Microscopic Active Particles with Embodied Intelligence

Project Information

MAPEI

Grant agreement ID: 101001267

DOI

10.3030/101001267

EC signature date 18 December 2020

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 992 636,00

EU contribution

€ 1 992 636,00

Coordinated by

GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (23)

Light, Matter, Action: Shining Light on Active Matter

Author(s): Marcel Rey, Giovanni Volpe, Giorgio Volpe
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 1188−1201, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00140

Playing with active matter

Author(s): Angelo Barona Balda, Aykut Argun, Agnese Callegari, Giovanni Volpe
Published in: American Journal of Physics, Issue 92, 2025, Page(s) 847-858, ISSN 0002-9505
Publisher: American Association of Physics Teachers
DOI: 10.1119/5.0125111

Nanoalignment by critical Casimir torques

Author(s): Gan Wang, Piotr Nowakowski, Nima Farahmand Bafi, Benjamin Midtvedt, Falko Schmidt, Agnese Callegari, Ruggero Verre, Mikael Käll, S. Dietrich, Svyatoslav Kondrat, Giovanni Volpe
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49220-1

Neural network training with highly incomplete medical datasets

Author(s): Yu-Wei Chang, Laura Natali, Oveis Jamialahmadi, Stefano Romeo, J. B. Pereira, Giovanni Volpe
Published in: Machine Learning-Science and Technology, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 035001, ISSN 2632-2153
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2632-2153/ac7b69

Microscopic geared metamachines

Author(s): Gan Wang, Marcel Rey, Antonio Ciarlo, Mahdi Shanei, Kunli Xiong, Giuseppe Pesce, Mikael Käll, Giovanni Volpe
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62869-6

Quantitative evaluation of methods to analyze motion changes in single-particle experiments

Author(s): Gorka Muñoz-Gil, Harshith Bachimanchi, Jesús Pineda, Benjamin Midtvedt, Gabriel Fernández-Fernández, Borja Requena, Yusef Ahsini, Solomon Asghar, Jaeyong Bae, Francisco J. Barrantes, Steen W. B. Bender, Clément Cabriel, J. Alberto Conejero, Marc Escoto, Xiaochen Feng, Rasched Haidari, Nikos S. Hatzakis, Zihan Huang, Ignacio Izeddin, Hawoong Jeong, Yuan Jiang, Jacob Kæstel-Hansen, Judith Min
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61949-x

Perspectives on adaptive dynamical systems

Author(s): Jakub Sawicki, Rico Berner, Sarah A. M. Loos, Mehrnaz Anvari, Rolf Bader, Wolfram Barfuss, Nicola Botta, Nuria Brede, Igor Franović, Daniel J. Gauthier, Sebastian Goldt, Aida Hajizadeh, Philipp Hövel, Omer Karin, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Christoph Miehl, Jan Mölter, Simona Olmi, Eckehard Schöll, Alireza Seif, Peter A. Tass, Giovanni Volpe, Serhiy Yanchuk, Jürgen Kurths
Published in: Chaos, Issue 33, 2023, Page(s) 071501, ISSN 1054-1500
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0147231

Optimal calibration of optical tweezers with arbitrary integration time and sampling frequencies: a general framework [Invited]

Author(s): Laura Pérez-García, Martin Selin, Antonio Ciarlo, Alessandro Magazzu, Giuseppe Pesce, Antonio Sasso, Giovanni Volpe, Isaac Pérez Castillo, Alejandro V. Arzola
Published in: Biomedical Optics Express, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 6442-6469, ISSN 2156-7085
Publisher: The Optical Society
DOI: 10.1364/boe.495468

Deep learning for optical tweezers

Author(s): Antonio Ciarlo, David Bronte Ciriza, Martin Selin, Onofrio M. Maragò, Antonio Sasso, Giuseppe Pesce, Giovanni Volpe, Mattias Goksör
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 3017-3035, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2024-0013

Single-shot self-supervised object detection in microscopy

Author(s): Benjamin Midtvedt; Jess Pineda; Fredrik Skrberg; Erik Olsn; Harshith Bachimanchi; Emelie Wesn; Elin K. Esbjrner; Erik Selander; Fredrik Hk; Daniel Midtvedt; Giovanni Volpe
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 7492, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35004-y

Cross-modality transformations in biological microscopy enabled by deep learning

Author(s): Dana Hassan, Jesús Domínguez, Benjamin Midtvedt, Henrik Klein Moberg, Jesús Pineda, Christoph Langhammer, Giovanni Volpe, Antoni Homs Corbera, Caroline B. Adiels
Published in: Advanced Photonics, Issue 6, 2024, ISSN 2577-5421
Publisher: SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
DOI: 10.1117/1.ap.6.6.064001

Diffusion models for super-resolution microscopy: a tutorial

Author(s): Harshith Bachimanchi, Giovanni Volpe
Published in: Journal of Physics: Photonics, Issue 7, 2025, Page(s) 013001, ISSN 2515-7647
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7647/ada101

Optical label-free microscopy characterization of dielectric nanoparticles

Author(s): Berenice García Rodríguez, Erik Olsén, Fredrik Skärberg, Giovanni Volpe, Fredrik Höök, Daniel Sundås Midtvedt
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 17, 2025, Page(s) 8336-8362, ISSN 2040-3364
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4nr03860f

Environmental memory boosts group formation of clueless individuals

Author(s): Cristvo S. Dias, Manish Trivedi, Giovanni Volpe, Nuno A. M. Arajo, Giorgio Volpe
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 7324, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43099-0

Crystallization and topology-induced dynamical heterogeneities in soft granular clusters

Author(s): Michał Bogdan, Jesus Pineda, Mihir Durve, Leon Jurkiewicz, Sauro Succi, Giovanni Volpe, Jan Guzowski
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 6, 2024, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.6.l032031

Directional flows using capillary assembly of photo-deformable colloidal particles at water-air interfaces

Author(s): David Urban, Marcel Rey, Antonio Ciarlo, Marie Friederike Schulte, Emiliano Descrovi, Giovanni Volpe
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67739-9

Roadmap for animate matter

Author(s): Giorgio Volpe, Nuno A M Araújo, Maria Guix, Mark Miodownik, Nicolas Martin, Laura Alvarez, Juliane Simmchen, Roberto Di Leonardo, Nicola Pellicciotta, Quentin Martinet, Jérémie Palacci, Wai Kit Ng, Dhruv Saxena, Riccardo Sapienza, Sara Nadine, João F Mano, Reza Mahdavi, Caroline Beck Adiels, Joe Forth, Christian Santangelo, Stefano Palagi, Ji Min Seok, Victoria A Webster-Wood, Shuhong Wang, Li
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 37, 2025, Page(s) 333501, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/adebd3

Bubble-propelled micromotors for ammonia generation

Author(s): Rebeca Ferrer Campos, Harshith Bachimanchi, Giovanni Volpe, Katherine Villa
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 15, 2023, Page(s) 15785-1579, ISSN 2040-3372
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3nr03804a

Microplankton life histories revealed by holographic microscopy and deep learning

Author(s): Harshith Bachimanchi; Benjamin Midtvedt; Daniel Midtvedt; Erik Selander; Giovanni Volpe
Published in: eLife, Issue 11, 2022, Page(s) e79760, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.79760

<i>Myxococcus xanthus</i> for active matter studies: a tutorial for its growth and potential applications

Author(s): Jesus Manuel Antúnez Domínguez, Laura Pérez García, Natsuko Rivera-Yoshida, Jasmin Di Franco, David Steiner, Alejandro V. Arzola, Mariana Benítez, Charlotte Hamngren Blomqvist, Roberto Cerbino, Caroline Beck Adiels, Giovanni Volpe
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 8602-8623, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d5sm00284b

Enhanced spatial clustering of single-molecule localizations with graph neural networks

Author(s): Jesús Pineda, Sergi Masó-Orriols, Montse Masoliver, Joan Bertran, Mattias Goksör, Giovanni Volpe, Carlo Manzo
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65557-7

Active matter in space

Author(s): Giorgio Volpe, Clemens Bechinger, Frank Cichos, Ramin Golestanian, Hartmut Löwen, Matthias Sperl, Giovanni Volpe
Published in: npj Microgravity, Issue 8, 2022, Page(s) 54, ISSN 2373-8065
Publisher: Springer-Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41526-022-00230-7

Geometric deep learning reveals the spatiotemporal features of microscopic motion

Author(s): Jesús Pineda; Benjamin Midtvedt; Harshith Bachimanchi; Sergio Noé; Daniel Midtvedt; Giovanni Volpe; Carlo Manzo
Published in: Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023, ISSN 2522-5839
Publisher: Springer-Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s42256-022-00595-0