Research group led by Dirk Aarts at the University of Oxford. We are interested in theoretical and experimental soft matter and biological research
Joined April 2012
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Aarts lab retweeted
23 Sep 2025
๐ Congratulations to Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman, Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, who received a prize for her oral presentation at the European Colloids Conference in Bristol! ๐
Read more ๐ chch.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-rees-zโฆ
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25 Jul 2025
Our lab is very pleased to have acheived Gold LEAF sustainable lab accreditation! ๐
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25 Jul 2025
Congratulations to our 'Rising Star' Clare! ๐
24 Jul 2025
Christ Church's Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman was recently invited to write a paper for the journal Applied Mathematical Modelling as part of a special issue entitled 'Prominent Contributions by Rising Stars in Applied Mathematics'. Congratulations to our rising star! โญ(1/2)
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1 May 2025
Congratulations Clare (Junior Research Fellow in our group) on this Knowledge Exchange award! ๐๐
1 May 2025
I'm delighted to have received a @IneosOxford Knowledge Exchange grant, for learning more about simulations to understand antimicrobial resistance with the lab of @chavaleriani! @ChCh_Oxford @OxfordChemistry ๐ฆ ๐งซ๐ฉโ๐ป
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30 Apr 2025
Congratulations @jackdutch123 and Dirk on this publication with Tim Nott on the wetting behaviour of biomolecular condensates! ๐งซ๐ฆ doi.org/10.1063/5.0253522 @OxfordChemistry @ChCh_Oxford
10 Apr 2025
My latest article was published last month in JCP with Tim Nott and Dirk Aarts. We show the hydrophobic nature of IDP condensates results in an effective repulsion with (hydrophilic) membrane surfaces, and an attraction to hydrophobic surfaces.
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Aarts lab retweeted
25 Apr 2025
Itโs not too late to submit an abstract for ECCo 2025 - the deadline is now extended to the 6th of May. Join us in Aston!
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8 Mar 2025
Congratulations to Clare and Dirk, and collaborators in the groups of Prof Chantal Valeriani @chavaleriani @unicomplutense and Prof Mark Miller @DurhamChemistry, on their paper comparing inverse methods for measuring inter-particle potentials! ๐๐ฌ๐งฎ doi.org/10.1063/5.0246890
5 Mar 2025
A joint paper on molecular dynamics authored by Christ Church's Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman and Professor Dirk Aarts together with teams from Madrid and Durham has been published in The Journal of Chemical Physics.
Learn all about the research here โก๏ธ chch.ox.ac.uk/news/christ-chโฆ
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23 Jan 2025
This week, the Aarts lab @OxfordChemistry had a group dinner @gusto_uk Nice food with nice people ๐๐๐
ALT Group picture at the restaurant
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21 Jan 2025
Dirk, Esme and Clare enjoyed great discussions last week about the colloid-polymer depletion interaction with Prof Remco Tuinier & Dr Max Martens at @TUeindhoven @TUe_ST ๐๐ญ๐ฌ๐ณ๐ฑ
ALT Dirk, Esme, Clare and Remco (left to right) at TU Eindhoven
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5 Nov 2024
Well done Clare (a Junior Research Fellow in our group) on the poster prize!! ๐๐
5 Nov 2024
Yesterday's Women in Chemistry @OxWiChem Day at @OxfordChemistry was a lovely event, showcasing work from across the department. I enjoyed sharing my work, for which I was delighted to receive the prize for the best Physical & Theoretical Chemistry poster! @ChCh_Oxford
ALT Clare by her poster entitled "Measuring depletion interactions"
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8 Oct 2024
First Aarts group meeting of the academic year - welcome to our 5 new Part II students! ๐งช๐ฅผ @OxfordChemistry @ChCh_Oxford
ALT Group photo in front of a fireplace
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31 Jul 2024
Our lab is pleased to be reaccredited with the Silver LEAF sustainability status! ๐ฅ๐ฟ @OxfordChemistry @oxfordenvsust @ChCh_Oxford
ALT Postdocs Jack and Clare with our new Silver LEAF certificate
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27 Jun 2024
Congrats to Lachlan & Dirk, with collaborators, on their article in @PhysRevE! Read about using machine learning to discover the dynamic laws of active matter, such as groups of cells, fish and birds ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฆ @chavaleriani @ChCh_Oxford @OxfordChemistry
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Aarts lab retweeted
15 Mar 2024
A great opportunity for early career colloid researchers!
14 Mar 2024
The early career colloid meeting 2024 will be held at UCL on the 20th-21st of June. Abstract submission and registration are now open! Further information can be found here: eccolloid.co.uk/ecco-2024/
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27 Feb 2024
Dr Jack Holland giving the Physical Chemistry @OxfordChemistry departmental Soft Matter Seminar today! The audience were educated on emergent phenomena of biological condensates ๐จโ๐ซ๐งซ๐ง @jackdutch123 @ChCh_Oxford
ALT Jack presenting a slide entitled 'How can we measure condensate surface tension?'
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Aarts lab retweeted
15 Feb 2024
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12 Jan 2024
If you're in town, see Dirk about to talk in Mexico, on g(r) โก๏ธu(r)โก๏ธฮผ @LIIWMSP @ChCh_Oxford
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15 Dec 2023
Congratulations to Clare for winning 'Guess the number of M&M's in the jar' at the PTCL @OxfordChemistry Christmas Party - all that practice counting colloidal particles paid off! ๐ก๐ฅณ
ALT Clare with a jar of M&M's
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22 Nov 2023
An editors' pick! โ
๏ธ Congratulations to Adam Stones & Dirk Aarts on their new paper, showing how to measure many-body effects in fluid structure ๐ฆ๐งฎ @OxfordChemistry @ChCh_Oxford pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/articleโฆ
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Aarts lab retweeted
21 Nov 2023
Proud to be involved in this. We showed (very) weak binding of multivalent cations to IDR -ve charges provides exquisite sensitivity of condensate properties to mM fluctuations in [cation]. Crucially, [Ca2 ] stabilised condensates comprising -vely charged proteins
Well done Michael and team!
Ion binding with charge inversion combined with screening modulates DEAD box helicase phase transitions: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/fullteโฆ
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