Jonas Berx
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- Name
- Dr. J. Berx
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- j.berx@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1904-8103
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Medical Systems Biophysics and Bioengineering (MSBB) group led by Prof. Dr. Alireza Mashaghi Tabari. My background is in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and mathematical physics, which I now apply to solve problems in biophysics. In the MSBB group, I am mainly focused on studying the theoretical foundations of Circuit Topology, in particular for multichain polymer systems. To this end, I use a combination of mathematical techniques (e.g., knot theory, braiding, set theory) and numerical simulations of biopolymers. During my PhD at the KU Leuven in Belgium, I developed a technique - the BLUES function method, to analytically approximate solutions of nonlinear differential equations. I also studied geometrical properties of surfaces fomed by the hierarchical size-dependent deposition of particles on a flat substrate. After finishing my PhD, I did a brief postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation in Germany, where I studied driven scalar active matter confined in a periodic potential, which undergoes a Bose-Einstein-like condensation transition when a diffusivity edge is present. Subsequently, I returned to the KU Leuven and revisited the hierarchical deposition model in the context of visibility algorithms, allowing geometrical properties to be translated into graph-theoretical quantities that can be used for a dual description of the underlying surface profile.
Publications:
Publications can be find here: Orchid link to publications Jonas Berx
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- Science
- Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research
- LACDR/Pharmacology
- Berx J. & Mashaghi A. (2024), Aggregation and structural phase transitions of semiflexible polymer bundles: a braided circuit topology approach, iScience 27(3): 108995.
- Berx J. & Mashaghi Tabari A. (2023), Decoding chirality in circuit topology of a self entangled chain through braiding, Soft Matter 19(31): 5888-5895.
- Berx J. & Indekeu J.O. (2022), Epidemic processes with vaccination and immunity loss studied with the BLUES function method, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 590: 126724.
- Nguyen V.T. & Berx J. (2022), The condensed fraction of a homogeneous dilute bose gas within the improved Hartree–Fock approximation, Journal of Statistical Physics 188(2): 16.
- Berx J. & Indekeu J.O. (2021), BLUES function method applied to partial differential equations and analytic approximants for interface growth under shear, Physical Review Research 3(3): 033113.
- Berx J., Bervoets E., Giuraniuc C.V. & Indekeu J.O. (2021), Coastlines and percolation in a model for hierarchical random deposition, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 574: 125998.
- Berx J. & Indekeu J.O. (2020), BLUES iteration applied to nonlinear ordinary differential equations for wave propagation and heat transfer, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 54(2): 025702.
- Berx J. & Indekeu J.O. (2019), Analytic iteration procedure for solitons and traveling wavefronts with sources, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 52(38): 38LT01.
- Put S., Berx J. & Vanderzande C. (2019), Non-Gaussian anomalous dynamics in systems of interacting run-and-tumble particles, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2019(12): 123205.