Roberto Cerbino

@cerbino.bsky.social

Soft matter and biophysics @univie.ac.at. Born in Italy. Welcomed by Austria. On Bluesky to find another Twitter now that Twitter is no more.

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 2w ago

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

I am … grateful? … that Harvard’s Graduate School Fund reached out to me with a fundraising solicitation yesterday, because it helped me to organize my thoughts on an event near the end of my PhD (2005). Here is my response, just emailed to the fundraisers: (1/9)

🔬 PhD or Postdoc Position in Experimental Biophysics — University of Vienna We are hiring for the WWTF-funded project MechanoSynth — focused on decoding and engineering multiscale mechanoresponses in synthetic and biological tissues. PhD (48 months) or Postdoc (24 months). Vienna, Austria.

Are you interested in using Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM), but found it too difficult to just give it a try? Fear no more. Our new tutorial is now published in J Chem Phys (link below) and it comes with open-source code and Python notebooks to make your life easy!

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Our most recent work is out on OCT flowmetry in organ-on-chip (OoC) devices, see rdcu.be/eytR3. In this work we took on the challenge of measuring very small flow speeds in a OoC device using particle-image velocimetry and number-fluctuation OCT.

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1/ 🚀 New tutorial alert! Ever wanted to use your microscope as a multi-angle light scattering device? Our new preprint is out: 📄 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM) arXiv: 2507.05058 (link in the last skeet!) 🧵 Thread ⬇️