Nikta Fakhri

We made the cover of PRX!!
Our work on nonreciprocal living matter is on the cover of @PhysRevX!
Very proud of this work and this amazing team!
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Cover credit: APS/Ella Maru

At the @theNASEM Fall Meeting of the Board on Physics! Honored & excited to have been elected to the Board!
An inspiring first day hearing about frontiers in physics & perspectives from federal agencies and foundations.
I am looking forward to tomorrow’s discussions & to being part of the conversation about the future of physics.
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What an honor! So grateful to my wonderful group members (alumni & current) @MIT, colleagues & mentors who have been part of my scientific journey.
I am thrilled to be named an @APSphysics Fellow!

Very excited to see our work out today in @PhysRevX with a wonderful feature in @PhysicsMagazine!

Using starfish embryos, we uncover how nonreciprocal interactions reshape collective states, from crystals to flocking to fragmentation.

We introduce topological flowscapes to capture not just the landscape of collective states, but the dynamics of transitions between them.

And the part I am excited about is that the flowscapes reveal an informational rate shift and emergent proofreading at the experimental state transition.

A step toward a question we are fascinated by: how information, irreversibility & nonreciprocity can shape the dynamics & thermodynamics of living collectives.

Congrats to all the amazing coauthors.

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physics.aps.org/articles/v19/1…

ALIVE is alive!
Very excited to launch the Center for Active Living Matter: Information, Vitality & Emergence, with support from the @novonordiskfond.
Our ambition: to uncover the physical principles of multicellularity, from origins to health and disease.
From the arrow of time to the arrow of life. w/ Amin Doostmohammadi
@PhysOfLifeLMU @XavierTrepat