Together with @plantophagy.bsky.social, we have an opened postdoc position for a young scientist that graduated after 01/01/2025, see ad attached
Hadrien Oliveri
@hadrienoliveri.bsky.social
Applied mathematician & Group Leader at MPIPZ @mpipz.bsky.social https://holiveri.github.io/website
📢 We’re hiring in APPLIED MATHEMATICS at the OXFORD UNIVERSITY Mathematical Institute. We seek candidates using modern theoretical and computational methods to study physical, biological, medical and information sciences. Deadline: 28 Sept. Info: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/81913 #AppliedMath
Associate Professor (or Professorship) in Applied Mathematics | Mathematical Institute
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Great collaboration with Milan and Stanford finally out. We introduce a whole-brain multiphysics model coupling amyloid-β dynamics and cerebral blood flow, showing how vascular hypoperfusion can trigger and sustain Alzheimer’s disease pathology. 🧠 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
A whole-brain model of amyloid beta accumulation and cerebral hypoperfusion in Alzheimer’s disease
Accumulation of amyloid beta proteins is a defining feature of Alzheimer’s disease, and is usually accompanied by cerebrovascular pathology. Evidence …
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Fresh off the press! Jeongeun and Yoël’s work on the lightning-fast actuation of the Venus flytrap. 🪴⚡ No muscles. No nerves. So what powers the trap? Cutting the trap suppresses its mechanical amplifier, the snap-through instability, and reveals the active motion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New research in Science reveals that the Venus flytrap's snap is triggered by a rapid softening of the epidermal cell walls, uncovering the physical mechanism behind this remarkable movement. Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4fXQ9sn
Does water and soft matter matter for active matter? A small but mighty matter.
Hadrien Oliveri@hadrienoliveri.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨 Paper: Active matter physics views living systems as open, out of equilibrium, and emergent. In a perspective on plant morphogenesis 🌱we discuss how such features arise from tissue hydromechanics, and how to model them. Thank you for your attention to this active matter. shorturl.at/IKKRt
🧠 New paper out in 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 Why does tau pathology often begin in the entorhinal cortex in Alzheimer’s disease? We show that brain-wide gradients of neuronal activity and amyloid-β may make this region particularly vulnerable to tau pathology. academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
I am looking for a Post-doc in Oxford to work with me on morphogenesis at the cellular scale, with particular emphasis on growth processes and their mechanical and dynamical consequences. Please circulate my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... This bristle is created by a single cell! Let's model it.
🚨 Paper: Active matter physics views living systems as open, out of equilibrium, and emergent. In a perspective on plant morphogenesis 🌱we discuss how such features arise from tissue hydromechanics, and how to model them. Thank you for your attention to this active matter. shorturl.at/IKKRt
Towards a hydromechanical theory of plant active matter | Quantitative Plant Biology | Cambridge Core
Towards a hydromechanical theory of plant active matter
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Hadrien Oliveri@hadrienoliveri.bsky.social · 8mo agoActive matter physics studies living beings as open, out of equilibrium, and emergent systems. In this perspective on plant morphogenesis, we show how such features arise from the basic hydromechanics of plant tissue and how to capture them in models. 🌱💧 Preprint 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2512.05554
Plants are everywhere 🌳 but rarely thought of as computing. New review (preprint 🪩 lnkd.in/d5KwzzPN): plants sense, compute, and move without a brain - via growth, combining physical computation, embodied intelligence & functional noise. A physics view of decentralized behavior in living matter 🌱
Hot off the press 🚨 Epidemic spreading between regions is often modelled on a network 🕸️ But how do we describe this process properly? Here, we show how to build a linear transport operator at the network scale, by coarse-graining local advection-reaction-diffusion within edges. shorturl.at/0tAN8
A multiscale theory for network advection- reaction-diffusion - Journal of Mathematical Biology
Mathematical network models are extremely useful to capture complex propagation processes between different regions (nodes), e.g. the spread of an infectious agent between different countries, or the transport and replication of toxic proteins across different brain regions in neurodegenerative diseases. In these models, transport is modelled at the macroscale through an operator, the so-called graph Laplacian, based on the edge properties and topology, capturing the fluxes between different nodes of the network. However, this phenomenological approach fails to take into account the physical processes taking place, at the microscale, within the edge. A fundamental problem is then to obtain a transport operator from mechanistic principles based on the underlying transport process. Using advection-reaction-diffusion as a generic mechanism for inter-nodal exchanges, we derive a multiscale network transport model and derive the corresponding linear transport operator at the macroscale from first principles. This effective graph Laplacian is fully determined by the transport mechanisms along the edges at the microscale. We show that this operator correctly captures the transport, and we study its scaling properties with respect to edge length.
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Hadrien Oliveri@hadrienoliveri.bsky.social · 11mo ago⭐New preprint: "A multiscale theory for network advection-reaction-diffusion" with @alaingoriely.bsky.social and Emilia Cozzolino arxiv.org/abs/2509.06546
Preprint 🌱 Plants build nonlinear vectorial representations of light patterns! Surprising results: Opposing cues cancel, so plants grow towards a weaker tie-breaker light. Plants respond to sum of transduced signals, not physical sum of light: optical “illusions”! 🪩 tinyurl.com/44f83xh8
As part of this grant I will be looking soon for a Post-doc in Oxford to model nano-morphogenesis. Please RT and contact me directly if it is a good match for you.
Tessmar-Raible Labs@tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · 5mo agoAbsolutely thrilled that our @univie.ac.at @lifesciencesunivie.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social lab is among this year's @hfspo.bsky.social #HFSPResearchGrants, along with @alaingoriely.bsky.social @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social. A wonderful opportunity to study morphogenesis at nano-scale!
Topological data analysis is ever changing shape. We're looking for researchers to join the team to work in applied topology for data science with links to geometry and systems biology. Find out more: lnkd.in/eHJ5zJpY
1 April 2026 is Sophie Germain's 250th birthday. Sophie made major contributions to mathematics, from number theory to elasticity theory. This lecture by Fields Medallist James Maynard is part of an afternoon dedicated to Sophie's work. Find out more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80642
This is a fantastic #biophysics job opportunity to join us in Dresden @mpipks.bsky.social! Apply by the 3rd of April!
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems@mpipks.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Division of Biological Physics @mpipks.bsky.social seeks a Research Group Leader in #biophysics, #softmatter physics, or related areas. (Further particulars in the ad.) Apply by the 3rd of April 2026 at pks.mpg.de/bprgl to join us in Dresden!
By capturing the balance between aggregate formation and cellular clearance, our model explains decades of stability before sudden runaway dynamics, and offers a framework to predict disease onset and therapeutic efficacy. Mostly driven by Matthew Cotton and Georg Meisl doi.org/10.1063/5.03...
A universal phase-plane model for in vivo protein aggregation
Neurodegenerative diseases are driven by the accumulation of protein aggregates in the brain of affected individuals. The aggregation behavior in vitro is well
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0️⃣1️⃣1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣5️⃣8️⃣🌺🥬🌱🌀 @alaingoriely.bsky.social on the Shape of Plants @greshamcollege.bsky.social (featuring our work with @christhorogood.bsky.social on Nepenthes at the end www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...) www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/sh...
The Shape of Plants: Why Plants Love Mathematics and Mathematicians Love Plants
Looking at the plant world, one discovers beautiful and fascinating structures in the shape and arrangement of leaves, stems, and roots. Some are simple and symmetric, other features are arranged in e...
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Gresham College@greshamcollege.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn-person tickets open: The Shape of #Gravity: Why On Earth Are Planets Spherical? Professor Alain Goriely* explores how gravity shapes planets, from Earth’s squashed form to the limits of spherical worlds https://gres.hm/shape-gravity *also of Oxford Mathematics #astronomy #maths
The ELBE #postdoc #fellowship is a fantastic opportunity to join us in Dresden @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de. Apply now!
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 6mo agoThe spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program is open now: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a.... Join the @csbdresden.bsky.social for a fully funded fellowship. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social
The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program is open now: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a.... Join the @csbdresden.bsky.social for a fully funded fellowship. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems@mpipks.bsky.social · 6mo agoYou have a background in math/physics/computer science/ML and are looking for an interdisciplinary postdoc fellowship in life sciences with free choice of host groups? Then join us at the CSBD as an ELBE postdoc! The application deadline is the 13 of March
Hadrien Oliveri, Emilia Cozzolino, Alain Goriely: A multiscale theory for network advection-reaction-diffusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06546 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06546 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.06546
OPPORTUNITY: McGill Plant Science is looking for an expert in plant pathology, plant breeding, or horticulture in the context of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program (senior established researcher). Contact: www.mcgill.ca/plant/contact Program: lnkd.in/eavfNu7e Please re-post.
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Nouvelle vidéo ! FRONDE GRAVITATIONNELLE, SINGULARITÉS & POINTS DE LAGRANGE. On s’intéresse à quelques subtilités de la gravité newtonienne dans l’espace, et notamment le fait singulier qu’elle permet de se rendre à l’infini…en un temps fini ! Ca se passe par ici: youtu.be/xNuHtbrKwBY
Fronde gravitationnelle, Singularités et Points de Lagrange
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Job alert🚨I am advertising a 2-year postdoctoral position to work on the mathematics of plant morphogenesis @mpipz.bsky.social. Candidates with interests in mathematical modelling, mechanics, or biophysics are strongly encouraged to apply. 🌱Reposts are appreciated! jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/4...
In a sarcastic book (Histoire de l’Astronomie du dix-huitième siècle) published in 1827, Joseph Delambre writes about mathematicians: "Les géomètres, qui ne calculent rien, s’imaginent qu’un problème est résolu quand ils l’ont renfermé dans une formule dont personne ne veut faire usage."
Register for the LMS/@ima-maths.bsky.social Crighton Award Lecture on 13 May at The Royal Society. . The lecture will be given by Alain Goriely (@oxfordmathematics.bsky.social), winner of the 2025 award for his contributions to the public understanding of maths. ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/lms-i...
❗🧠 New review in IEEE RBME How network math models are reshaping how we think about neurodegenerative disease, from brain dynamics to disease progression "Network models of neurodegeneration: bridging neuronal dynamics and disease progression" ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...
