From flocks of birds to collectives of bacteria, everwhere in nature there are examples of many simple entities sponateously forming organised structures. This fascinating phenomenon is called self-organisation and it forms the basis of my scientific curiosity. I am a postdoctoral researcher in the physical intelligence department. I am interested in understanding the fundamental principles responsible for self-organisation in systems out of equilibrium. I develop and study model experimental systems where interactions between simple entities can be programmed to facilitate their self-organisation into diverse spatiotemporal structures on demand.
I was an IMPRS-IS scholar at MPI-IS and I received my doctoral degree (magna cum laude) from the faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Stuttgart in May, 2023. I did my undergraduate studies in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kgp).
Microrobot collectives display versatile movement patterns
Collective behavior and swarm patterns are found everywhere in nature. Robots can also be programmed to act in swarms. This video describes collectives of microrobots which can move in any desired formation. The miniature particles are capable of reconfiguring their swarm behavior quickly and robustly. Floating on the surface of water, the versatile microrobotic discs can go round in circles, dance the boogie, bunch up into a clump, spread out like gas or form a straight line like beads on a string. The research project was published in Nature Communications.