Professor @MIT_Physics @MIT
Joined November 2015
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Science is Curiosity on a Mission: It includes all of us who ask "why" and make it our mission to find out. These are the discoveries that move the country forward. The pursuit of ideas that seemed impossible until they weren’t. #CuriosityOnAMission
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“Curiosity is the force that transforms deadly cancers into treatable conditions… that turns fusion energy from a dream to a reality…that uncovers new ways to grow more food using less of every resource,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth. #CuriosityOnAMission
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Apr 30
Congratulations to Dr @yuchenchaoXD , my wonderful graduate student from @Harvard Applied Physics, who successfully defended today.
And of course, wowed everyone!
She will stay @MIT for a short postdoc before moving to @UChicago …
Very proud!!
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What happens when marine embryos are crowded instead of isolated?
They become materials.
Honored to write a @NaturePhysics News & Views on excitable living solids discovered by @FakhriLab and colleagues at @MIT 😀
N&V: rdcu.be/e5gLm
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41567-0…
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Feb 23
The saga of Living Chiral Crystals continues…
Excited to share our new @NaturePhysics paper ON Living Chiral Crystals 2.0!
nature.com/articles/s41567-0…
We show that living solids made of starfish embryos can self-organize into nonequilibrium states that generate mechanical work.
These active crystals break reciprocity and exhibit emergent modes impossible in equilibrium.
Amazing work by my group members, in collaboration with Jörn Dunkel's group @ScienceMIT.
rdcu.be/e15vd
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Feb 23
Check out this great News & Views article by @Viveknprakash:
nature.com/articles/s41567-0…
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Feb 17
I’m excited to share that I’ve been promoted to Full Professor of Physics at @MIT.
This milestone feels especially meaningful: I am the first Iranian woman to hold this position in physics at MIT. I carry my heritage with pride, especially in moments like this.
I’m deeply grateful to my students, postdocs, colleagues and mentors. This achievement reflects the community that challenges me, supports me, and elevates the work every day. The work continues: ambitious questions, curiosity-driven science and much still to discover.
Onward… to the questions we haven’t yet imagined!
Picture: latest Fakhri group meeting
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5 Nov 2025
Congratulations to my colleague, Mehran Kardar, who is the recipient of 2026 Lars Onsager Prize for his groundbreaking contributions to statistical physics.
@MIT @ScienceMIT @APSphysics
5 Nov 2025
Congratulations to our spring 2026 prizes and awards recipients. The winners were chosen by a panel of their peers for their outstanding contributions in #research, #education, and #PublicService.
Learn more about their award-winning work: tinyurl.com/4hnvndz8
ALT A dark blue background with pink and lighter blue ribbons through the center. The American Physical Society Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research is at the top with white text underneath that reads “Spring 2026 — APS Prizes and Awards.”
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14 Oct 2025
Life moves forward — never backward. Living systems consume energy, breaking time’s symmetry and staying far from equilibrium. That’s the hidden physics behind every heartbeat, every cell in motion, every act of becoming. @TEDxNewEngland
youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1Nyl7V…
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8 Oct 2025
Truly inspiring… “I set out to build beautiful things…”
Happy @NobelPrize week!
8 Oct 2025
“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.”
New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry.
In this interview we speak about his early life as a refugee in Jordan and the overwhelming draw of the beauty of chemistry: “I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems.”
Listen now:
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7 Oct 2025
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
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21 Aug 2025
Truly honored to celebrate Erwin Frey’s inspiring career at the Emergence & Self-Organization in Biological Systems conference this week.
Happy 65th, Erwin!
@PhysOfLifeLMU
esbs2025.physik.uni-muenchen…
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31 Jul 2025
Excited to be at the beautiful Kloster Abbey for the Intelligent Active Matter conference!
Looking forward to three days of talks & discussions.
Thanks to @PhysOfLifeLMU & Igor Aronson, for organizing & @templeton_fdn for supporting the meeting.
iam.physik.lmu.de
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29 May 2025
Such a privilege to meet Governor @maura_healey at @MIT OneMIT Commencement!
Huge thanks to @ErinAstro for the photo!
#MIT2025
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29 May 2025
Today (5-29-25) marks the last in a string of palindrome dates that began on May 20 (5-20-25) in the US. To mark the occasion, and in honor of the OneMIT Commencement ceremony, the Institute’s own Barry Duncan, a renowned palindrome poet and bookseller at the MIT Press Bookstore, penned for our collective enjoyment this entirely reversible ode to the Class of 2025 and our Commencement speaker.
ALT Poem titled “OneMIT Hank Green, Commencement Speaker:” 5-29-25. Nod, as MIT eyes order, adieus. New one, file: Wonder. (Ahs, now ohs.) H.G. is a hero. Jam? SciShow! (Ohs.) I: CS major, eh? A sigh show on. Shared, no? We: ‘Life, now ensue.’ I dared, rose – yet I'm sad – on 5-29-25.
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17 Apr 2025
Congratulations to Mehran Kardar of @MIT and Yoshiki Kuramoto of @kyotou_news on receiving the @IUPAP_physics Boltzmann Medal — the highest honor in #StatisticalPhysics 🏅
🔗 go.aps.org/4jCqbsR
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17 Apr 2025
Check out the @GC_CUNY/@phybiofunc symposium tomorrow on Information and Irreversibility itsatcuny.org/calendar/2025/… featuring @FakhriLab, my colleague John Bechhoefer, and yours truly!
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15 Apr 2025
A @TheScientistLLC news piece on our recent @NaturePhysics paper with @PhysOfLifeLMU.
the-scientist.com/round-cell…
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3 Apr 2025
The Hidden Order of Life: How Nature Breaks Symmetry with Nikta Fakhri @FakhriLab sco.lt/56SGJc youtube.com/watch?v=Tndh_Hb6…
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