matildabackholm.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Soft Matter Physics at Aalto University, Finland | Forces and flow in mesoscale living, fluid, & soft matter | ERC StG laureate & Research Council of Finland Fellow | EPL co-editor
aalto.fi/living-matter
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Congrats on the cover and the beautiful work!
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Focus on research and supervision 🥂
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Congrats!
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Big congrats, Jose! Well deserved and sounds like an exciting project!
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What a wonderful collection of people! I'd love to join as well.
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True, just me being slow 😄
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Thanks for sharing! It's starting to look like the best approach also on the physics side.
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Autch
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👌
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That's really good to know. Is it generally better to upload after journal submission? Most are fine with the paper being in arxiv also before the formal submission?
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So the citations are not sonehow magically combined once the real paper is out? I thought that arxiv works a bit against scooping, that an arxiv paper sort of sets the date for the discovery?
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Good point! It's really nice if the community can provide its own group review.
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Thanks for sharing! I think I just need a small final push over the energy barrier of reluctance :)
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Getting early feedback and follow-up collaborators are great benefits! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks! I am somehow stuck with the need for the peer-review stamp of approval before sharing our work with the rest of the world. But then again, we have also presented it at conferences already, so it doesn't make much sense.
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Wow, what an impressive person and scientist! Very nice article.
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Together with Dan Daniel and Maja Vuckovac et al., we wrote up a review paper on how to probe wetting across different scales. Paper in Commun. Phys. 2023: doi.org/10.1038/s420...
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I also had other fun collaborations with Sakari Lepikko (Small 2024 doi.org/10.1002/smll...) and Matti Hokkanen (Adv. Mater. 2021 doi.org/10.1002/adma...) where I helped with the force measurements.
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In a project led by Sakari Lepikko, we probed the lowest friction recorded this far. Paper in Nat. Chem. (2024): doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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In a big collaboration led by Alexander Tesler, I measured the friction force of a new type of superhydrophobic surface. Paper in Nat. Mater. (2023): doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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We further developed the technique to probe also the viscous dissipation of drops moving on these surfaces. We found a cool new friction force in the air film trapped under the drop. Paper in PNAS (2024): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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My first project focused on friction force measurements using the micropipettes while simultaneously probing the fluid dynamics inside the droplet. Paper in Commun. Mater. (2020): doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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Super, thanks! I'm now doing a small scifi tour (Hail mary was superb, now reading A long way... by Chambers). Before that I accidentally picked up A little life from the library not knowing what it was about, but I managed to get through it so everything dark, heavy, and sad should go after that :/
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It is very much jedi business 😎
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Loved this book! Thanks for the recommendation. Any other book tips? :)
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I had the great privilege to meet prospective BSc summer researchers a few weeks ago, and the exact same thought went through my mind.
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Exactly!
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Interesting! It goes on my list 👌 Thank you!
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Don't know it, will read it! 😊 Thanks!
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Thank you!
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Nice, sounds perfect! Thanks!
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Sounds great, I love curious people. Thanks!
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for looking it up!
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That's cool! What type of work did she do in the lab? Was it research for the book, or did she work as a researcher (or writer) on the side?
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Welcome!
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It is and I absolutely love it!
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I tend to be the weirdo in the room most of the time. Most biophysicists work on much smaller length scales (biomolecules to cells). Mesoscale biological physics would perhaps describe me best :)
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Thank you!