Publications
Journal articles & preprints
Zoology of collective patterns modulated by non-reciprocal long-range interactions
to appear in Soft Matter (2026) [see arXiv]
Confinement controls bacterial spreading at all scales
to appear in Royal Soc. Interface (2026) [see arXiv]
Resources and population dynamics in an agent-environment interaction model
to appear in Phys. Rev. E (2026) [see arXiv]
Active stop and go motion: a strategy to improve spatial exploration and survival
Phys. Rev. E 112, L033402 (2025)
Spreading processes on heterogeneous active systems: spreading threshold, immunization strategies, and vaccination noise
Phys. Rev. E 112, L032303 (2025)
Activity leads to topological phase transition in 2D populations of heterogeneous oscillators
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 188301 (2025)
Self-trapping of active particles with nonreciprocal interactions in disordered media
Physical Review E 110 (6), 064602 (2024).
Structural dynamics and optimal transport of an active polymer
Soft Matter 20 (38), 7592-7600 (2024).
A generic coupling between between internal states and activity leads to activation fronts and criticality in active systems
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133 (5), 058301 (2024).
Assessing the forecasting power of mean-field approaches for disease spreading using active systems
Physica A 648, 129916 (2024)
Active stop and go motion: a strategy to improve spatial exploration?
arXiv (2023). (appeared as Phys. Rev. E 112, L033402 in 2025)
Vectorial Active Matter on the Lattice: polar condensates and nematic filaments
New J. of Physics 25 (12), 123046 (2023).
Reversible adhesion by type IV pili leads to formation of irreversible localized clusters
iScience (2022).
Intermittent collective motion in sheep results from alternating the role of leader and follower
Nature Physics (2022)
Read broad audience synopsis on this work in Le Monde / Pour la Science, etc. Also read News & Views on the article in Nature Physics by C. Huepe
Coordination of two opposite flagella allows high-speed swimming and active turning of individual zoospores
eLife 11, e71227 (2022).
Read News & Views on the article in Nature
Statistics of pathogenic bacteria in the search of host cells
Nature Communications 12, 1990 (2021).
Topological flocking models in spatially heterogeneous environments
Communications Physics 4 (1), 206 (2021).
Kinetic and macroscopic models for active particles exploring complex environments with an internal navigation control system
Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences 31 (08), 1691-1717 (2021)
A particle-field representation unifies paradigms in active matter
Nature Communications 11, 5365 (2020)
Novel approach to chemotaxis: active particles guided by internal clocks
EPL 130, 68002 (2020).
M. Bär, R. Grossmann, S. Heidenreich, F. Peruani, Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 11, 441 (2020).
The 2020 motile active matter roadmap
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 32, 193001 (2020).
Contributed section: self-organized collective patterns in active matter
Modeling collective cell motion: are on- and off-lattice models equivalent?
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 375, 20190378 (2020).
Flocking in complex environments – Attention trade-offs in Collective Information Processing
PLoS Comput. Biol. 16(4), e1007697 (2020).
Bacteria display optimal transport near surfaces
Nature Physics 15, 610-615 (2019) [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0460-5]
Read the Synopsis by Ingrid Fadelli in Phys.org. The article was also covered in a news outlet: Nice Matin
An ant navigation model based on Weber's law
Journal of Mathematical Biology 78, 943-984 (2019)
Cold Active Matter: How Time-Independent Disorder Affects the Motion of Self-Propelled Agents
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 238101 (2018)
The paper has been selected by Phys. Rev. Lett. as an Editor’s Suggestion
Markovian microrobots: minimal navigation strategies for active particles
Phys. Rev. E 97, 042604 (2018).
A polar bundle of flagella can drive bacterial swimming by pushing, pulling, or coiling around the cell body
Scientific Reports 7, 16771 (2017).
Hydrodynamic equations for flocking models without alignment
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 86, 101010 (2017).
Extracting cellular automaton rules from physical Langevin equation models for single and collective cell migration
Journal of Mathematical Biology (2017).
Large-scale patterns in a minimal cognitive flocking model: Incidental leaders, nematic patterns, and aggregates
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 248001 (2016)
Read the Synopsis: "Flocks Without Memory" by Matteo Rini in Physics: http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.248001 — also covered in other outlets (e.g., https://nplus1.ru/news/2016/12/13/school-of-fish-flock-of-bird)
Mesoscale pattern formation of self-propelled rods with velocity reversal
Phys. Rev. E 94, 050602 (Rapid Comm.) (2016)
Superdiffusion, large-scale synchronization, and topological defects
Phys. Rev. E 93, 040102(R) (2016).
Diffusion properties of active particles with directional reversal
New J. Phys. 18, 043009 (2016)
Read a Perspective on this work by Carsten Beta in IOP Science: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/18/5/051003/meta
Intermittent collective dynamics emerge from conflicting imperatives in sheep herds
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112, 12729-12734 (2015).
+ equally contributed
Read a broad-audience synopsis in Pour la Science: http://www.pourlascience.fr/ewb_pages/a/actu-le-mouton-de-panurge-une-reputation-qui-se-confirme-36174.php; covered in several newspapers
Decision-making for collective motion results in an all-or-none response in sheep
PLoS ONE 10(10), e0140188 (2015).
Giant aggregates and absence of global orientation in self-propelled rods
Phys. Rev. E 92, 012322 (2015).
Active particles in heterogeneous media display new physics: existence of an optimal noise and absence of bands and long-range order
Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 224, 1287-1302 (2015).
A geometric approach to self-propelled motion in isotropic & anisotropic environments
Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 224, 1377-1397 (2015).
Motility-induced phase separation of active particles in the presence of velocity alignment
J. Stat. Phys. 158, 589-600 (2015).
Diffusion, subdiffusion, and trapping of active particles in heterogeneous media
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 160604 (2013)
A kinetic model and scaling properties for non-equilibrium clustering of self-propelled particles
New J. Phys. 15, 065009 (2013)
Optimal Noise Maximizes Collective Motion in Heterogeneous Media
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 238101 (2013)
Fluctuations and the role of collision duration in reaction-diffusion systems
Europhys. Lett. 102, 58001 (2013)
Pattern-formation mechanisms in motility mutants of Myxococcus xanthus
Interface Focus 2(6), 774-785 (2012)
+ equally contributed
Collective motion and nonequilibrium cluster formation in colonies of gliding bacteria
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 098102 (2012)
Directedness of information flow in mobile phone communication networks
PLoS ONE 6, e28860 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028860
Polar vs. apolar alignment in systems of polar self-propelled particles
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 297, 012014 (2011)
Traffic jams, gliders, and bands in the quest for collective motion
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 128101 (2011)
Cluster dynamics and cluster size distributions in systems of self-propelled particles
Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 191, 173-185 (2010)
Mobility induces global synchronization of oscillators in extended systems
New J. Phys. 12, 093029 (2010).
Large-scale properties of a simple model for self-propelled rods
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 184502 (2010)
Modeling discrete combinatorial systems as Alphabetic Bipartite Networks: Theory and Applications
Phys. Rev. E 81, 036103 (2010).
Delay Tolerance Networks with Omnidirectional and Directional Antenna
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 28, 524-531 (2010).
Stability Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Networks Against Churn
Pramana – J. Phys. 71, 263 (2008).
Generalized theory for node disruption in finite complex networks
Phys. Rev. E 78, 026115 (2008).
Dynamics and Steady States in Excitable Mobile Agent System
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 168103 (2008).
Mean field theory for the collective motion of self-propelled particles interacting by velocity alignment mechanisms
Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 157, 111 (2008).
Emergence of a non-scaling degree distribution in bipartite networks: a numerical and analytical study
Europhys. Lett. 79, 28001 (2007).
Nonequilibrium clustering of self-propelled rods
Phys. Rev. E 74, 030904 (Rapid Comm.) (2006).
On cell resistance and immune response time lag in a model for HIV infection
Physica A 343, 543 (2004).
Dielectric breakdown model for conductor-loaded and insulator-loaded composite materials
Phys. Rev. E 69, 016123 (2004).
Proceedings (peer‑reviewed)
How to detect causality effects on large dynamical communication networks: a case study
Proceedings of ComsNets 2012, Bengaluru, India (2012).
Attacks on Correlated Peer-to-Peer Networks: An Analytical Study
SCNC 2011 (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM) (2011).
Influence of the motion of individuals on the evolution of a SIRS epidemy
Proceedings of BIOMAT 2011 (World Scientific) (2011).
Analyzing the Vulnerability of Superpeers Networks Against Attack
Proceedings of CCS 2007 (2007).
Book chapters
Active Brownian Rods
in: Microswimmers – from particle motion to collective behaviour, Jülich Forschungzentrum Verlag (2015).
Auto-organisation et agrégation cellulaire sans chimiotactisme
in: Le vivant critique et chaotique (2015).
Advances in Complex Networks
in: Dynamics on and of Complex Networks: Applications to Biology, Computer Science, Economics, and the Social Sciences, Birkhäuser-Springer (2009).
Bacterial swarming driven by rod shape
in: Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Volume I (2007).