Soft Matter: upcoming seminars, recordings and deadlines

This week

1 upcoming talk

Closes today

Oct 14

ERC Starting Grant

European Research CouncilOpen to all fields

Wed, Oct 14 · 16:00 UTC · Online

Self-Assembling Matter with Sound

Heinrich Jaeger · University of Chicago

Closes tomorrow

Oct 15

Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbial Biophysics

INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials · Saarbrücken, Germany

Closes in 2 days

Oct 16

PhD Position in Soft-Matter Modeling for Mechanobiology

University of Groningen · Groningen, Netherlands

Opportunities

Career stage

All 5 jobs All 14 funding calls

Closes Nov 30

CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship — Call 27

CAPES and Alexander von Humboldt FoundationOpen to all fields

Closes Dec 2

Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master’s program

CIHR, NSERC and SSHRCOpen to all fields

Closes Jan 12, 2027

ERC Consolidator Grant 2027

European Research CouncilOpen to all fields

Conferences and workshops

1 upcoming workshop

Dec 14–18, 2026

From Glasses to Life: Non-equilibrium Physics of Complex Matter

People

All people in Soft Matter

Ellen Phiddian
Latest: Lab Notes: When is it time to throw in the towel? · Oct 7
Jonathan Webb
Latest: Lab Notes: When is it time to throw in the towel? · Oct 7
Christian Tetzlaff
Latest: Investigation of the Mechanisms Regulating Postsynaptic Density · Sep 29, 2024
Nahid Safari
Latest: Investigation of the Mechanisms Regulating Postsynaptic Density · Sep 29, 2024
Heinrich Jaeger
University of Chicago · as of Oct 2026
Next: Self-Assembling Matter with Sound · Oct 14, 2026
Harukuni Ikeda
Kyoto University · as of Dec 2026
Next: From Glasses to Life: Non-equilibrium Physics of Complex Matter · Dec 14

On demand

All 35 recorded talks 1 ePoster All 2 podcast episodes

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 · 17:30 UTC · In person

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Philip Jones · University College LondonVideo · 1 h 6 min

Investigation of the Mechanisms Regulating Postsynaptic Density

Nahid Safari, Christian Tetzlaff

Mon, Aug 15, 2022 · 00:00 UTC · Online

Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals

Alexander Mietke · MITVideo page

Wed, May 26, 2021 · 15:00 UTC · Online

Trapping active particles up to the limiting case: bacteria enclosed in a biofilm

Chantal Valeriani · Complutense MadridVideo · 44 min

New and updated

Fri, Jul 23, 2021 · 05:00 UTC

Enzyme driven active matter

Jennifer Ross · Syracuse University

Tue, Nov 3, 2020 · 05:45 UTC · Online

“Rigidity and Fluidity in Biological Tissue”

Christina Marchetti · University of California, Santa Barbara

Thu, Oct 29, 2020 · 09:00 UTC · Online

1 - Tunable multiphase dynamics of arginine and lysine liquid condensates and 2 - Modulating protein condensates

1. Shana Elbaum-Garfinke, 2. Tim Nott · 1. CUNY and 2. Oxford University

Wed, Dec 2, 2020 · 15:00 UTC · Online

Stochastic control of passive colloidal objects by micro-swimmers

Raphael Jeanneret · University of Warwick

Nearby fields

All fields

This week

1 upcoming talk

Closes today

Oct 14

ERC Starting Grant

European Research CouncilOpen to all fields

Wed, Oct 14 · 16:00 UTC · Online

Self-Assembling Matter with Sound

Heinrich Jaeger · University of Chicago

Closes tomorrow

Oct 15

Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbial Biophysics

INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials · Saarbrücken, Germany

Closes in 2 days

Oct 16

PhD Position in Soft-Matter Modeling for Mechanobiology

University of Groningen · Groningen, Netherlands

Opportunities

Career stage

All 5 jobs All 14 funding calls

Closes Nov 30

CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship — Call 27

CAPES and Alexander von Humboldt FoundationOpen to all fields

Closes Dec 2

Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master’s program

CIHR, NSERC and SSHRCOpen to all fields

Closes Jan 12, 2027

ERC Consolidator Grant 2027

European Research CouncilOpen to all fields

Conferences and workshops

1 upcoming workshop

Dec 14–18, 2026

From Glasses to Life: Non-equilibrium Physics of Complex Matter

People

All people in Soft Matter

Ellen Phiddian
Latest: Lab Notes: When is it time to throw in the towel? · Oct 7
Jonathan Webb
Latest: Lab Notes: When is it time to throw in the towel? · Oct 7
Christian Tetzlaff
Latest: Investigation of the Mechanisms Regulating Postsynaptic Density · Sep 29, 2024
Nahid Safari
Latest: Investigation of the Mechanisms Regulating Postsynaptic Density · Sep 29, 2024
Heinrich Jaeger
University of Chicago · as of Oct 2026
Next: Self-Assembling Matter with Sound · Oct 14, 2026
Harukuni Ikeda
Kyoto University · as of Dec 2026
Next: From Glasses to Life: Non-equilibrium Physics of Complex Matter · Dec 14

On demand

All 35 recorded talks 1 ePoster All 2 podcast episodes

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 · 17:30 UTC · In person

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Philip Jones · University College LondonVideo · 1 h 6 min

Investigation of the Mechanisms Regulating Postsynaptic Density

Nahid Safari, Christian Tetzlaff

Mon, Aug 15, 2022 · 00:00 UTC · Online

Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals

Alexander Mietke · MITVideo page

Wed, May 26, 2021 · 15:00 UTC · Online

Trapping active particles up to the limiting case: bacteria enclosed in a biofilm

Chantal Valeriani · Complutense MadridVideo · 44 min

New and updated

Fri, Jul 23, 2021 · 05:00 UTC

Enzyme driven active matter

Jennifer Ross · Syracuse University

Tue, Nov 3, 2020 · 05:45 UTC · Online

“Rigidity and Fluidity in Biological Tissue”

Christina Marchetti · University of California, Santa Barbara

Thu, Oct 29, 2020 · 09:00 UTC · Online

1 - Tunable multiphase dynamics of arginine and lysine liquid condensates and 2 - Modulating protein condensates

1. Shana Elbaum-Garfinke, 2. Tim Nott · 1. CUNY and 2. Oxford University

Wed, Dec 2, 2020 · 15:00 UTC · Online

Stochastic control of passive colloidal objects by micro-swimmers

Raphael Jeanneret · University of Warwick

Nearby fields

All fields