Active and living systems—microbial communities, cell collectives, and even swarms of microrobots—continuously generate chemical gradients, mechanical forces, and flows. These local processes couple dynamically to their surrounding environments—porous soils, viscoelastic fluids, biological tissues—creating reciprocal feedback loops: activity chemically and mechanically reshapes the environment, and the evolving environment, in turn, modulates the active system. Yet, despite decades of work in active matter physics, we lack the design principles needed to harness this coevolution largely due to two reasons: first, most studies remain limited to idealized settings that ignore real-world complexity, and second, we lack the tools to determine the  spatiotemporal evolution of the environment properties. My research addresses this challenge by integrating active matter physics, physicochemical hydrodynamics, and biology to uncover how activity, environment, and collective behavior coevolve. Unlocking these principles would transform our ability to design adaptive materials, engineer microbial communities, and program microrobotic systems for applications in biotechnology, environmental remediation, and human health. 

Below you'll find a list of my research interests and research projects that I have worked on