Luis Alberto Gómez Nava

Postdoctoral researcher
mail: luis.gomez@hu-berlin.de

Luis Alberto Gómez Nava graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2012, focusing on quantum dynamical systems of bosons trapped in harmonic potentials. Later, he finished a master thesis in the Physics Institute of the same university (UNAM), where he studied the dynamics of self-propelled particles in a 2D stochastic system. He then moved to Nice, in the south of France, where he worked on his PhD in collective phenomena in biological and artificial systems. His research area is theoretical physics.
At SCIoI, he is currently a postdoctoral researcher focusing on quantifying and modelling collective behavior of fish across ecological contexts. This study involves analysing a natural system located in Tabasco, Mexico, consisting of groups of fish, called Poecilia sulphuraria, that are subject to attacks of natural predators such as birds. The individuals show a synchronized collective diving response to the attacks, which is quantified by the surface waves that can propagate along the whole system. The aim is to investigate the mechanisms at the individual level that might be responsible for such a collective behavior, and to study the role of the system’s degree of excitability in an ecological context. 

At SCIoI, Luis is working on Project 12.

SCIoI Publications:

Klamser, P. P., Gómez-Nava, L., Landgraf, T., Jolles, J. W., Bierbach, D., & Romanczuk, P. (2021). Impact of Variable Speed on Collective Movement of Animal Groups. arXiv:2106.00959 [physics, q-bio]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.715996
Gómez-Nava, L., Lange, R. T., Klamser, P. P., Lukas, J., Arias-Rodriguez, L., Bierbach, D., Krause, J., Sprekeler, H., & Romanczuk, P. (2023). Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations. Nature Physics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01916-1
Gómez-Nava, L., Bon, R., & Peruani, F. (2022). Intermittent collective motion in sheep results from alternating the role of leader and follower. Nature Physics, 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01769-8
Bierbach, D., Gómez-Nava, L., Francisco, F. A., Lukas, J., Musiolek, L., Hafner, V. V., Landgraf, T., Romanczuk, P., & Krause, J. (2022). Live fish learn to anticipate the movement of a fish-like robot. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac8e3e

 

 

Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder – EXC-2002/1 – Projektnummer 390523135 .
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany ́s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2002/1 – Projectnumber 390523135.

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