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David Saintillan

University of San Diego · US
Area of research
Condensed Matter Physics · Biomedical Engineering
Research interest
Research interests include Micro and Nano Robotics, Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies, Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, and Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization.
h-index
32
citations
4,793
works
194
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

The 2025 motile active matter roadmap
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 2025cited by 28position: middledoi
Euchromatin Activity Enhances Segregation and Compaction of Heterochromatin in the Cell Nucleus
Physical Review X 2022cited by 23position: middledoi
Flexible filaments buckle into helicoidal shapes in strong compressional flows
Nature Physics 2020cited by 65position: middledoi
Spontaneous oscillations, beating patterns, and hydrodynamics of active microfilaments
Physical Review Fluids 2019cited by 66position: lastdoi
Extensile motor activity drives coherent motions in a model of interphase chromatin
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018cited by 145position: firstdoi
Morphological transitions of elastic filaments in shear flow
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018cited by 90position: middledoi
Rheology of Active Fluids
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 2017cited by 305position: firstdoi
Emergent vortices in populations of colloidal rollers
Nature Communications 2015cited by 284position: middledoi
On the distribution and swim pressure of run-and-tumble particles in confinement
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2015cited by 85position: lastdoi
Bubble-Propelled Micromotors for Enhanced Transport of Passive Tracers
Langmuir 2014cited by 151position: middledoi
Theory of Active Suspensions
Biological and medical physics, biomedical engineering 2014cited by 84position: firstdoi
Active suspensions and their nonlinear models
Comptes Rendus Physique 2013cited by 266position: firstdoi
Instabilities and nonlinear dynamics of concentrated active suspensions
Physics of Fluids 2013cited by 101position: lastdoi

Grants

Collaborative Research: DMS/NIGMS2: Discovering the Principles of Active Self-Organization in the Differentiating Genome Using Multi-Scale Modeling and In-Vivo Experiments
NSF2153520$505,7592022–2026PIRePORTER
NSF-BSF: From microscopic propulsion to macroscale dynamics: Active particle transport in complex environments
NSF1934199$303,2872019–2023PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Interphase Chromatin as a Complex Active Fluid: Experiments and Microscopic to Mesoscopic Modeling
NSF1762566$300,0002018–2022PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Electrorotational fluid instabilities
NSF1705377$199,9322017–2021PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: FRG: Understanding and Controlling Active Fluids through Modeling, Simulation, and Experiment
NSF1463965$187,5002015–2018PIRePORTER
CAREER: Electrokinetic Transport of Fluid, Particles and Macromolecules through Nanochannels and Nanopores
NSF1532652$206,2572014–2017PIRePORTER
Travel support for students and young researchers to attend "Flowing Soft Matter: Bridging the Gap Between Statistical Physics and Fluid Mechanics," Udine, Italy, 6/30/14 - 7/4/14
NSF1440106$20,0002014–2014PIRePORTER
CAREER: Electrokinetic Transport of Fluid, Particles and Macromolecules through Nanochannels and Nanopores
NSF1150590$407,7522012–2015PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: The Analysis and Simulation of Biologically Active Suspensions
NSF0920931$290,4032009–2012PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Michael Shelley · New York University5 papers (2013–2022)Brato Chakrabarti · Tata Institute of Fundamental Research3 papers (2018–2020) · 2 papers (2018–2020)Alexandra Zidovska · New York University2 papers (2018–2022)Barath Ezhilan · University of California San Diego2 papers (2013–2015)Yanan Liu · Shandong University2 papers (2018–2020) · 2 papers (2018–2020)Jahir Orozco · Universidad de Antioquia1 papers (2014–2014)Wen Yan · California Institute of Technology1 papers (2022–2022)Denis Bartolo · Université Claude Bernard Lyon 11 papers (2015–2015)Debasish Das · Tezpur University1 papers (2015–2015)Wei Gao · Songjiang District Central Hospital1 papers (2014–2014)Charles Savoie · Université Claude Bernard Lyon 11 papers (2015–2015) · 1 papers (2022–2022)Joseph Wang · Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering University of California San Diego La Jolla California USA1 papers (2014–2014)Roberto Alonso-Matilla · University of Minnesota1 papers (2015–2015)Beatriz Jurado‐Sánchez · Universidad de Alcalá1 papers (2014–2014)Jean-Baptiste Caussin · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique1 papers (2015–2015)Gregory LeClaire Wagner · Tellus Institute1 papers (2014–2014) · 1 papers (2015–2015)