University of Miami Department of Physics

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…

📢 PhD Position Alert! I’m recruiting a Physics PhD student (Fall 2026) at @univmiami @MiamiPhysics to work on biological fluid mechanics in marine larvae 🌊🪸⭐ Requirements: • BS/MS in Physics • Willing to do experiments + theory Interested? Email CV, statement, 2–3 refs

🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨 NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava (Harvard) 🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026 ⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP! #Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics

We are pleased to have Dr. Damon A. Clark from @Yale give our Physics Colloquium talk tomorrow on Wednesday from 4-5 pm! Talk title: "Circuits and algorithms to extract visual features from scenes" (Please join if you are around) 😀

Let's look at some cool bilateral cellular flows videos! IMHO: this is a goldmine for #EpithelialMechanics Movie from Asai et al 2024 shows beautiful counter rotating flows.

Come be my colleague at @univmiami! 😃 We’re hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Theoretical or Computational Biological Physics — join our growing biophysics community in sunny Miami ☀️ Apply by Dec 15 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n9bk836 #PhysicsJobs #Biophysics #TheoreticalPhysics

Last Thursday evening, I was honored to give the keynote at @FrostScience's annual fundraiser!😀 Celebrating Leonardo da Vinci — 500 Years of Genius, I spoke about how curiosity, imagination, and creativity drive both art & science—even in the age of AI. #FrostScience #DaVinci500

The Physics Dept. was proud to join @univmiami #Homecoming2025, sharing our planetarium experience with alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences! 🌌🎓 Great night celebrating science, discovery & #CaneSpirit! #UMiami #Physics #Planetarium

🌌 Great night at our Planetarium Night! 😀 We screened “Two Small Pieces of Glass” movie on the history of telescopes, followed by “What’s in the Sky”. Thanks to students Joseph & Sam for running the show!Planetarium open to public every 3rd Thursday of the month! @univmiami

We are pleased to have Dr. Sruthi Narayanan from the @Perimeter Institute give our Physics Colloquium talk on Wednesday from 4-5 pm! Talk title: "A Hologram for Quantum Gravity" (Please join if you are around) 😀

⚛️ The University of Miami @univmiami joins the Florida Alliance for Quantum Technology, uniting universities, government & industry to make Florida a leader in #QuantumScience. We’re shaping the next quantum revolution! 🔗news.miami.edu/as/stories/202…

🎉 Shout-out to our former PhD student Daniela Bogorin (advised by Prof. Galeazzi), now a Quantum Researcher @IBMResearch ! 😃 Watch Daniela explain how her team tests quantum processors & tracks performance for client deployment readiness: youtube.com/watch?v=sUCK4R…

We are pleased to have Prof. Md Selim Habib, from Florida Institute of Technology give our Physics Colloquium talk on Wednesday from 4-5 pm! Talk title: "Hollow-Core Fibers: Physics, Applications and Beyond " (Please join if you are around) 😀 @univmiami

✨ Our new StarLab portable planetarium is here! 🌌 Think astronomy shows, full-dome movies, science documentaries, and physics fun — all under one immersive dome. Excited to share this with our students & community! @univmiami #Physics #Astronomy #STEM #StarLab

Please join us in congratulating our colleague Prof. Olga Korotkova on being named to "The Photonics100 (2026)" by Electro Optics! 😃 🎉🙌 🥳 This honor highlights her impactful contributions to optics and photonics. #ThePhotonics100 #Photonics #Optics @univmiami @MiamiPhysics

Our FlumeX platform is out in @HardwareX1 ! 🌊⚙️😀🥳🎉🪅 An inexpensive, open-source flume for studying biological flows and environmental fluid mechanics. A major collaborative effort, funded by @DARPA REEFENSE 🌊🪸 @univmiami @MiamiRosenstiel 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.…

Our new collaborative paper with @CyndiBradham's lab at BU, led by first author @Alex_T_Lion is out in @Dev_Bio_Journal & featured on Sept 2025 cover! 🥳😃 Proud of our @univmiami contributions!! PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development! doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbi…

We are pleased to have Prof. Danila Barskiy from @univmiami_Chem @univmiami Department of Chemistry give our Physics Colloquium talk today from 4-5 pm! Talk title: "Magnetic J-oscillators: Audio-Band Molecular Masers" (Please join if you are around) 😀

We kicked off the semester with a Physics Meet & Greet! 🎉😀 Great to reconnect after summer and welcome new members over food & conversation in the Physics Library. #Fall2025 #Physics @univmiami

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? There are the pleasures of: 1. Having the initial idea or insight, 2. Watching the idea develop into new experiments or a new model, and 3. Telling others. Martin A. Schwartz also talks about this on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/74-…