# News

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© Katrin Boes / MPI-CBG

Science
Awards
Campàs Group

July 1, 2025

### HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship for Augusto Ortega Granillo

Augusto Ortega Granillo, a joint postdoc at Physics of Life and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, has received a Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2025/07/01/hfsp-postdoctoral-fellowship-for-augusto-ortega-granillo "››› read article")

© Brian Long, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Publications
Campàs Group

February 21, 2025

### Turning Robotic Ensembles into Smart Materials that Mimic Life

Through a collaboration between the Campàs group at PoL and researchers at UCSB, scientists have developed robotic materials that can support heavy loads but also reshape, manipulate objects, and even self-heal.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2025/02/21/campas-2025-science "››› read article")

© Campàs Lab – Rana Amini

Science
Publications
RA1
Campàs Group

August 12, 2024

### The Hidden Architect: How nuclei organize the eyes and brain

Groundbreaking research from the Campàs group at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life of TU Dresden now reveals that the cell’s nucleus controls the stiffness of eye and brain tissues.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/08/12/the-hidden-architect-how-nuclei-organize-the-eyes-and-brain "››› read article")

© Thorsten Eckert

Society
Campàs Group

July 3, 2024

### The Sächsische Newspaper Interviews PoL Director Otger Campàs

Read the translated interview of PoL Director Otger Campàs with the Saxon newspaper Sächsische.de.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/07/03/the-saechsische-newspaper-interviews-pol-director-otger-campas "››› read article")

© Neha Pincha Shroff & Pengfei Xu

Science
Publications
RA1
Campàs Group

April 3, 2024

### Pressured to become the organizer

A collaboration between the Campàs group at PoL, the University of California, and Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s in Los Angeles, has identified how organizers orchestrate the formation of teeth.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/04/03/pressured-to-become-the-organizer "››› read article")

© PoL / Vian et al.

Science
Publications
RA1
RA4
RA6
Campàs Group

November 3, 2023

### Under Pressure: Seeing the Squeeze in Living Organisms

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2023/11/03/under-pressure-seeing-the-squeeze-in-living-organisms "››› read article")

Society
Mateus Group
Campàs Group

June 2, 2023

### Award-Winning “Bright Minds. Excellent Research.” Series Spotlights Prof. Otger Campas and Dr. Rita Mateus

The “Bright Minds. Excellent Research.” series, showcasing exceptional scientists from TU Dresden, has received the prestigious Intermedia-globe Gold Award. This remarkable series provides a captivating glimpse into the groundbreaking work of researchers at the TUD, including researchers from the Institute Physics of Life (PoL).

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2023/06/02/award-winning-bright-minds-excellent-research-series-spotlights-prof-otger-campas-and-dr-rita-mateus "››› read article")

© Campàs Lab

Publications
Campàs Group

December 28, 2022

### A glimpse of a cell’s sense of touch

A research team at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life of TU Dresden and the University of California, Santa Barbara, reveals how cells sense their mechanical environment as they build tissues during embryogenesis.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2022/12/28/a-glimpse-of-a-cells-sense-of-touch "››› read article")

© Hagen Gebauer/TUD

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Schießel Group
Campàs Group

February 15, 2022

### New leadership at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) of TU Dresden

The Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TU Dresden has appointed Prof. Otger Campàs as new managing director and Prof. Helmut Schießel as deputy director.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2022/02/15/new-leadership-at-the-cluster-of-excellence-physics-of-life-pol-of-tu-dresden "››› read article")

© Michael Kretzschmar

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Campàs Group

July 27, 2021

### Of embryo mechanics and living foams: Otger Campàs appointed as Chair for Tissue Dynamics at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life at TU Dresden

Prof. Campàs joins the Dresden research community to focus on embryonic self-organization and morphogenesis

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2021/07/27/of-embryo-mechanics-and-living-foams-otger-campas-appointed-as-chair-for-tissue-dynamics-at-the-cluster-of-excellence-physics-of-life-at-tu-dresden "››› read article")

Research Avenues
Doyle Group
Campàs Group

July 5, 2021

### New research groups established at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2021/07/05/new-research-groups-established-at-the-cluster-of-excellence-physics-of-life "››› read article")

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Research Groups
Campàs Group

February 25, 2021

### New Research Group Leader: Otger Campàs

Otger Campàs holds the Chair of Tissue Dynamics at PoL and leads the Physics of Embryonic Self-Organization and Morphogenesis group, starting in July 2021.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2021/02/25/new-research-group-leader-otger-campas "››› read article")

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