Professor Alexandre Kabla

Professor Alexandre KablaProfessor of MechanobiologyDepartment of EngineeringBiography

I am professor of Mechanobiology at the Engineering Department. I trained as a physicist and computer scientist. My early research focused on the mechanics of sand castles and liquid foams. I then progressively drifted towards fibrous materials, and then to biological tissues and cell mechanics in general.

Research

Our current research focuses on the mechanobiology of tissues. We use numerical and analytical modelling, as well as experimentation, to study how cells assemblies respond to forces and control their mechanical properties, as well as how active processes such as cell migration lead to the morphogenesis of tissues. Our research is collaborative and interdisciplinary. From a technical perspective, we have expertise in soft matter physics, rheology, mechanical characterisation of materials, microfluidics, and scientific software engineering.