Welcome to the research group of Alvaro Marin. We are based in the Physics of Fluids cluster at the University of Twente, also part of the Max-Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics.
We are 
largely and proudly supported by the European Research Council through an starting grant.
We are a group of curious people interested in things living in confined systems: particles inside droplets, droplets inside channels, particles inside channels, bacteria inside droplets, people between walls or confined by white lines on the green grass. We are mainly driven by the observation of beautiful and very unexpected phenomena, and work very hard to describe them, sometimes we even manage to explain them! This is what drives our work.
So if you are a classifier-type, our work could be roughly classified somewhere between Physics and Engineering, Soft Matter also works for us!
News & updates
I collaborated recently with Dennis Bakhuis and Sander Huisman and others at Physics of Fluids in this cool project making mayonnaise by brute force and not relying and surfactants or…
Quite happy to see our recent paper “Particle monolayer assembly in evaporating salty colloidal droplets” in Physical Review Fluids suggested by the editors! Congrats to Laura and Myrthe for their…
Alvaro presented in January 2020 his TEDx talk “Why Artists and Scientists should hand out more often”, where he talked about his work with the artist Maurice Mikkers, and about…
Next Seminars & Conferences
In this year’s Euromech, I’ll be presenting our latest results on the pattern formation in evaporating salty drops, much of it will be hopefully soon be submitted for publication. Particularly…
So happy to be participating in the DPG conference in Berlin! I will be talking on Monday 12th on the Focus Droplets session and on Wednesday 14th on Complex Fluids…
Together with Javier Rodriguez-Rodriguez, we have been organizing this workshop/seminar “El Almendro” for a few years in the University Carlos III in Madrid. The show runs on Friday 22 December…
