Aarts lab

Research group led by Dirk Aarts at the University of Oxford. We are interested in theoretical and experimental soft matter and biological research

[Christ Church @ChCh_Oxford]

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman, Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, who received a prize for her oral presentation at the European Colloids Conference in Bristol! 👏

Read more 👉 https://t.co/zIRWwg15ts

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[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Our lab is very pleased to have acheived Gold LEAF sustainable lab accreditation! 🏅🌿🥼 @ChCh_Oxford @OxfordChemistry @oxfordenvsust

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Congratulations to our 'Rising Star' Clare! 🌟

[Christ Church @ChCh_Oxford]

Christ Church's Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman was recently invited to write a paper for the journal Applied Mathematical Modelling as part of a special issue entitled 'Prominent Contributions by Rising Stars in Applied Mathematics'. Congratulations to our rising star! ⭐(1/2)

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Congratulations Clare (Junior Research Fellow in our group) on this Knowledge Exchange award! 😁👏

[Clare Rees-Zimmerman @ClareRZ]

I'm delighted to have received a @IneosOxford Knowledge Exchange grant, for learning more about simulations to understand antimicrobial resistance with the lab of @chavaleriani! @ChCh_Oxford @OxfordChemistry 🦠🧫👩‍💻

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Congratulations @jackdutch123 and Dirk on this publication with Tim Nott on the wetting behaviour of biomolecular condensates! 🧫💦 https://t.co/8hjHONf1hR @OxfordChemistry @ChCh_Oxford

[Jack Holland @jackdutch123]

My latest article was published last month in JCP with Tim Nott and Dirk Aarts. We show the hydrophobic nature of IDP condensates results in an effective repulsion with (hydrophilic) membrane surfaces, and an attraction to hydrophobic surfaces.

[Early Career Colloid Network @ECColloid]

It’s not too late to submit an abstract for ECCo 2025 - the deadline is now extended to the 6th of May. Join us in Aston!

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Congratulations to Clare and Dirk, and collaborators in the groups of Prof Chantal Valeriani @chavaleriani @unicomplutense and Prof Mark Miller @DurhamChemistry, on their paper comparing inverse methods for measuring inter-particle potentials! 📏🔬🧮 https://t.co/196gGgGZTo

[Christ Church @ChCh_Oxford]

A joint paper on molecular dynamics authored by Christ Church's Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman and Professor Dirk Aarts together with teams from Madrid and Durham has been published in The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Learn all about the research here ➡️ https://t.co/upiqupQJqH

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

This week, the Aarts lab @OxfordChemistry had a group dinner @gusto_uk Nice food with nice people 😁🍕🍝

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Dirk, Esme and Clare enjoyed great discussions last week about the colloid-polymer depletion interaction with Prof Remco Tuinier & Dr Max Martens at @TUeindhoven @TUe_ST 📖💭🔬🇳🇱

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Well done Clare (a Junior Research Fellow in our group) on the poster prize!! 👏😁

[Clare Rees-Zimmerman @ClareRZ]

Yesterday's Women in Chemistry @OxWiChem Day at @OxfordChemistry was a lovely event, showcasing work from across the department. I enjoyed sharing my work, for which I was delighted to receive the prize for the best Physical & Theoretical Chemistry poster! @ChCh_Oxford

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

First Aarts group meeting of the academic year - welcome to our 5 new Part II students! 🧪🥼 @OxfordChemistry @ChCh_Oxford

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Our lab is pleased to be reaccredited with the Silver LEAF sustainability status! 🥈🌿 @OxfordChemistry @oxfordenvsust @ChCh_Oxford

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Congrats to Lachlan & Dirk, with collaborators, on their article in @PhysRevE! Read about using machine learning to discover the dynamic laws of active matter, such as groups of cells, fish and birds 🦠🐠🐦 @chavaleriani @ChCh_Oxford @OxfordChemistry

https://t.co/f3szzsYaTA

[OCSBM @OxSoftBioMatter]

A great opportunity for early career colloid researchers!

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Dr Jack Holland giving the Physical Chemistry @OxfordChemistry departmental Soft Matter Seminar today! The audience were educated on emergent phenomena of biological condensates 👨‍🏫🧫💧 @jackdutch123 @ChCh_Oxford

[Paco Alarcon @Paco_Alarcon]

Prof. Dirk Aarts @AartsLabOx from @UniofOxford starting the 2nd day of the @LIIWMSP

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

If you're in town, see Dirk about to talk in Mexico, on g(r) ➡️u(r)➡️μ @LIIWMSP @ChCh_Oxford

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

Congratulations to Clare for winning 'Guess the number of M&M's in the jar' at the PTCL @OxfordChemistry Christmas Party - all that practice counting colloidal particles paid off! 🍡🥳

[Aarts lab @AartsLabOx]

An editors' pick! ✅️ Congratulations to Adam Stones & Dirk Aarts on their new paper, showing how to measure many-body effects in fluid structure 💦🧮 @OxfordChemistry @ChCh_Oxford https://t.co/ek3AvzFGvd

[Jack Holland @jackdutch123]

Proud to be involved in this. We showed (very) weak binding of multivalent cations to IDR -ve charges provides exquisite sensitivity of condensate properties to mM fluctuations in [cation]. Crucially, [Ca2+] stabilised condensates comprising -vely charged proteins