Research Interest

I obtained my PhD thesis at the University of Liège (Belgium) in 2018, working numerically and theoretically on active transport in the context of surface phenomena. I studied the physical principles of self-propulsion and micro-swimming, and I developed memory kernels to understand bimodal diffusive dynamics. Willing to switch my skills and knowledge to biological problems, I joined the PULS group to investigate the growth dynamics of epithelial tissues and its relation to the mechanical environment of the cells, originating from both the extracellular matrix and neighboring cells, integrating also their active properties in terms of division and collective migration.

Education

• Doctor in Sciences, University of Liège (Belgium), Advisor: Nicolas Vandewalle, 2018
• M. Sc., Physics – Research focus, University of Liège (Belgium), 2012
• B. Sc., Physics, University of Liège (Belgium), 2010

Outreach

• Article by A. Cho in Science Magazine “Tiny symmetric swimmer evades basic rule of fluid dynamics” (2021), focused on our letter “Scallop Theorem and Swimming at the Mesoscale” published in Phys. Rev. Lett.

Awards

• ETI grant, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2020

Publications

Submitted

• 25. Ziegler, S., Delens, M., Collard, Y., Hubert, M., Vandewalle, N., Smith, A.-S., (2023) “Metachronal coordination at the mesoscale”. Submitted.
• 24. Kozyrina, A. N., Piskova, T., Doolaar, I., Parpty, T., Semeraro, F., Ham, L.S., Haraszti, T., Hubert, M., Smith, A.-S., Di Russo, J., (2023) “Laminin alpha 5 – induced mechanical homeostasis modulates retinal epithelium functionality“. Submitted.

• 23. Höllring, K., Nuić, L., Rogić, L., Kaliman, S., Gehrer, S., Rehfeldt, F., Hubert, M., Smith, A.-S. (2023) “Capturing the mechanosensitivity of cell proliferation in models of epithelium“. Submitted.

Accepted

• 22. Höllring, K., Vurnek, D., Gehrer, S., Dudziak, D.,  Hubert, M., Smith, A.-S. (2023) “Morphology as indicator of adaptive changes of model tissues in osmotically and chemically changing environments“. Accepted.
• 21. Geyer, D., Ziegler, S., Sukhov, A., Hubert, M., Smith, A.-S., Aouane, O., Malgaretti, P., Harting, J., (2022) “Lattice Boltzmann simulations of two linear microswimmers using the immersed boundary method”. Accepted for publication in Communications in Computational Physics

Published

• 20. Hubert, M., Perrard, S., Vandewalle, N., Labousse, M., (2022) “Overload wave-memory induces amnesia of a self-propelled particle“. Nat. Commun. 13, 4357. (Editors’ highlight as one of the 50 best papers published in Nature Communications, section “Applied physics and mathematics”, as of 10.08.22.)
• 19. Ziegler, S., Scheel, T., Hubert, M., Harting, J., Smith, A.-S., (2021) “Theoretical framework for pairwise microswimmer interactions“, New. J. Phys. 23, 073041.
• 18. Kaliman, S.*, Hubert, M.*, Wollnik, C., Nuić, L., Vurnek, D., Gehrer, S., Lovrić, J., Dudziak, D., Rehfeldt, F. , Smith, A.-S., (2021) “Mechanical regulation of epithelial tissue homeostasis”, Phys. Rev. X. 11, 031029.
• 17. Hubert, M.* , Trosman, O.*, Collard Y.*, Sukhov A.*, Harting J., Vandewalle, N., Smith, A.-S., (2021) “Scallop Theorem and Swimming at the Mesoscale”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 224501.
• 16. Sukhov A., Hubert, M., Grosjean G., Trosman O., Ziegler S., Collard Y., Vandewalle N., Smith A.-S., Harting J., (2021) “Regimes of motion of magnetocapillary swimmers”,  Eur. Phys. J. E. 44, 59.
• 15. Ziegler, S., Hubert, M., Vandewalle, N., Harting, J., Smith, A.-S., (2019), “A general perturbative approach for bead-based microswimmers reveals rich self-propulsion phenomena”, New J. Phys. 21 113017.
• 14. Grosjean, G., Hubert, M., Collard, Y., Sukhov, A., Harting, J., Smith, A.-S., Vandewalle, N., (2019), “Capillary assemblies in a rotating magnetic field”, Soft Mat. 15, 9093.
• 13. Sukhov, A., Ziegler, S., Xie, Q., Trosman, O., Pande, J., Grosjean, G., Hubert, M., Vandewalle, N., Smith, A.-S., Harting, J., (2019) “Optimal motion of triangular magnetocapillary swimmer”, J. Chem. Phys. 151, 124707.
• 12. Hubert, M., Perrard, S., Labousse, M., Vandewalle, N., Couder, Y., (2019) “Tunable bimodal explorations of space from memory-driven deterministic dynamics”, Phys. Rev. E 100, 032201.
• 11. Grosjean, G., Hubert, M., Collard, Y., Pillitteri, S., Vandewalle, N., (2018) “Surface swimmers, harnessing the interface to self-propel”, Eur. Phys. J. E 41, 137.
• 10. Grosjean, G., Hubert, M., Vandewalle, N., (2018) “Magnetocapillary self-assemblies: Locomotion and micromanipulation along a liquid interface”, Adv. Coll. Int. Sci. 225 84.
• 9. Hubert, M., Labousse, M., Perrard, S., (2017) “Self-propulsion and crossing statistics under random initial conditions”, Phys. Rev. E 95, 062607.
• 8. Filoux, B., Hubert, M., Schlagheck, P., Vandewalle, N., (2017) “Walking droplets in linear channels”, Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 013601.
• 7. Dubertrand, R., Hubert, M., Schlagheck, P., Vandewalle, N., Bastin, T., Martin, J., (2016) “Scattering theory of walking droplets in the presence of obstacles”, New J. Phys. 18, 113037.
• 6. Grosjean, G., Hubert, M., Lagubeau, G., Vandewalle, N., (2016) “Realization of the Najafi-Golestanian microswimmer”, Phys. Rev. E 94, 021101.
• 5. Guillaume, G., Grosjean, G., Darras, A., Lumay, G., Hubert, M., Vandewalle, N., (2016) “Statics and dynamics of magnetocapillary bonds”, Phys. Rev. E 93, 053117.
• 4. Filoux, B., Hubert, M., Vandewalle, N., (2016) “Strings of droplets propelled by coherent waves”, Phys. Rev. E 92, 041004.
• 3. Hubert, M., Robert, D., Caps, H., Dorbolo, S., Vandewalle, N., (2015) “Resonant and antiresonant bouncing droplets”, Phys. Rev. E 91, 023017.
• 2. Grosjean, G., Lagubeau, G., Darras, A., Hubert, M., Lumay, G., Vandewalle, N., (2015) “Remote control of self-assembled microswimmers”, Sci. Rep. 5, 16035.
• 1. Hubert, M., Ludewig, F., Dorbolo, S., Vandewalle, N., (2014) “Bouncing dynamics of a spring”, Physica D 272, 1.

* = Equal contribution