The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) awarded the early career prize 2023 in biological Physics to Ricard Alert, research group leader at the MPI-PKS and the Center for Systems Biology Dresden for "revealing how new phenomena in active matter underlie a wide range of biological processes, from the spreading of epithelial tissues, to turbulent-like flows in cytoskeletal networks, to the formation of fruiting bodies in bacterial colonies."

The IUPAP C6 Early Career Scientist Prize recognizes exceptional achievements of scientists in the field of Biological Physics at a relatively early stage of their career. The recipients must be no more than eight years past the award of their PhDs (excluding career interruptions), and they are expected to have demonstrated significant scientific achievements and display exceptional promise for future achievements in Biological Physics.

Congratulations, Ricard!

Originally published by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems on 24th March 2023 – original article can be found here: https://www.pks.mpg.de/research/highlights