Title:

Oxygen Deficiency Drives Drastic Pattern Transition in Algal Bioconvection

Biography:

Azam Gholami earned her PhD in Physics from LMU Munich and has been an Associate Professor of Physics at NYU Abu Dhabi since 2022. Her research focuses on active matter and soft-matter hydrodynamics—how simple physical rules generate complex, self-organized patterns in living and synthetic systems. Current topics include the collective behavior of cells, microswimmer physics (cilia/flagella dynamics,  bioconvection), reaction–diffusion–advection processes (chemotaxis, wave guidance), and interfacial flows such as Marangoni-driven instabilities in thin films and droplets. Her group combines continuum theory with numerical simulation and experiments (high-speed imaging, particle tracking) to connect mechanisms with transport, mixing, and control, with applications to bio-transport, environmental flows, and soft robotic actuation.