Jaume Casademunt Viader

Jaume Casademunt Viader

Full professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-6154-439X
Scopus Author ID: 56253574000
Researcher ID: S-8777-2016
Knowledge area: Física de la Matèria Condensada

Research group: Física no lineal

Contact Information
Department of Condensed Matter Physics
Av. Diagonal, 647
934021188
jaume.casademunt(a)ub.edu

My profile

We apply the concepts and tools of statistical and nonlinear physics to unveil inner mechanisms and general principles behind biological complexity. The ultimate goal is to understand the most extraordinary ... + info

Academic training

Ciencias Físicas / Physical Sciences . Universidad de Barcelona . 06/1985 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Ciencias Físicas / Physical Sciences . Universidad de Barcelona . 11/1988 . (Ph.D.)

Teaching imparted

Mecànica (Bachelor's degree) - Física - Universidad de Barcelona.
Biofísica (Bachelor's degree) - Física - Universidad de Barcelona.
Fonaments de Mecànica, Ones, Fluids i Termodinàmica (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Biomédica(1) - Universidad de Barcelona.
Física Estadística (Bachelor's degree) - Física - Universidad de Barcelona.
Termodinàmica (Bachelor's degree) - Física - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Fluctuations in Non-Equilibrium systems. Theory of Stochastic Processes. Applications to nonlinear optics (semiclassical lasers)
Morphological instabilities and pattern formation in non-equilibrium interfaces. Hele-Shaw flows (viscous fingering)
Fluid dynamics in microgravity. Two-phase flows, bubbles and turbulence
Nonlinear phenomena in non-equilibrium, spatially extended systems. Spatio-temporal self-organization in complex systems. Pattern Formation
Physics of biological processes at molecular, cellular and multicellular scales

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Ido Lavi . (2019) . Physical Modeling of Cell Motility and Morphodynamics (Ph.D. Thesis) . Université Sorbonne (Paris).
Ricard Alert Zenón . (2018) . Forces and flows in in cells and tissues. Blebs, active gels, and collective cell migration (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Participation in projects

Fenómenos de no-equilibrio en Materia Blanda: de fluidos complejos a tejidos celulares . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.FIS2016-78507-C2-2-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Jaume Casademunt Viader; Pietro Tierno
Materia blanda forzada, activa y viva . 2014 - 2016 . Ref.FIS2013-41144-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Jaume Casademunt Viader; Francesc Sagues Mestre
Injection of nucleate-boiling slug flows into a heat exchange chamber . 2012 - 2015 . Ref.FA8655-12-1-2060 . Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USA) . PI: Jaume Casademunt Viader
Auto-organización en materiales blandos y materia viva: II) Fluidos complejos, Células y Tejidos . 2011 - 2013 . Ref.FIS2010-21924-C02-02 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Jaume Casademunt Viader
Nonequilibrium physics from complex fluids to biological systems . 2002 - 2006 . Ref.HPRN-CT-2002-00312 . Unió Europea . PI: Jaume Casademunt Viader
Pattern formation, noise and spatio-temporal chaos in complex systems. Patterns, noise & chaos . 1996 - 2000 . Ref.ERB FMRX-CT96-0085 . Unió Europea . PI: Jaume Casademunt Viader

Journal Publications

Martínez-Prat, B.;Ignés-Mullol, J.;Casademunt, J.;Sagués, F. (2019). Selection mechanism at the onset of active turbulence. Nature Physics, 15, pp. 362 - 366 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1745-2473
Pérez-González, C.; Alert, R.; Blanch-Mercader, C.; Gómez-González, M.; Kolodziej, T.; Bazellierres, E.; Casademunt, J.; Trepat, X. (2019). Active wetting of epithelial tissues. Nature Physics, 15, pp. 79 - 88 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0279-5 . ISSN: 1745-2473
Alert, R.; Tierno, P.; Casademunt, J. (2017). Mixed-order phase transition in a colloidal crystal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS, 114(49), pp. 12906 - 12909 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0027-8424
Alert, R.; Tierno, P.; Casademunt, J. (2016). Formation of metastable phases by spinodal decomposition. Nature Communications, 7, p. 13067 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2041-1723
Oriola, D.; Roth, S.; Dogterom, M.; Casademunt, J (2015). Formation of helical membrane tubes around microtubules by single-headed kinesin KIF1A. Nature Communications, 6, pp. 8025-1 - 8025-8 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2041-1723
Orlandi, J.G.; Soriano, J.; Alvarez-Lacalle, E.; Teller, S.; Casademunt, J. (2013). Noise focusing and the emergence of coherent activity in neuronal cultures. Nature Physics, 9, pp. 582 - 590 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2686 . ISSN: 1745-2473