talk title: High-performance computing and disordered elastic systems theory as a framework to study collective cell migration.
September 6th, 2021
Spetses, Greece
Invited speaker and chair
News from disordered systems
Talk title: From bulk descriptions to emergent interfaces
September 1st, 2021
Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Contributed Talk and Jury Member
Quantum Matter Agora 2021
Talk title: Domain Walls in Ferroic Materials: A Statistical Physics Approach to Predicting the Static and Dynamic Behavior of Interfaces. The session called "Domain walls" was chaired by T. Giamarchi, and the speakers were P. Paruch and me. I was also a member of the jury to select the best poster presentation of the conference.
July 26th, 2021
University of Oxford and Institute of Physics, UK
Talk
Physics meets biology
Talk Title: High-performance computing and disordered elastic systems theory as a framework to study collective cell migration. Highlighted in the IOP Biological Physics Newsletter by Prof. Mark Leake
July 2nd, 2021
Argentina (Online)
Talk
Workshop in Statistical Physics and its applications to condensed matter physics
Talk title: Interfaces beyond the elastic approximation
June 14th, 2021
Geneva, Switzerland
Event - First Edition
Leader women in science share their stories
I organized and chaired the first edition of "Leader Women in Science share their stories" with our invited speaker Prof. Paruch
June, 2021
Brittany, France
Beg Rohu Summer School
Statistical Mechanics and emergent phenomena in Biology
I participated of the Beg Rohu Summer School "Statistical Mechanics and emergent phenomena in Biology".
May 27th, 2021
Geneva, Switzerland
Scientific event
PostDoc Day 2021
I am co-organizing the PostDoc Day 2021 of the University of Geneva
May 16th, 2021
Australia (Online)
Talk (selected as the best talk)
ISAF-ISIF-PFM (IEEE International Symposium)
Talk title: Domain Walls in Ferroic Materials: A Statistical Physics Approach to Predicting the Static and Dynamic Behavior of Interfaces
May 3th, 2021
News
Press release
A physics perspective on wound healing
With a Press Release our recent publication was highlighted by the University of Geneva and the University of Zurich
May, 5th 2021
La Plata, Argentina (Online)
Invited Talk
Institute of Physics of Liquids and Biological Systems
Thank you very much for the invitation! I was very happy to *virtually* visit Argentina to present my work, as captured here by one of the attendants.
April 23th, 2021
Nature Publishing
New paper
Roughness and dynamics of proliferating cell fronts as a probe of cell–cell interactions
Our paper was published in Scientific Reports. Rougher is faster!
April 12, 2021
Geneva, Switzerland
Elections
PostDoc Association
I have the honor of being elected President of the
PostDoc Association of the University of Geneva
March 17th, 2021
USA (Online)
Talk
March meeting
Talk title: Degradation of domains with sequential field application. Presentation of my single-author work.
March 15th 2021
Sissa, IOP Oublishing
New paper
Tuning Ginzburg–Landau theory to quantitatively study thin ferromagnetic materials
Our paper was published in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (IOP Publishing).
March 15th 2021
American Physical Society
New paper
Local Probe Comparison of Ferroelectric Switching Event Statistics in the Creep and Depinning Regimes in Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 Thin Films
Our paper was published in Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society)
February 18th, 2021
Switzerland, Online
Poster
Life Sciences Switzerland LS2
Title: Phase separation in membranes due to matter exchange
Webpage
IN THE NEWS
Our recent work is generating interest.
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