Leadership and invasion. What decides who leads a migrating group, and how do heterogeneous groups invade?
Foam rheology. How do 2D foams respond to slow shear, from small deformations to shear banding?
Granular matter. How do contacts, forces and density evolve in slowly deformed grain packs?
Soft fibre networks. How do disordered fibre networks stiffen, align and carry load?
Viscoelastic models and RHEOS. How do we describe the power-law relaxation of complex fluids, cells and tissues, and build open tools to quantify it?
Microbial calcite (MICP). Can bacteria strengthen soil from within, and how should the treatment be designed?
Acoustofluidics. How do acoustic waves in microchannels move and concentrate particles and cells?
Instruments and imaging. Which instruments and imaging methods make measurement cheaper, open and clinically useful?
Glioblastoma heterogeneity. How do glioblastoma cells at the tumour margin differ from those in the core, and why does this heterogeneity matter for invasion and for testing treatments?
Open technology for equity. How can designs, courses and student projects be shared so they work where resources are scarce?
