Soft and Biological Matter

This group works in soft condensed matter physics with a direct application to biological systems, aiming at a far-reaching impact in science and society. The research developed has a strong focus on cellular morphology and movement, tissue irrigation, and tumor and vessel growth. Within the topic of vessel growth, we explore the consequences of physical mechanisms in the development of complex processes in both health and disease such as organogenesis, wound healing, inflammation, endometriosis or diabetes. We collaborate with several multidisciplinary international teams and bring together the know-how of researchers with proven expertise in theoretical, computational and experimental tasks.

Current projects

• COST Action: CA15214 - An integrative action for multidisciplinary studies on cellular structural networks
• Modeling Angiogenesis in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus - integrating experimental and theoretical approaches
• Cost Action: CA17139 - European Topology Interdisciplinary Action

Previous projects

• Physical Modelling of Tumours - Understanding the metastasis mechanism
• Angiogenesis in diabetic retinopathy – Integrating experiments and modeling
• The nature of the protein folding process

Recent Publications

Papers

International Journals

1 - Lattice determination of the Batalin-Vilkovisky function and the strong running interaction
AC Aguilar, N Brito, MN Ferreira, J Papavassiliou, O Oliveira, PJ Silva
Phys. Lett. B 858, 139054 (2024)

2 - Sunspots Identification Through Mathematical Morphology
S Bourgeois, T Barata, R Erdélyi, R Gafeira, O Oliveira
Sol. Phys. 299(2), 10 (2024)

3 - Four Gluon Vertex from Lattice QCD
M. Colaço, O. Oliveira, Paulo J. Silva
Phys. Rev. D 109 (7), 074502 (2024)

4 - TrajPy: empowering feature engineering for trajectory analysis across domains
M Moreira-Soares, E Mossmann, RDM Travasso, JR Bordin
Bioinform. Adv. 4(1), vbae026 (2024)

5 - Deconfinement, center symmetry and the ghost propagator in Landau gauge pure SU(3) Yang-Mills theory
V. Paiva, P.J. Silva, O. Oliveira
J. High Energy Phys. 5, 164 (2024)

6 - High-refractive-index materials screening from machine learning and ab initio methods
Pedro J.M.A. Carriço, Márcio Ferreira, Tiago F.T. Cerqueira, Fernando Nogueira, Pedro Borlido
Phys. Rev. Mater. 8, 015201 (2024)

7 - E-cadherin variants associated with oral facial clefts trigger aberrant cell motility in a REG1A-dependent manner
J. Pereira, S. Melo, R.M. Ferreira, P. Carneiro, V.T. Yang, A.F. Maia, J. Carvalho, C. Figueiredo, J.C. Machado, E. Morais-de-Sá, R. Seruca, J. Figueiredo
Cell Commun. Signal. 22 (1), 152 (2024)

8 - Topology in soft and biological matter
L Tubina, R. Travasso et al.
Phys. Rep. 1075, 1-137 (2024)

9 - The Automatic Identification and Tracking of Coronal Flux Ropes -- Part II: New Mathematical Morphology-based Flux Rope Extraction Method and Deflection Analysis
A. Wagner, S. Bourgeois, E. Kilpua, R. Sarkar, D. Price, A. Kumari, J. Pomoell, S. Poedts, T. Barata, R. Erdélyi, O. Oliveira, R. Gafeira
Astron. Astrophys. (2024)

10 - The automatic identification and tracking of coronal flux ropes II. New mathematical morphology-based flux rope extraction method and deflection analysis
A. Wagner, S. Bourgeois, EKJ Kilpua, R. Sarkar, D.J. Price, A. Kumari, J. Pomoell, S. Poedts, T. Barata, R. Erdélyi, O. Oliveira, R. Gafeira
Astron. Astrophys. 683, A39 (2024)

Portuguese Journals

11 - Quarenta anos de Olimpíadas de Física
F. Nogueira
Gazeta de Física 47(2), 34 (2024)

Communications

Oral

12 - Atividades experimentais com supercondensadores
José António Paixão, Fernando Nogueira
5ª Conferência de Física de Países de Língua Portuguesa (2024)

13 - Recursos computacionais para o ensino de Física da Matéria Condensada
José António Paixão, Fernando Nogueira
5ª Conferência de Física de Países de Língua Portuguesa (2024)

Poster

14 - Numeric local pseudopotentials through evolutionary optimisation
Fernando Nogueira, Tiago Cerqueira
CMD31-General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society (2024)

15 - High-throughput search of B-C-X superconductors
Pedro Borlido, Tiago F.T. Cerqueira, Fernando Nogueira
CMD31-General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society (2024)