Biography
Positions
since 2025: Els Koffeman Postdoctoral Fellow – University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands) 2022-2025: Lynden-Bell Research Fellow – DAMTP & Clare College, Cambridge (UK) 2024: David Crighton Fellow & Visiting Scholar – Brown University, Providence (USA) 2021-2022: Postdoctoral Research Associate – Collège de France, Paris (France)
Education
2017-2021: PhD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics – DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK) 2016-2017: MMath Applied Mathematics (Distinction) – Trinity College, University of Cambridge (UK) 2013-2016: BA Pure & Applied Mathematics (First Class Hons) – Trinity College, University of Cambridge (UK) 2011-2013: Scottish Highers and Advanced Highers – Dollar Academy, Scotland (UK) before 2011: Romanian High School Diploma – Colegiul Național I.C. Brătianu, Hateg (Romania)
Awards & Grants
2024: Royal Society International Exchanges Award (with Roberto Zenit) 2023: David Crighton Fellowship, DAMTP, University of Cambridge 2022: Senior Rouse Ball Studentship, Trinity College 2020: Runner-up Prize, Smith Institute's Annual TakeAIM competition 2017-2020: George and Lilian Schiff Studentship 2017-2019: Rouse Ball and Eddington Fund Travel Awards, Trinity College 2017: Honorary Vice-Chancellor's Award 2016: Trinity College Summer Research Studentship 2015-2017: Senior Scholar of Trinity College 2011-2013: Full Scholarship, HMC Projects in Central and Eastern Europe
Invited Talks
2026: "Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics" Minisymposium: European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology (Graz, Austria) 2026: Computational Soft Matter Seminar at the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2025: Dutch Soft Matter Meeting (Utrecht, Netherlands) 2025: SoftBio Theory Seminar at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics (Oxford, UK) 2025: IntCha25 Conference: "Interdisciplinary challenges in the physics of complexity and life" (Heidelberg, Germany) 2025: Applied Mathematics Seminar at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) 2025: International "Living Fluids" Workshop (Marrakesh, Morocco) 2025: Mathematical Biology Seminar at the University of Leeds (Leeds, UK) 2025: Applied Mathematics Seminar at Durham University (Durham, UK) 2025: Fluid Dynamics Seminar at Imperial College (London, UK) 2024: MathBio Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) 2024: Physics Colloquium at Boston College (Boston, USA) 2024: FriSBi Seminar at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (Vienna, Austria) 2024: Industrial and Applied Mathematics Seminar at the University of Oxford (Oxford, UK) 2024: Biophysics Seminar at the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK) 2023: 34th International Conference on Science & Technology of Complex Fluids (San Luis Potosi, Mexico) 2023: External Seminar, CNRS Centre de Biologie Structurale (Montpellier, France) 2023: North West Seminar Series of Mathematical Biology and Data Science (Liverpool, UK) 2023: Center for Fluid Mechanics Seminar Series at Brown University (Providence, USA) 2022: External Seminar, Continuum Mechanics and Industrial Mathematics group, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) 2022: UK BioActive Fluids Network Early-Career Webinar Series (online) 2022: External Seminar, MPI Physics of Complex Systems (Dresden, Germany) 2020: Theory Group Seminar, Physico-Chimie Curie Lab (online) 2020: Annual Symposium of the Trinity Mathematical Society (Cambridge, UK)
