Ricard Alert
The Physics of Living Matter
CV
Research experience
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Research Group Leader
Max Planck Society 2022-present
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems &
Center for Systems Biology Dresden
October 2021 - present
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Funding: ERC Starting Grant
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Postdoctoral fellow
HFSP fellowship 2018-2021
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science &
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
March 2018 - August 2021
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Award: John Archibald Wheeler Fellowship
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Ph.D. student
La Caixa fellowship 2013-2017
Department of Condensed Matter Physics
November 2013 - January 2018
Ph.D. Thesis: Forces and flows in cells and tissues. Blebs, active gels, and collective cell migration
Advisor: Prof. Jaume Casademunt
Visiting Ph.D. student
Development Travelling fellowship
Département de Physico-Chimie du Vivant
May 2016 - July 2016
Advisor: Prof. Jacques Prost
Visiting Ph.D. student
EMBO Short-Term fellowship
Institut Curie
Département de Physico-Chimie du Vivant
September 2015 - November 2015
Advisor: Prof. Jacques Prost
Visiting student
Marie Curie Early-Stage Research fellowship
July 2013 - October 2013
Advisors: Dr. Jure Dobnikar, Prof. Daan Frenkel
Research internship
Department of Structure and Constituents of Matter
October 2012 - July 2013
Advisors: Dr. Pietro Tierno, Prof. Jaume Casademunt
Research scholarship
Department of Structure and Constituents of Matter
September 2011 - June 2012
Advisor: Prof. Jaume Casademunt
Research internship
July 2011 - September 2011
Teaching
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Pattern Formation in Biology
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Fall term 2023-2024
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Advanced Biological Physics
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Spring term 2022-2023
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The Active Matter Physics of Collective Cell Behaviors
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Training Program in Quantitative Biology and Ecology
Summer 2022
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Mathematical Models in Biology
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Molecular Biology Undergraduate Course (MOL 485)
Spring term 2019-2020
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Professor: Prof. Yigal Meir
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Biophysics
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Physics Graduate Course (PHY 562)
Spring term 2018-2019
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Professor: Prof. William Bialek
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Biophysics
Spring term 2015-2016
Professors: Prof. Marta Ibañes, Prof. Jordi Soriano
Education
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Ph.D. in Physics
Department of Condensed Matter Physics
November 2013 - January 2018
Award: Runner-up of the 2019 Biological Physics Doctoral Thesis Award by the American Physical Society
Award: 1st Jorge Wagensberg Award to the Best Doctoral Thesis in Complex Systems by complexitat.cat
Award: Extraordinary Ph.D. in Physics by the University of Barcelona
Ph.D. Thesis: Forces and flows in cells and tissues. Blebs, active gels, and collective cell migration
Advisor: Prof. Jaume Casademunt
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Master in Biophysics
September 2012 - September 2013
Award: Extraordinary Master in Biophysics by the University of Barcelona
Master Thesis: Theory of cell membrane-cortex adhesion dynamics
Advisor: Prof. Jaume Casademunt
Bachelor in Physics
September 2007 - June 2012
Award: Extraordinary Bachelor in Physics by the University of Barcelona