Welcome to the Marin Lab!We are based in the Physics of Fluids chair at the University of Twente, also part of the Max-Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics.

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!

Latest Publications

Skin formation in evaporating colloidal droplets*

Raphael Saiseau, Christian Diddens, Lorenzo Botto & AM

Viral Transport in evaporating sessile model respiratory droplets

Javi Martínez-Puig, C. Torre Luque, C. Arbesu Nieto, Pepijn Hoekstra, F. Usera, B. Martín Jouve, A. de la Encina, T. Bartolomé, M. Sanz, F. Almazán, A. Oña, AM & Javi Rodríguez

Evaporation-driven buckling of a drop laden with graphene oxide nanosheets

Suriya Prakash, Eva Krolis, AM, Lorenzo Botto

Recent and old stories from projects that are worth telling:

Water Bottle Flipping Physics


It took lots of practice but our paper on Water Bottle Flipping Physics was published in the American Journal of Physics and is available in arXiv. The paper has been also chosen as “editor’s pick” in the Am. J. Physics.