News post + new ticker + new profile + publications + people edit

config/_default/params.yaml

@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ ticker:
   items:
     - text: "📢 Registration open: Bombannes Summer School"
       url: "/event/2026-02-09-PCIG/"
-    - text: "🎉 Congratulations New Job"
-      url: "/post/2026/26-01-13-nikos-job/"
+    - text: "🎉 Congratulations on Graduation"
+      url: "/post/2026/26-02-16-Eva_graduation/"
     - text: "🚨 New Project alert"
       url: "/project/25-11-01-mechanosynth/"
       newtab: true

content/authors/Alessia/_index.md

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ email: ''
 # Organizational groups that you belong to (for People widget)
 #   Set this to `[]` or comment out if you are not using People widget.
 user_groups:
-  - Visitors
+  - Past Visitors
 ---
 
 <div style="text-align: justify;">

content/authors/Carlo/_index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+---
+# Display name
+title: Carlo Marietti
+
+# Full name (for SEO)
+first_name: Carlo
+last_name: Marietti
+
+# Username (this should match the folder name)
+authors:
+  - Carlo
+
+# Is this the primary user of the site?
+superuser: false
+
+# Role/position
+role: MSc Student (Feb'26-Aug'26)
+
+# Organizations/Affiliations
+organizations:
+  - name: University of Milan (Italy)
+    url: 'https://www.unipd.it/en/'
+
+# Short bio (displayed in user profile at end of posts)
+bio: My research interests include Soft Matter Physics, lasers \& Data Analysis.
+
+interests:
+  - Soft Matter Physics
+  - Lasers
+  - Data Analysis
+
+education:
+  courses:
+    - course: BSc in Physics
+      institution: University of Milan (Italy)
+      year: 2024
+  #  - course: BSc in Chemistry
+  #    institution: University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)
+  #    year: 2018
+
+# Social/Academic Networking
+# For available icons, see: https://docs.hugoblox.com/getting-started/page-builder/#icons
+#   For an email link, use "fas" icon pack, "envelope" icon, and a link in the
+#   form "mailto:your-email@example.com" or "#contact" for contact widget.
+social:
+  - icon: envelope
+    icon_pack: fas
+    link: 'mailto:carlo.marietti@univie.ac.at'
+  #- icon: linkedin
+  #  icon_pack: fab
+  #  link: 'linkedin.com/in/andrea-de-marco-a111191ab'
+  #- icon: google-scholar
+  #  icon_pack: ai
+  #  link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FcPIaxgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
+# Link to a PDF of your resume/CV from the About widget.
+# To enable, copy your resume/CV to `static/files/cv.pdf` and uncomment the lines below.
+# - icon: cv
+#   icon_pack: ai
+#   link: files/cv.pdf
+
+# Enter email to display Gravatar (if Gravatar enabled in Config)
+email: ''
+
+# Organizational groups that you belong to (for People widget)
+#   Set this to `[]` or comment out if you are not using People widget.
+user_groups:
+  - Visitors
+---
+
+<div style="text-align: justify;">
+
+I am a Physics Master student from the University of Milan, Italy. I am doing my internship and thesis in **[Roberto's]({{< relref "/authors/admin/_index.md" >}})** group focusing on probing out-of-equilibrium fluctuations of colloidal suspensions. My research experience includes imaging diffusiophoretic convective instabilities in colloidal suspensions.
+
+</div>
+

content/authors/Concetta/_index.md

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ email: ''
 # Organizational groups that you belong to (for People widget)
 #   Set this to `[]` or comment out if you are not using People widget.
 user_groups:
-  - Visitors
+  - Past Visitors
 ---
 <div style="text-align: justify;">
 

content/authors/David/_index.md

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ email: ''
 # Organizational groups that you belong to (for People widget)
 #   Set this to `[]` or comment out if you are not using People widget.
 user_groups:
-  - Interns
+  - Past Visitors
 ---
 <div style="text-align: justify;">
 

content/authors/Eva/_index.md

@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ email: ''
 # Organizational groups that you belong to (for People widget)
 #   Set this to `[]` or comment out if you are not using People widget.
 user_groups:
-  - Grad Students
+  - Alumni
 ---
 <div style="text-align: justify;">
 
-I am a visiting student from the University of Zagreb, Croatia where I am in my final year of a 5-year Master's course in Physics. I am doing my master thesis in **[Roberto's]({{< relref "/authors/admin/_index.md" >}})** research group focusing on oscillatory recovery rheology of soft matter. I have previous research experience in fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and cold atom physics.
+I was a visiting student from the University of Zagreb, Croatia where I was in my final year of a 5-year Master's course in Physics. I was doing my master thesis in **[Roberto's]({{< relref "/authors/admin/_index.md" >}})** research group focusing on oscillatory recovery rheology of soft matter. I have previous research experience in fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and cold atom physics.
 
 </div>

content/authors/Franz/_index.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ education:
   courses:
     - course: BSc in Physics
       institution: University of Vienna
-      year: 
+      year: 2026
   #  - course: BSc in Chemistry
   #    institution: University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)
   #    year: 2018
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ email: ''
 # Organizational groups that you belong to (for People widget)
 #   Set this to `[]` or comment out if you are not using People widget.
 user_groups:
-  - Undergrad students
+  - Alumni
 ---
 <div style="text-align: justify;">
 

content/authors/Mohandas/_index.md

@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ social:
   - icon: envelope
     icon_pack: fas
     link: 'mailto:mohandas.mohandas@univie.ac.at'
-  - icon: x-twitter
-    icon_pack: fab
-    link: https://x.com/mohandas8488
+  #- icon: x-twitter
+  #  icon_pack: fab
+  #  link: https://x.com/mohandas8488
   - icon: google-scholar
     icon_pack: ai
     link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ybIPZA8AAAAJ&hl=en

content/authors/Norma/_index.md

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ email: ''
 # Organizational groups that you belong to (for People widget)
 #   Set this to `[]` or comment out if you are not using People widget.
 user_groups:
-  - Visitors
+  - Past Visitors
 ---
 <div style="text-align: justify;">
 

content/authors/Oliver/_index.md

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ email: ''
 # Organizational groups that you belong to (for People widget)
 #   Set this to `[]` or comment out if you are not using People widget.
 user_groups:
-  - Interns
+  - Past Visitors
 ---
 <div style="text-align: justify;">
 

content/authors/Vinay/_index.md

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ email: ''
 # Organizational groups that you belong to (for People widget)
 #   Set this to `[]` or comment out if you are not using People widget.
 user_groups:
-  - Visitors
+  - Past Visitors
 ---
 <div style="text-align: justify;">
 

content/people/index.md

@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@ sections:
           - Principal Investigator
           - Researchers
           - Grad Students
+          - Visitors
           - Undergrad students
           - Administration
-          - Interns
-          - Visitors
           - Alumni
+          - Interns
+          - Past Visitors
       sort_by: Params.role
       sort_ascending: false
     design:

content/post/2025/25-03-28-internship/index.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ text-align: justify
 <!--more-->
 **About the Internship**
 
-The [Vienna Doctoral School in Physics](https://vds-physics.univie.ac.at/?no_cache=1) offers selected MSc students from inside and outside of Austria to be immersed in real world research with experts in their field for 2-6 months between 1 September 2025 and 31 August 2026.
+The [Vienna Doctoral School in Physics](https://vds-physics.univie.ac.at/?no_cache=1) offers select MSc students from inside and outside of Austria to be immersed in real world research with experts in their field for 2-6 months between 1 September 2025 and 31 August 2026.
 
 Find more details [here](https://vds-physics.univie.ac.at/open-calls/vdsp-internships/).
 

content/post/2025/25-04-02-Eva_welcome/index.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Welcome to our new MSc student!
 summary: Eva Hudec joins us for her Master's thesis.
 authors:
-  - Mohandas
+#  - Mohandas
 date: 2025-04-02
 image:
   placement: 1

content/post/2025/25-05-19-welcome_students/index.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Welcome to our new students!
 summary: Four new students join us for pursuing their thesis.
 authors:
-  - Mohandas
+#  - Mohandas
 date: 2025-05-19
 image:
   placement: 1

content/post/2025/25-06-05-fabian_graduation/index.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Congratulations on a Successful Thesis Defense!
 summary: Fabian defends his Master's thesis
 authors:
-  - Mohandas
+#  - Mohandas
 date: 2025-06-05
 image:
   placement: 1

content/post/2026/26-01-16-Roberto_PCIG/index.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: 📢 Roberto joins PCIG!
 summary: PCIG brings together experts who work the field of Particle Characterisation. <span style="color:#4284EB;">Read more</span>.
 authors:
-  - Mohandas
+#  - Mohandas
 date: 2026-01-16
 image:
   placement: 1

content/post/2026/26-02-16-Eva_graduation/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+---
+title: 🎉 Congratulations on a Successful Thesis Defense!
+summary: Eva defends her Master's thesis
+authors:
+#  - Mohandas
+date: 2026-02-16
+image:
+  placement: 1
+  caption: 'Graduation ceremony at University of Zagreb with Roberto and Prof. Davor Horvatić (Image credit: Eva)'
+  focal_point: 'smart'
+  preview_only: false
+  #alt_text: An optional description of the image for screen readers.
+# Show this page in the Featured widget?
+featured: false
+text-align: justify
+---
+
+<!--more-->
+<div style="text-align: justify;">
+
+Congratulations to our Master’s student, [Eva Hudec]({{< relref "/authors/Eva/_index.md" >}}), on successfully defending her thesis. It has been a great pleasure to work with her and to accompany her throughout this important milestone. We sincerely appreciate her dedication, enthusiasm, and contributions, and we wish her all the best and much success in her future endeavors.
+
+</div>
+
+<div style="height: 50px;"></div>
+
+<div style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 20px; border-radius: 6px;text-align: justify;">
+
+<strong>Connecting Microscopic Dynamics, Structural Rearrangements and Rheological Properties in Soft Materials</strong>
+
+<strong>*Abstract*</strong>
+
+When subjected to mechanical loading, yield-stress materials exhibit complex deformation behaviors that are exploited in numerous scientific and industrial applications. Yet, the microscopic mechanisms governing yielding remain incompletely understood. In particular, it is unclear whether the onset of microscopic irreversibility coincides with conventional macroscopic yield criteria.
+
+This thesis focuses on the relationship between microscopic dynamics and macroscopic rheological response in two Carbopol microgel systems using phase-synchronized echo rheo-microscopy. Tracer particle displacements are analyzed using tail-sensitive statistical methods, including distribution model selection via the Anderson–Darling
+statistic and Hill-exponent estimation, enabling the detection of rare, intermittent rearrangements that are obscured by ensemble-averaged observables.
+
+Although the two systems exhibit similar macroscopic rheological signatures, they display qualitatively distinct microscopic yielding pathways. PG Carbopol shows an abrupt onset of intermittent rearrangements near the macroscopic crossover point (G' = G"), whereas AQ Carbopol undergoes a gradual transition at strain amplitudes well above this crossover. Ensemble-averaged measures such as the mean-squared displacement are insensitive to these differences, whereas tail-sensitive descriptors reveal clear dynamical regime transitions.
+
+These findings demonstrate that microscopic and macroscopic yielding criteria do not generally coincide and support a regime-based description of yielding in soft
+microgel systems. More broadly, the work establishes echo rheo-microscopy combined with tail-sensitive statistical analysis as a quantitative framework for linking nonlinear rheological response to microscopic structural dynamics.
+
+</div>

content/post/2026/26-02-16-visitors/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+title: Student visitors
+
+summary: MSc student from University of Milan visit Somex Lab. 
+authors:
+#  - Mohandas
+date: 2026-02-16T09:00:00Z
+image:
+  focal_point: 'smart'
+#  caption: Image credit - OIST
+# Show this page in the Featured widget?
+featured: false
+text-align: justify
+---
+
+<!--more-->
+
+We are delighted to host [Carlo Marietti]({{< relref "/authors/Carlo/_index.md" >}}) from the University of Milan. Carlo is here on the internship funded by [Vienna Doctoral School in Physics](https://vds-physics.univie.ac.at/?no_cache=1) that offers selected MSc students from inside and outside of Austria to be immersed in real world research with experts in their field for 2-6 months.
+
+We're excited to have him on board and look forward to the insights his research will bring!
+
+Topic of research:
+
+<div style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 20px; border-radius: 6px;text-align: justify;">
+
+<strong>Probing fluctuation-induced forces in non-equilibrium fluids</strong>
+
+[Casimir forces](https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/74/1/42/396280/Science-and-technology-of-the-Casimir-effectCaused) emerge when fluctuating fields are confined, as seen between uncharged, conducting plates in a vacuum or in fluids near a critical point. Out-of-equilibrium fluids exhibit even stronger fluctuations, which theory predicts should generate remarkably large Casimir-like forces in confined spaces. However, measuring these forces experimentally remains a challenge. In this project, we aim to overcome this barrier by using advanced optical techniques to track the interactions of colloidal particles suspended in a complex medium with giant fluctuations driven by diffusion or thermophoresis. Our goal is to provide the first direct experimental evidence of non-equilibrium Casimir-like forces - offering exciting new insights into fluctuation-induced interactions in soft matter physics.
+</div>
+

content/publication/2025/brizioli2025/index.md

@@ -34,23 +34,24 @@ publishDate: "2025-01-14T00:00:00Z"
 publication_types: ["article-journal"]
 
 # Publication name and optional abbreviated publication name.
-publication: "*Soft Matter*, 2025"
-publication_short: "*Soft Matter*, 2025"
+publication: "*Soft Matter*, **21**, no. 1 (2025): 1373-1381"
+publication_short: ""
 
 abstract: "Particle-tracking microrheology probes the rheology of soft materials by accurately tracking an ensemble of embedded colloidal tracer particles. One-particle analysis, which focuses on the trajectory of individual tracers is ideal for homogeneous materials that do not interact with the particles. By contrast, the characterization of heterogeneous, micro-structured materials or those where particles interact directly with the medium requires a two-particle analysis that characterizes correlations between the trajectories of distinct particle pairs. Here, we propose an optical-flow image analysis as an alternative to the tracking-based algorithms to extract one and two-particle microrheology information from video microscopy images acquired using diverse imaging contrast modalities. This technique, termed Optical-Flow Microrheology (OFM), represents a high-throughput, operator-free approach for the characterization of a broad range of soft materials, making microrheology accessible to a wider scientific community."
 
 # Summary. An optional shortened abstract.
 summary:
 
 tags:
-#- tag1
-#- tag2
+- Soft Matter
+- Microscopy
+- Rheology
 featured: false
 
 links:
 #- name: Link
 #  url: "link..."
-#url_pdf: ''
+url_pdf: 'https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2025/sm/d4sm01390e'
 #url_code: ''
 #url_dataset: ''
 #url_poster: ''

content/publication/2025/enrico2025/index.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ publishDate: "2025-10-27T12:00:00Z"
 publication_types: ["article-journal"]
 
 # Publication name and optional abbreviated publication name.
-publication: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Differential Dynamic Microscopy"
+publication: "*J. Chem. Phys.* **163**, no. 16 (2025): 161501"
 publication_short: ""
 
 abstract: Over nearly two decades, differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) has become a standard technique for extracting dynamic correlation functions from time-lapse microscopy data, with applications spanning classical soft matter systems, such as colloidal suspensions, liquid crystals, polymer solutions, gels and glasses, and active fluids and biological systems. In its most common implementation, DDM analyzes image sequences acquired with a conventional microscope equipped with a digital camera, yielding time- and wavevector-resolved information analogous to that obtained in multi-angle dynamic light scattering. With a widening array of applications and a growing, heterogeneous user base, lowering the technical barrier to performing DDM has become a central objective. In this tutorial article, we provide a step-by-step guide to conducting DDM experiments—from planning and acquisition to data analysis—intended as a resource for both new and experienced practitioners. We also introduce the open-source software package, fastDDM, designed to efficiently process large image datasets using optimized, parallel algorithms that reduce analysis times by up to four orders of magnitude on typical datasets (e.g., 10 000 frames), thereby enabling high-throughput workflows, reproducibility, and broader adoption across disciplines.

content/publication/2026/abdo2026/cite.bib

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+@article{abdo2026novo,
+  title={De Novo Gene Transcription of Connexin Mediates Cytoplasmic Fluid Exchange and Flocking Transitions in Physiological and Cancerous Epithelial Systems},
+  author={Abdo, Hind and Barzaghi, Leonardo and Shen, Yuan and Bellini, Edoardo and Martini, Emanuele and Magni, Serena and Barozzi, Sara and Orsenigo, Fabrizio and Parazzoli, Dario and Beznoussenko, Galina V and others},
+  journal={Advanced Science},
+  volume={13},
+  number={6},
+  pages={e08648},
+  year={2026},
+  publisher={Wiley Online Library}
+}