Ramin Golestanian

Ramin Golestanian
FRS FInstP
Golestanian in 2021
Born (1971-02-26) 26 February 1971
Paris, France
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Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Workplaces
Mehran Kardar

Ramin Golestanian FRS (Persian: رامین گلستانیان) is a theoretical physicist who specializes in active matter and non-equilibrium statistical physics. He is director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany, heading the department of Living Matter Physics[1], and professor at the Department of Physics and the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at Oxford University. He is an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen.

He is distinguished for his approach to the study of biological systems by viewing them as living condensed matter.[2][3][4] In particular, he has championed the idea of using basic principles that govern the non-equilibrium physics and chemistry of microscopic systems to design artificial or synthetic active mechanical functional modules,[5] such as motors,[6][7][8] enzymes,[9] swimmers,[10][11][12][13] and active colloids,[14][15][16][17] which exhibit a wealth of emergent collective properties.[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]

Early life and education

He was born on 26 February 1971 in Paris, France.[1] He grew up in Tehran and graduated from Alborz High School in 1989. In the same year, he won a bronze medal at the 20th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) in Poland.[27] This was the first time Iran took part in this international competition. He obtained his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology (1993), and his M.Sc. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS). His PhD research work was on fluctuation-induced phenomena and Casimir effect, under (remote) supervision of Mehran Kardar.[28]

Academic career

He has been a visiting scholar at MIT, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, Joliot Chair and CNRS visiting professor at ESPCI ParisTech, and visiting professor at Collège de France. Before joining Oxford University in 2010, he held academic positions at IASBS (2000-2005) and the University of Sheffield (2005-2010).[29]

Awards and honours

Golestanian is elected Fellow of the Royal Society[30][31] (2026), member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities[32] (2021), Fellow of the American Physical Society[33] (2017), and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2011). He is recipient of Chaire Paris-Sciences (2022), EPJE Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize[34] (2017), Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2017), Martin Gutzwiller Fellowship of the MPI-PKS[35] (2017), 50th-Anniversary Most Distinguished Alumni Award of Sharif University of Technology (2016), Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize[36][37][38] of the Société Française de Physique and the Institute of Physics (2014), and Nakamura Lecturer Award of UCSB[39] (2014).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Prof. Dr. Ramin Golestanian". Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization.
  2. ↑ "Oxford Podcast (2014): Living Matter & Theo Phys".
  3. ↑ "Oxford Podcast (2017): The bacterial Viewpoint".
  4. ↑ "Dynamics and Self-Organization of Active Matter: Outlook given by Ramin Golestanian at the celebration marking the 100th anniversary of MPI-DS".
  5. ↑ "Making Living Matter from the Bottom up: public lecture by Ramin Golestanian, Cambridge University Physics Society".
  6. ↑ Pumm, Anna-Katharina; Engelen, Wouter; Kopperger, Enzo; Isensee, Jonas; Vogt, Matthias; Kozina, Viktorija; Kube, Massimo; Honemann, Maximilian N.; Bertosin, Eva; Langecker, Martin; Golestanian, Ramin; Simmel, Friedrich C.; Dietz, Hendrik (21 July 2022). "A DNA origami rotary ratchet motor". Nature. 607 (7919): 492–498. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04910-y. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 9300469. PMID 35859200.
  7. ↑ Shi, Xin; Pumm, Anna-Katharina; Isensee, Jonas; Zhao, Wenxuan; Verschueren, Daniel; Martin-Gonzalez, Alejandro; Golestanian, Ramin; Dietz, Hendrik; Dekker, Cees (September 2022). "Sustained unidirectional rotation of a self-organized DNA rotor on a nanopore". Nature Physics. 18 (9): 1105–1111. doi:10.1038/s41567-022-01683-z. ISSN 1745-2473.
  8. ↑ Shi, Xin; Pumm, Anna-Katharina; Maffeo, Christopher; Kohler, Fabian; Feigl, Elija; Zhao, Wenxuan; Verschueren, Daniel; Golestanian, Ramin; Aksimentiev, Aleksei; Dietz, Hendrik; Dekker, Cees (March 2024). "A DNA turbine powered by a transmembrane potential across a nanopore". Nature Nanotechnology. 19 (3): 338–344. doi:10.1038/s41565-023-01527-8. ISSN 1748-3387. PMC 10950783. PMID 37884658.
  9. ↑ Chatzittofi, Michalis; Agudo-Canalejo, Jaime; Golestanian, Ramin (21 August 2025). "Mechanistic rules for de novo design of enzymes". Chem Catalysis. 5 (8). doi:10.1016/j.checat.2025.101394. hdl:21.11116/0000-0011-532C-F. ISSN 2667-1107.
  10. ↑ Najafi, Ali; Golestanian, Ramin (16 June 2004). "Simple swimmer at low Reynolds number: Three linked spheres". Physical Review E. 69 (6). arXiv:cond-mat/0402070. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.69.062901. ISSN 1539-3755. Archived from the original on 30 November 2025.
  11. ↑ Tierno, Pietro; Golestanian, Ramin; Pagonabarraga, Ignacio; Sagués, Francesc (21 November 2008). "Controlled Swimming in Confined Fluids of Magnetically Actuated Colloidal Rotors". Physical Review Letters. 101 (21). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.218304. ISSN 0031-9007.
  12. ↑ Golestanian, Ramin; Ajdari, Armand (22 January 2008). "Mechanical Response of a Small Swimmer Driven by Conformational Transitions". Physical Review Letters. 100 (3). arXiv:0711.4473. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.038101. ISSN 0031-9007.
  13. ↑ Golestanian, Ramin (29 June 2010). "Synthetic Mechanochemical Molecular Swimmer". Physical Review Letters. 105 (1). arXiv:1007.2078. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.018103. ISSN 0031-9007.
  14. ↑ Golestanian, Ramin; Liverpool, Tanniemola B.; Ajdari, Armand (10 June 2005). "Propulsion of a Molecular Machine by Asymmetric Distribution of Reaction Products". Physical Review Letters. 94 (22). arXiv:cond-mat/0701169. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.220801. ISSN 0031-9007.
  15. ↑ Howse, Jonathan R.; Jones, Richard A. L.; Ryan, Anthony J.; Gough, Tim; Vafabakhsh, Reza; Golestanian, Ramin (27 July 2007). "Self-Motile Colloidal Particles: From Directed Propulsion to Random Walk". Physical Review Letters. 99 (4). arXiv:0706.4406. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.048102. ISSN 0031-9007.
  16. ↑ Golestanian, R; Liverpool, T B; Ajdari, A (15 May 2007). "Designing phoretic micro- and nano-swimmers". New Journal of Physics. 9 (5): 126–126. arXiv:cond-mat/0701168. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/9/5/126. ISSN 1367-2630.
  17. ↑ Golestanian, Ramin (8 May 2009). "Anomalous Diffusion of Symmetric and Asymmetric Active Colloids". Physical Review Letters. 102 (18). arXiv:0904.3044. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.188305. ISSN 0031-9007.
  18. ↑ Uchida, Nariya; Golestanian, Ramin (26 April 2010). "Synchronization and Collective Dynamics in a Carpet of Microfluidic Rotors". Physical Review Letters. 104 (17). arXiv:0911.4253. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.178103. ISSN 0031-9007.
  19. ↑ Golestanian, Ramin; Yeomans, Julia M.; Uchida, Nariya (22 March 2011). "Hydrodynamic synchronization at low Reynolds number". Soft Matter. 7 (7): 3074–3082. doi:10.1039/C0SM01121E. ISSN 1744-6848.
  20. ↑ Golestanian, Ramin (20 January 2012). "Collective Behavior of Thermally Active Colloids". Physical Review Letters. 108 (3). arXiv:1110.1603. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.038303. ISSN 0031-9007.
  21. ↑ Saha, Suropriya; Golestanian, Ramin; Ramaswamy, Sriram (26 June 2014). "Clusters, asters, and collective oscillations in chemotactic colloids". Physical Review E. 89 (6). arXiv:1309.4947. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.89.062316. ISSN 1539-3755.
  22. ↑ Soto, Rodrigo; Golestanian, Ramin (10 February 2014). "Self-Assembly of Catalytically Active Colloidal Molecules: Tailoring Activity Through Surface Chemistry". Physical Review Letters. 112 (6). arXiv:1306.6596. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.068301. ISSN 0031-9007. Archived from the original on 27 February 2026.
  23. ↑ Agudo-Canalejo, Jaime; Golestanian, Ramin (3 July 2019). "Active Phase Separation in Mixtures of Chemically Interacting Particles". Physical Review Letters. 123 (1). arXiv:1901.09022. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.018101. ISSN 0031-9007. Archived from the original on 6 February 2026.
  24. ↑ Saha, Suropriya; Agudo-Canalejo, Jaime; Golestanian, Ramin (13 October 2020). "Scalar Active Mixtures: The Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard Model". Physical Review X. 10 (4). arXiv:2005.07101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.10.041009. ISSN 2160-3308.
  25. ↑ Osat, Saeed; Golestanian, Ramin (January 2023). "Non-reciprocal multifarious self-organization". Nature Nanotechnology. 18 (1): 79–85. doi:10.1038/s41565-022-01258-2. ISSN 1748-3387. PMC 9879770. PMID 36509920.
  26. ↑ Ouazan-Reboul, Vincent; Agudo-Canalejo, Jaime; Golestanian, Ramin (26 July 2023). "Self-organization of primitive metabolic cycles due to non-reciprocal interactions". Nature Communications. 14 (1). doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40241-w. ISSN 2041-1723.
  27. ↑ "IPhO Winners" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  28. ↑ Kardar, Mehran; Golestanian, Ramin (1 July 1999). "The "friction" of vacuum, and other fluctuation-induced forces". Reviews of Modern Physics. 71 (4): 1233–1245. arXiv:cond-mat/9711071. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.71.1233. ISSN 0034-6861.
  29. ↑ ICMNM2017. "Ramin Golestanian 1st International Conference on Micro/Nanomachines". www.icmnm.org. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  30. ↑ "Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society".
  31. ↑ "12 Oxford Scientists Elected Fellows of the Royal Society".
  32. ↑ "Von Zellbiochemie bis zur Tropenforschung". adw-goe.de. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2026.
  33. ↑ "APS Fellows archive".
  34. ↑ "Ramin Golestanian awarded the EPJE Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize for 2017". Springer Science+Business Media. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  35. ↑ "Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems: Martin Gutzwiller Fellow". www.pks.mpg.de. Retrieved 19 April 2026.
  36. ↑ "Ramin Golestanian wins the 2014 Holweck Medal". Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  37. ↑ "Holweck medal recipients". www.iop.org. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  38. ↑ "Holweck Prize is presented to Ramin Golestanian". www.iop.org. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  39. ↑ "Nakamura Lecture Series". materials.ucsb.edu. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2026.


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