
Matthias Merkel
group leader
email: matthias.merkel at univ-amu.fr
Short CV:
2021-today - CNRS researcher, Center for Theoretical Physics, Marseille
2019-today - Group leader, Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille
2015-2018 - Postdoc, Syracuse University
2010-2015 - Physics PhD, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

Sujit Kumar Nath
postdoc
email: sujit-kumar.nath at univ-amu.fr
Short CV:
2023-today - Postdoc, Center for Theoretical Physics, Marseille
2019-2023 - Postdoc, University of Leeds
2016-2019 - Postdoc, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
2009-2016 - Physics PhD, IIS Bangalore

Michael Wang
postdoc
email: michael.wang at univ-amu.fr
Short CV:
2024-today - Postdoc, Center for Theoretical Physics, Marseille
2021-2024 - Postdoc, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2015-2021 - Physics PhD, New York University

Katia Barrett
PhD student, co-supervised with Pierre-François Lenne
email: katia.barrett at univ-amu.fr
Short CV:
2019-today - Biology PhD student, Institute for Developmental Biology, Marseille
2017-2019 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences (AIV) Master, Paris

Patrick Breier
PhD student, co-supervised with Thomas Lecuit
email: patrick.breier at univ-amu.fr
Short CV:
2022-today - Biology PhD student, Institute for Developmental Biology, Marseille
2016-2022 - Physics master, Technical University, Dresden

Lukas Zett
PhD student
email: lukas.zett at univ-amu.fr
Short CV:
2024-today - Physics PhD student, Center for Theoretical Physics, Marseille
2024 - Intern, Center for Theoretical Physics, Marseille
2020-2023 - Physics master, LMU, Munich
Alumni:
- Muhamet (Meti) Ibrahimi, PhD student 2019-2022, then postdoc at Geneva University
- Niels Gouirand, PhD student 2019-2022, then gendarmerie officer school
- Bandan Chakrabortty, postdoc 2019-2023, then Assistant Professor at the IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India
- Cheng-Tai Lee, postdoc 2020-2022, then postdoc at the Weizmann Institute
- Simon Gsell, postdoc 2020-2022, then Maître de Conférences (lecturer) at Aix-Marseille University
- Shalabh Kumar Anand, postdoc 2023-2025, then postdoc at Innsbruck University
- Christopher Mazzerbo, master intern 2024, then PhD student at Aix-Marseille University