Aleksandra (Sasha) Ardaševa
SNSF Ambizione Fellow
at EPFL, Switzerland

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About me

I am an SNSF Ambizione Fellow in Theoretical Biophysics at EPFL, Switzerland. My research focuses on computational modelling of biological processes at different scales, from single-cell phenomena to collective behaviour of several cell populations. Currently, I am interested in modelling adaptation in active matter and investigating how certain mechanical properties of tissues are selected.

I obtained my PhD from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Philip Maini, Prof. Helen Byrne, Dr. Sandy Anderson and Dr. Robert Gatenby, MD (Moffitt Cancer Center, USA). My thesis explored the evolutionary dynamics of cancer cells in temporally varying environments. After that, I joined the Niels Bohr Institute, first as an MSCA COFUND Junior Research Fellow and then as an MSCA Individual Fellow. Under the supervision of Prof. Amin Doostmohammadi, I studied the interactions between active matter and its environment in close collaboration with experimental scientists. Finally, I did a short postdoc at Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, France, to model CO2 capture with foams (supervised by Dr. Simon Gravelle).

News & Upcoming events

• Aug 2026 — Our joint research with Ladoux (FAU Erlangen) and Marcelle (Lyon) Labs on muscle development has been published in Nature Communications! Here, we uncover the role of mechanics in the localisation of fusion events as myoblasts fuse into myotubes.
• Aug 2026 — Sasha will give a talk and Hengdong will give a poster presentation at Swiss Physics Society Annual Meeting.