Dmitry A. Fedosov received his Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia in 2002. After earning a MS degree in aerospace engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2004, he moved to Brown University, where he pursued a PhD degree in applied mathematics. Dmitry received a MS degree in applied mathematics in 2007 and his PhD in 2010. His thesis work was on multiscale modelling of blood flow and polymeric soft matter systems. His thesis work was recognized with the 2011 Nicholas Metropolis Award for outstanding doctoral thesis work in computational physics from the American Physical Society. After completing his PhD, Dmitry moved to Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany, and received the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Humboldt foundation to build up an independent research group. Currently, he continues to work as a group leader at Forschungszentrum Juelich with a research focus on non-equilibrium physics, including various complex systems in biophysics and active matter.
Read Dmitry Fedosov’s Emerging Investigator article: http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=10.1039/D3SM00004D
How do you feel about Soft Matter as a place to publish research on this topic?
Soft Matter is a good match for the research on active matter systems, as I feel it reaches out to the research community interested in this topic.
What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment and what do you find most challenging about your research?
I am fascinated by active non-equilibrium systems which can exhibit very complex structures, dynamics, and responses to various external conditions and manipulations. Even though diverse properties of these systems make their investigation very challenging, they also lead to great opportunities for finding novel physical mechanisms and for using these systems in many technological and biomedical applications.
In your opinion, what are the most important questions to be asked/answered in this field of research?
I think one of the most important questions is the emergence of complex structures, dynamics, and responses of active soft systems from interactions between their internal simple constituents. Can we explain, tune, and control the behaviour of active systems?
Can you share one piece of career-related advice or wisdom with other early career scientists?
Be persistent and follow your ideas and dreams no matter what difficulties you meet on the way. Eventually, it will pay off in some expected or unexpected way.
