Nikta Fakhri
Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Poland
Biography
Nikta Fakhri joined the MIT Physics Department as an Assistant Professor in January 2015. She completed her undergraduate degree at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and her PhD at Rice University. She was a Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellow at Georg-August-Universistät in Göttingen, Germany before joining MIT.
Research Interest
Active processes in both living and non-living matter create a novel class of non-equilibrium materials composed of many interacting parts that individually consume energy and collectively generate motion or mechanical stresses. Active systems exhibit a wealth of intriguing properties, including anomalous fluctuations, non-equilibrium phase transitions, pattern formation on mesoscopic scales and unusual mechanical and rheological properties. In biology, active systems span a large range of length scales, from molecules to the cytoskeleton of individual cells, to tissues, whole organisms and their collective ensembles.
