About
I'm a PhD student in Physics studying Active Brownian Particles — self-propelled microscopic agents that consume energy to move, cluster, and collectively misbehave in ways that still feel miraculous to me. My work lives somewhere between non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and computational simulation; I spend a lot of time staring at particle clouds on a screen and arguing with LAMMPS.
Outside the lab I train and compete in MMA. I find the two pursuits rhyme more than people expect: both reward obsessive attention to detail and punish you immediately when you get something wrong.
I'm currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia, which I chose partly for the khinkali and partly because the city has a productive indifference to whatever century you think it is. I write here occasionally — about physics, fighting, books, and whatever else won't leave me alone.
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