Nikta Fakhri

Thrilled that ALIVE: Center for Active Living Matter – Information, Vitality, and Emergence has received a @novonordiskfond Challenge Programme grant. Excited to continue our work on the thermodynamic arrow of time & information to understand emergence of multicellularity, from evolutionary origins to disease. Looking forward to this exciting collaboration with Amin Doostmohammadi @XavierTrepat @PhysOfLifeLMU.

The ministry of floppy hats! Congratulations @MIT Class of 2026… #MIT2026

Science is Curiosity on a Mission: It includes all of us who ask "why" and make it our mission to find out. These are the discoveries that move the country forward. The pursuit of ideas that seemed impossible until they weren’t. #CuriosityOnAMission

“Curiosity is the force that transforms deadly cancers into treatable conditions… that turns fusion energy from a dream to a reality…that uncovers new ways to grow more food using less of every resource,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth. #CuriosityOnAMission

Congratulations to Dr @yuchenchaoXD , my wonderful graduate student from @Harvard Applied Physics, who successfully defended today. And of course, wowed everyone! She will stay @MIT for a short postdoc before moving to @UChicago … Very proud!!

@tzerhan29 Thank you Tzer Han!

Congrats @FakhriLab!! Such tremendous news!!

@bioactivematter Thank you Kela!

@tzerhan29 @FakhriLab Congratulations Nikta! You are an inspiration to many of us.

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…

Check out this great News & Views article by @Viveknprakash: nature.com/articles/s4156…

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

@Mattia__Serra Thank you Mattia!

@FakhriLab @MIT Congrats Nikta!! 🔥

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

@MatthieuWyart Thank you Matthieu!

@FakhriLab @MIT congratulations!

@VidaJamali Thank you Vida!

@FakhriLab @MIT Congrats 🥳

@yasamanbb @MIT Thank you Yasaman!

@FakhriLab @MIT Congratulations!

@emanueladelgado @MIT Thank you Emanuela!

@FakhriLab @MIT Congrats!!!

@TheSquishyLab Thank you Sujit!

@FakhriLab @MIT Congratulations Nikta! Well deserved indeed!

@docmilanfar @MIT Thank you!

@FakhriLab @MIT Congratulations!

@EliasGzo Thank you Elias!

@FakhriLab @MIT Nice, loved your talk at Berkeley stat mech!

@CPehlevan Thank you Cengiz!

@FakhriLab @MIT Congratulations!

@jababi @MIT Thank you Ali!

@FakhriLab @MIT Congratulations Nikta!!!