The Radja Living Patterns Lab

Our lab strives to experimentally discover and phenomenologically model the physical rules that biological systems have harnessed to survive.

Specifically, we explore the underlying physical mechanisms that lead to unique biological patterns and motions that contribute to an organism’s survival. For example, some corals look like networks made of biological tissues. We aim to answer questions such as:

• What are the underlying physics rules that dictate this pattern development (i.e. how do they form)?
• What do these patterns optimize (i.e. why do they look the way they do)?
• What are the external environmental influences that may change these patterns (i.e. how do they change)?