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Efe Ilker
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
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I am a theoretical physicist at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. Following my PhD in Istanbul on statistical physics, I started working on biophysics problems and moved to US, then to France and recently to Germany.
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Biological systems exhibit a cascade of emergent order propagating from molecular scales to the organism level and ecosystems. I study a broad spectrum of biophysical problems from mesoscale processes to ecosystems at the interface of biology, statistical physics, and soft-matter theory with a multidisciplinary collaboration network.
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Some projects and research interests:
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Metabolism and morphogenesis, tissue mechanics and controlled pattern formation
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Bioenergetics, dynamics and evolution of biomolecular networks
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Control of stochastic biological processes at various scales
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Phase separation and transport properties in active (biological) mixtures