Dr. Andrej Vilfan

Group leader
Scientist

Group: Synthetic active matter
Living Matter Physics
+49 551 5176-183
+49 551 5176-102

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My research interests include the physics of biological and artificial cilia, fluid dynamics in biology, collective phenomena in magnetic colloidal systems and the physics of motor proteins.

Selected publications

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D. Hickey, A. Vilfan and R. Golestanian

Ciliary chemosensitivity is enhanced by cilium geometry and motility

eLife 10, e66322 (2021)

B. Nasouri, A. Vilfan and R. Golestanian

Minimum dissipation theorem for microswimmers

Phys. Rev. Lett., 126, 034503 (2021)

T. Strübing, A. Khosravanizadeh, A. Vilfan, E. Bodenschatz, R. Golestanian and I. Guido

Wrinkling instability in 3D active nematics

Nano Letters (2020)

H. Massana-Cid, A. Ortiz-Ambriz, A. Vilfan and P. Tierno

Emergent collective colloidal currents generated via exchange dynamics in a broken dimer state

Sci. Adv. 6, eaaz2257 (2020).

R. R. Ferreira, H. Fukui, R. Chow, A. Vilfan and J. Vermot

The cilium as a force sensor: myth versus reality

J. Cell Sci. 132, jcs213496 (2019)

A. Vilfan, S. Subramani, E. Bodenschatz, R. Golestanian and I. Guido

Flagella-like beating of a single microtubule

Nano Lett. 19, 53359-3363 (2019)

R. R. Ferreira, A. Vilfan, F. Jülicher, W. Supatto and J. Vermot

Physical limits of flow sensing in the left-right organizer

eLife 6, e25078 (2017)

B. Nitzsche, E. Dudek, L. Hajdo, A. A. Kasprzak, A. Vilfan and S. Diez

Working stroke of the kinesin-14, ncd, comprises two substeps of different direction

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113, E6582–E6589 (2016).

A. Vilfan

Optimal shapes of surface slip driven self-propelled microswimmers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128105 (2012)

N. Osterman and A. Vilfan

Finding the ciliary beating pattern with optimal efficiency

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 15727-15732 (2011)

M. Vilfan, A. Potočnik, B. Kavčič, N. Osterman, I. Poberaj, A. Vilfan and D. Babič

Self-assembled artificial cilia

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 1844-1847 (2010)

A. Vilfan and F. Jülicher

Hydrodynamic flow patterns and synchronization of beating cilia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 058102 (2006)