Embryogenesis as a dynamic system
Developing embryos are high-dimensional moving systems. I work on ways to describe those dynamics with variables that are interpretable, predictive, and physically meaningful.
Research
Finding structure in morphogenetic dynamics.
My work sits between physics, developmental biology, and dynamical systems: how do living tissues generate reliable form from noisy, moving, mechanically coupled parts?
Positional information in tissues
A central question is how local tissue state encodes global position and developmental context, and how that encoding changes under motion and deformation.
Geometry, mechanics, and computation
I use computational models and geometric descriptions to study how structure emerges from the interaction of mechanical motion and biological patterning.