Understanding, designing, and controlling collective and stochastic states in living matter
I am a theoretical physicist and applied mathematician working to untangle the complexities of living matter such as assemblies of disordered proteins, collectives of biological cells, and macro-molecular transporters. A thread running through all my research is the building of minimal “bare bones” models and theoretical and computational frameworks to understand, design, and control, biological and active matter.
Currently, I am a Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics at UCL.
I will soon (Jul 2024) be starting an Isaac Newton Institute Fellowship, located in Cambridge.
Affiliation from July 2024.
Current affiliation is UCL. As of July 2024 I will be an Honorary Research Fellow.
Other universities and institutes I have been affiliated with
Latest news
(April 2024) Attended my first BAMC meeting in Newcastle and gave a talk in the Mathematics and Physics of Active and Living Systems session.
(March 2024) Secured my second Laidlaw UG Scholar, who will start work in June 2024.
(March 2024) Gave an invited talk on work on active matter under control and was part of a panel discussion on EDI in physics in the PhysicsIsYou conference (London).
(March 2024) Presented work about our Nat. Comms. paper (Tactoids) at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis, USA.
(Feb 2024) I have won x2 Fellowships! I will soon be joining the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge as an INI Fellow, then joining the University of Edinburgh for a 4-year (eq. Lecturer) Flora Philip Fellowship. Excited to push the boundaries of theoretical biophysics and stat mech.
(Feb 2024) I have been profiled by the Mathematically Gifted and Black (MGB) initiative https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/dr-luke-k-davis/.
(Feb 2024) First author publication in Physical Review X now out! It was also highlighted in the Physics magazine as a viewpoint: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/20
