Nikta Fakhri
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Nikta Fakhri
@FakhriLab
Professor @MIT_Physics @MIT
Cambridge, MA Katılım Kasım 2015
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Congrats @FakhriLab!! Such tremendous news!!
Nikta Fakhri@FakhriLab
I’m excited to share that I’ve been promoted to Full Professor of Physics at @MIT. This milestone feels especially meaningful: I am the first Iranian woman to hold this position in physics at MIT. I carry my heritage with pride, especially in moments like this. I’m deeply grateful to my students, postdocs, colleagues and mentors. This achievement reflects the community that challenges me, supports me, and elevates the work every day. The work continues: ambitious questions, curiosity-driven science and much still to discover. Onward… to the questions we haven’t yet imagined! Picture: latest Fakhri group meeting
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@tzerhan29 @FakhriLab Congratulations Nikta! You are an inspiration to many of us.
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Nikta Fakhri retweetledi
What happens when marine embryos are crowded instead of isolated?
They become materials.
Honored to write a @NaturePhysics News & Views on excitable living solids discovered by @FakhriLab and colleagues at @MIT 😀
N&V: rdcu.be/e5gLm
Paper: nature.com/articles/s4156…
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Check out this great News & Views article by @Viveknprakash:
nature.com/articles/s4156…
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The saga of Living Chiral Crystals continues…
Excited to share our new @NaturePhysics paper ON Living Chiral Crystals 2.0!
nature.com/articles/s4156…
We show that living solids made of starfish embryos can self-organize into nonequilibrium states that generate mechanical work.
These active crystals break reciprocity and exhibit emergent modes impossible in equilibrium.
Amazing work by my group members, in collaboration with Jörn Dunkel's group @ScienceMIT.
rdcu.be/e15vd
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I’m excited to share that I’ve been promoted to Full Professor of Physics at @MIT.
This milestone feels especially meaningful: I am the first Iranian woman to hold this position in physics at MIT. I carry my heritage with pride, especially in moments like this.
I’m deeply grateful to my students, postdocs, colleagues and mentors. This achievement reflects the community that challenges me, supports me, and elevates the work every day. The work continues: ambitious questions, curiosity-driven science and much still to discover.
Onward… to the questions we haven’t yet imagined!
Picture: latest Fakhri group meeting
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@FakhriLab @MIT Nice, loved your talk at Berkeley stat mech!
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Congratulations to my colleague, Mehran Kardar, who is the recipient of 2026 Lars Onsager Prize for his groundbreaking contributions to statistical physics.
@MIT @ScienceMIT @APSphysics
American Physical Society@APSphysics
Congratulations to our spring 2026 prizes and awards recipients. The winners were chosen by a panel of their peers for their outstanding contributions in #research, #education, and #PublicService. Learn more about their award-winning work: tinyurl.com/4hnvndz8
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Life moves forward — never backward. Living systems consume energy, breaking time’s symmetry and staying far from equilibrium. That’s the hidden physics behind every heartbeat, every cell in motion, every act of becoming. @TEDxNewEngland
youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1Nyl…
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