Marcus Roper

  • Professor / UCLA Mathematics and Computational Medicine
  • UCLA

Professor Marcus Roper is a Professor of Mathematics at UCLA. He develops mathematical models for problems coming from physics and biology. He is particularly interested in (1) fungal mycelia, (2) the microvascular system and (3) design and optimization of inertial microfluidic devices. The projects that his group works on are usually experimentally inspired. Their goal is both to develop new mathematical methods and to gain a better understanding of the world around us.

Sessions

  • Why do fungal freeways never jam?

    Traffic congestion is a maddening fact of life for drivers in cities. The more cars a road carries, the slower everyone goes. Fungi too build freeways — cellular roads that can stretch for meters along forest floors, and that ceaselessly transport nutrients, water and cell stuff that the fungi and its plant partners need for […]