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Halim Kusumaatmaja is an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics at Durham University. He is actively involved in theoretical and computational research at the intersection of physics, chemistry, engineering, and biology. His work is closely associated with the Durham Centre for Soft Matter, the Biophysical Sciences Institute, and the SOFI CDT, reflecting his interdisciplinary approach to scientific problems.
Professor Kusumaatmaja's research spans multiple areas of soft matter and biophysics, with particular focus on wetting phenomena on structured surfaces, membrane biophysics, liquid-liquid phase separation, multi-stable elastic structures, crystallography on curved surfaces, the Lattice Boltzmann Method, and energy landscape exploration. His work combines theoretical modeling with computational techniques to address fundamental questions in fluid mechanics and biological systems. He has developed novel approaches for computing free energy landscapes of continuum models, which has applications across various soft matter systems.
His recent publications (2021-2025) demonstrate a strong trend toward interdisciplinary research that bridges traditional boundaries between physics, biology, and computational science. His work spans from fundamental studies of wetting and capillary phenomena to applications in biological systems like stress granule condensates and membrane biophysics. Notably, he has recently expanded into quantum computing applications for classical physics problems, showing his ability to adapt to emerging computational paradigms. His research consistently focuses on understanding complex energy landscapes, interfacial phenomena, and the mechanical properties of soft materials.
Professor Kusumaatmaja has supervised PhD students including Ke Sun and Listra Ginting, and actively welcomes talented undergraduates, PhD students, postdocs, and visitors to join his research group. He has secured funding through various prestigious fellowships including EPSRC, Leverhulme Early Career, Marie Curie, Newton, and Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 fellowships, demonstrating his ability to attract competitive research funding.
His research group operates at the forefront of computational soft matter physics, utilizing advanced simulation techniques to tackle problems ranging from fundamental wetting phenomena to biological membrane interactions. The group maintains strong collaborations with experimental colleagues, ensuring that theoretical predictions can be validated against real-world observations. Professor Kusumaatmaja is also a co-author of the authoritative text 'The Lattice Boltzmann Method: Principles and Practice' (Springer, 2017), which has become a standard reference in the field.
