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ISMC 2026 @ismc2026.bsky.social ISMC 2026 · International Soft Matter Conference
Goa · May 25–29, 2026
Bringing together the global soft-matter community 🌍
James Gilchrist (Gilchrist Lab) @gilchristlab.bsky.social Laboratory for Particle Mixing and Self-Organization, Lehigh University: particles, fluids, self-assembly, rheology, coatings. #InclusionMatters. he/him.
https://www.gilchristlab.info, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesgilchristphd
Prof. Katie Whitehead @kwhitehead.bsky.social Drug delivery scientist, professor, innovator, mother, gardener, SciComm fanatic. TED talk http://bit.ly/3zjICfe. She/her. BLM 🏳️🌈♿️ supporter.
Lab: http://whitehead.cheme.cmu.edu
Photo: human milk!
Lwalker @lwalkercems.bsky.social Opinions are my own.
Roberto Cerbino @cerbino.bsky.social Soft matter and biophysics @univie.ac.at. Born in Italy. Welcomed by Austria. On Bluesky to find another Twitter now that Twitter is no more.
Gwynn Elfring @gelfring.bsky.social Associate Professor
University of British Columbia 🇨🇦🇳🇱🇲🇽
fluid mechanics, soft (active) matter, complex fluids
Maria Southall @mgiannakou.bsky.social Executive Editor, Royal Society of Chemistry
Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
Softbites @softbites.bsky.social Softbites brings you digestible summaries of the latest #research in #softmatter🔬#scicomm
SoftBio Colloids Lab @softbiocol.bsky.social Soft BioColloids Lab @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social
Led by @lauraal.bsky.social
Out-of-equilibrium soft matter, synthetic cells and microgravity
https://softbiocoll.com
Ryan Poling-Skutvik @rpslab.bsky.social Associate Professor | Chemical Engineering and Physics | University of Rhode Island | Responsive, multifunctional soft materials 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
https://web.uri.edu/soft-matter-lab/
Takashi Nakanishi @pi-liquids.bsky.social Materials Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Polymers, Functional Molecular Liquids (FMLs), Functional Molecular Gels (FMGs)
https://www.nims.go.jp/funct_mol_g/
Associate Editor of Responsive Materials; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/28348966
Matthew E. Helgeson @professor-meh.bsky.social Professor and John E. Myers Vice Chair of Chemical Engineering at UCSB. My lab enables engineering control of sustainable & exceptional squishy materials using high-throughput experimentation and ML/AI. Opinions and obscure pop culture references my own.
Jacinta Conrad @jcconrad.bsky.social Soft matter physicist; professor of chemical engineering. Drawing, guitar, hiking, reading, cooking, and a miniature Aussie. She/her.
Samanvaya Srivastava @samanvaya.bsky.social Associate professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA. Interested in all polymer things.
Reza Foudazi @rezafoudazi.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma | PI of SMaRT lab for research on self-assembly, polymers, rheology and colloid & interface science.
Pat Doyle @psdoylemit.bsky.social Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT | soft matter | polymer physics | microfluidics |entrepreneur | running enthusiast
doylegroup.mit.edu
Driscoll Lab @driscollphysics.bsky.social The Driscoll lab is an experimental physics lab at Northwestern University; our research lies at the junction between soft-matter physics and fluid dynamics.
Brettmann Lab @brettmannlab.bsky.social PI: Blair Brettmann, Chemical and biomolecular engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech
Babak Vajdi Hokmabad @babakvh.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at UC Berkeley
Active soft matter, Fluid mechanics, Biophysics.
https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=QLNh8EwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Laure Kayser @laurekayser.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at the University of Delaware - fan of polymers, PEDOT:PSS, bioelectronics, gardening, foraging, fancy food, and birds.
Emily Davidson @cemilyd.bsky.social Asst Prof CBE at Princeton. Polymers, liquid crystals, 3D printing, sustainability, hiking, gardening, cycling, and parenting. Mom to two small humans and one large canine.
Jessica Schiffman @schiffmanlab.bsky.social ❤️ materials, microbes, polymers
Professor, UMass Amherst https://schiffmanlab.org/
Deputy Editor, ACS Applied Engineering Materials
https://pubs.acs.org/journal/aaemdr
whitney loo @whitneysloo.bsky.social assistant professor chemical engineering UW-Madison | all things polymers & electronic music | she/her 🌈
Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social Distinguished Professor | U. of Minnesota | MacArthur Fellow | Director CPEC | Co-founder Sironix, Carba.com, & Lakril Technologies | Advisor ActivatedLLC | ❤️✌🏽🍃♻️ #mspsky
Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social Professor of Mathematics; Chemical & Biological Engineering, UW-Madison. I dig biological fluid dynamics, soft matter physics, and numerical methods. APS DSOFT Vice Chair. Vijayanagara (GMT Games).
https://people.math.wisc.edu/~spagnolie/
Alban Sauret @albansauret.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMD College Park, Department of Mechanical Engineering - playing with fluids, grains, powders and droplets
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social ChemE Associate Professor with many, many microscopes | Hypeman for CWRU | #ColloidsRCool | wirthlab.org | he/him | justice is what love looks like in public | views expressed are my own
Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social Cell-mimetic active systems, bioinspired materials.
Associate Professor at Uni Bordeaux
Group leader of @softbiocol.bsky.social (CRPP, CNRS)
Previously ETH Zurich
Website: https://www.softbiocoll.com/
Rugby player (she/her)
Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social Faculty member at Tel Aviv University. Leading theoretical and computational research in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of soft matter. Mainly mechanical metamaterials, geometry, active matter, stochastic processes https://shokef.tau.ac.il
Abhinendra Singh @asingh-case.bsky.social Soft Matter Physicist. Enthusiastic about numerical simulations. Interested amorphous materials, rheology, complex fluids, simulations, dad. he/him
Spakowitz Lab @aspakowitz.bsky.social https://web.stanford.edu/~ajspakow/
polymer physics | biophysics | theory and simulation
Stanford University
Manoj Prasad @prasad15.bsky.social Soft Matter |Biofilms |Bioremediation |Microfluidics |Single Molecule |Microscopy |Electrokinetics
Soft Matter and Biological Physics (TU Eindhoven) @smb.phys.tue.nl We are the Soft Matter and Biological Physics group at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com Nature Communications is an open access journal publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical, chemical, clinical, social, and Earth sciences.
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Somaparna Ghosh @somaparna.bsky.social PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering - IIT Bombay || Senior Editor @Commsearth.nature.com & Consulting Editor @Commssustain.nature.com || Handling papers in #Biogeochemistry, #PlasticPollution, #ContaminantsRemoval, and #SoilScience.
She/her
Anjali Sharma @anjalisharma.bsky.social Senior Editor at Nature Communications, https://www.nature.com/ncomms/
Handling soft matter physics.
#SoftMatterPhysics
Views are my own!
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