Haoran Xu
Education and academic appointments
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2021 – present
Hong Kong, China
- Postdoctoral Fellow
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015 – 2020
Hong Kong, China
- Ph.D. in Physics
University of Science and Technology of China 2011 - 2015
Anhui, China
- B.S. in Physics
Research interests
Biophysics; Soft matter physics; Living active matter; Microbiology
Experimental Aspects
– Self-organization and pattern formation in living active matter
– Autonomous motion in living active solids and active nematics
– Mechanical/chemical signaling and synchronization in living systems
Numerical Simulations
– Fluid dynamics with partial differential equations
– Active matter motion with Langevin equations
Publications
[7] Self-enhanced mobility enables vortex pattern formation in living matter
Haoran Xu, Yilin Wu.
Nature (2024). [PDF];
[6] Geometrical control of interface patterning underlies active matter invasion
Haoran Xu, Mehrana R Nejad, Julia Mary Yeomans, Yilin Wu.
PNAS (2023). [PDF];
[5] Autonomous waves and global motion modes in elastic active solids
Haoran Xu, Yulu Huang, Rui Zhang, Yilin Wu .
Nature Physics (2023). [PDF];
[4] Self-organization of swimmers drives long-range fluid transport in bacterial colonies
Haoran Xu, Justas Dauparas, Debasish Das, Eric Lauga, Yilin Wu.
Nature Communications (2019).
[PDF]; NSFC News [Link]; Nature Research Microbiology Community Blog [Link]
[3] Active bulging promotes biofilm formation in a bacterial swarm
Siyu Liu, Ye Li, Haoran Xu, Daniel B. Kearns, Yilin Wu.
bioXiv (2022). [PDF];
[2] Self-organized canals enable long range directed material transport in bacterial communities
Ye Li, Shiqi Liu, Yingdan Zhang, Zi Jing Seng, Haoran Xu, Liang Yang, Yilin Wu.
Elife (2022). [PDF];
[1] Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation
Wong, Gerard CL, et al.
Physical Biology (2021). [PDF];
Conferences and Presentations
2024 Conference of Soft Matter and Biophysics, Shanxi, China Mar 2024
Large-scale pattern formation in active fluids
2024 APS March Meeting, Minneapolis, USA Mar 2024
Multiscale ordering and vortex pattern formation in living matter
Seminar, School of Science and Engineering, CUHK-Shenzhen, China Jan 2024
Emergent order in living active matter
Workshop on Soft Matter and Biophysics, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, China Jan 2024
Autonomous waves and global motion modes in living active solids
Seminar, Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, China Oct 2023
Self-organization of living active matter
StatPhys28 Satellite Meeting 2023, HKBU, Hong Kong Aug 2023
Active matter invasion and morphogenesis
International Workshop on Biophysics and Soft Matter, CityU, Hong Kong May 2023
Autonomous waves and global motion modes in living active solids
2023 APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, USA Mar 2023
Autonomous waves and global motion modes in living active solids
Seminar in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Oct 2020
Collective Motion of Active Matter in Confinement
Physics Student Conference, Department of Physics, CUHK, Hong Kong Sept 2020
Collective motion of active matter in confinements
Seminar, Department of Physics, CUHK, Hong Kong Jul 2020
Collective motion in bacterial colonies
2020 APS March Meeting, Denver, USA Mar 2020
Self-organization of motile rings and long-range transport in bacterial communities
2018 CPS Fall Meeting, Dalian, China Sept 2018
Self-organization of motile rings and long-range transport in bacterial communities
2018 Joint Annual Conference of Physical Societies, Macau Jul 2018
Self-organization of motile rings and long-range transport in bacterial communities
Posters
2024 APS March Meeting, Minneapolis, USA Mar 2024
Active matter invasion and morphogenesis
New Perspectives in Active Systems, MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany Apr 2023
Geometrical control of interface patterning underlies active matter invasion
2016 APS March Meeting, Baltimore, USA Mar 2016
Collective motion in Proteus mirabilis swarms
Honors and Awards
CN Yang Scholarship, CUHK 2020
Global Young Scientists Summit, Singapore 2020
The Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Exceptional Prize 2014
Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling, First prize 2013
Mentoring
Student Mentor, Youhan Xu (Graduate, CUHK) 2023 – present
Student Mentor, Zheyi Wang (Graduate, CUHK) 2022 – present
Physics Laboratory II (Teaching Assistant) 2017 – 2019
Physics Laboratory I (Teaching Assistant) 2015 – 2017