Da Wei 魏达

I am currently working as Associate Professor (Research Associate) in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS, IOP). I am working with a wonderful group of brilliant colleagues (SM8@IOP, CAS) and I still enjoy watching those microbes move.

I am an experimental biophysicist. I started with working on graphene nano-electronics. Then I switched field to study biological ciliary flow and green algae. Later, my research has expanded to include more micro-organisms, such as bacteria, microglia, and other somatic cells. I enjoy developing new experimental techniques and collaborating with friends from other fields. This makes half of my passion for doing research.

The other half lies in my research topic. How does motility emerge across scales? From motion of motor proteins (10^-8 m), to flagellar rotation and ciliary bending (10^-5 m), and from collective swimming (10^-4 m) to the macroscopic ciliary flow (10^-2 m). There emerges a ladder of order, and nothing is more fascinating.