Program

38th Dutch Soft Matter Meeting — 19/12/2025 — Utrecht University

TimeEvent
10:00Registration
10:40Welcome
10:45 Udo Sen (WUR) “Soft walls, restless lives: how microbes redesign the maze?”
11:15 Marianne Bauer (TUD) “The phase space of biological systems: Optimization, Inference and Constraints”
11:45Soundbites I
12:30Lunch
13:30Keynote: Dirk Aarts (Oxford University) “Model-free measurement of interactions in Soft Matter: no need for ML”
14:15 Maria Tatulea-Codrean (UvA) “From Rotary Motors to Synchronized Rotors: the Emergent Dynamics of Mechanically-Coupled Living Systems”
14:45Soundbites II
15:15Coffee break
15:45 Emma Hinderink (TUD) “Effect of interfacial properties on the flow behaviour of food emulsions”
16:15 Jesse Steenhoff (UU) “Phase-field models for particle-stabilised emulsions”
16:45 Borrel (drinks & informal discussions)