Alexander Morozov

Professor Alexander Morozov is a faculty member at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh. His research spans soft condensed matter, biophysics, and fluid dynamics, with a focus on complex fluids, turbulence, and microswimmer suspensions. He holds an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship and has contributed to over 83 research outputs.

Research Interests:

• Viscoelastic and purely elastic flow instabilities
• Microorganism locomotion in complex fluids
• Active matter and topological phases
• Chromatin loop network modeling
• Soft matter rheology

Recent Publications highlight work on:

• Topological quasiparticle phases in active nematics
• Elasto-inertial turbulence mechanisms
• Hydrodynamic interactions in microswimmer arrays
• Chromatin entropy and polymer network combinatorics

Scientific Recognition:

• EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship
• Rheology award

Teaching: He currently teaches Statistical Mechanics and previously covered Methods of Mathematical Physics and Advanced Statistical Physics. His research group includes PhD student Ruairí Phelan and postdoc Damiano Capocci, focusing on active turbulence and microswimmer dynamics.