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javichico.bsky.social
PhD Student @ Oxford Maths, St. John’s College. Interested in Mathematical Biology and Fluid Dynamics. javierchico.github.io
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Buckling normally happens when you compress something slender, but 'tug' on a piece of crumpled paper at two points and it also buckles. Read more about how this "localized-TUG folding" occurs in many systems at: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2423439122

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! After such a long journey, I am so glad to see this published in @PNASNews: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Big thanks to @leonardobonetti.bsky.social, Gemma Fernandez-Rubio, Peter Vuust, Gustavo Deco, Morten Kringelbach, Renaud Lambiotte and @alaingoriely.bsky.social A thread...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Excited to share our paper on the mathematical modelling of elephant trunk wrinkles, working with @langelamihai.bsky.social and @alaingoriely.bsky.social. We provide qualitative insight into surface wrinkles in elephant trunks based on nonlinear morphoelasticity. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Hot off the press! With Ibrahim Cheddadi, we tackled a key challenge: building a field theory of plant morphogenesis, based on fundamental balance laws and capturing cell wall remodelling and water dynamics in tissues🌿💧Check out our paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

submitted 123 days ago • 5 comments

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

submitted 154 days ago • 21 comments

Another one for the bucket list: when your paper makes it to Saturday Night Life Here is the paper www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 166 days ago • 4 comments

Last night I had the opportunity of sharing some bite size pieces of my research in biological sensing with St John’s undergrads at the Christmas Maths Seminar. Thanks to everyone for the questions and the tutors for setting everything up!

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments

Read about how the squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) disperses its seeds in a high pressure jet here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (or just watch the movie)

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

And a nice write-up about our paper in The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/s...

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments

Hot off the press A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 178 days ago • 1 comment