I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, working with Friederike Schmid on the statistical physics of block copolymer self-assembly and biomolecular condensates. Broadly, I am interested in how structure emerges in soft and living matter, both when it self-assembles at equilibrium and when it is driven away from it.

My approach combines field-theoretic methods (self-consistent field theory, hybrid particle/Ginzburg–Landau models) with particle-based simulations (Langevin dynamics, lattice Boltzmann hydrodynamics, kinetic Monte Carlo).

My current work centers on three questions: what stabilizes ordered block copolymer phases and the topological defects within them; how passive/active dopant colloidal particles steer the pathway of polymer vesicle formation; and what sets the size, shape, and organization of membraneless compartments in RNA–protein phase separation, where active transport and other non-equilibrium processes can select length scales that thermodynamics alone cannot.

Before Mainz, I completed my PhD in Physics with Gary W. Slater at the University of Ottawa, working on single-molecule transport through nanopores: how molecules are captured, why orientation and hydrodynamics matter for stiff polymers, and how pulsed fields combined with nanofluidic ratchets can separate DNA by length.