Scott Waitukaitis
Member of the Young Academy since 2021
Contact:
scott.waitukaitis(at)ist.ac.at
Orcid-ID:
0000-0002-2299-3176
Research Areas:
- Physics, Astronomy
- Experimental physics
- Condensed matter
- Statistical physics
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- American Physical Society
Selected Prizes:
- ERC Starting Grant
- NNV Fysica Young Speakers Award
- Block Prize for Outstanding Young Researcher
- Veni Research Grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- The Springer Thesis Award, Springer Publishing
Selected Publications:
- Jigsaw puzzle design of pluripotent origami Peter Dieleman, Niek Vasmel, Scott Waitukaitis, and Martin van Hecke. Nature Physics 16, 63-68 (2020).
- Coupling the Leidenfrost effect and elastic deformations to power sustained bouncing (Cover) Scott Waitukaitis, Antal Zuiderwijk, Anton Souslov, Corentin Coulais and Martin van Hecke. Nature Physics 13, 1095-1099 (2017).
- Direct observation of particle interactions and clustering in charged granular streams Victor Lee, Scott Waitukaitis, Marc Miskin and Heinrich Jaeger. Nature Physics 11, 733-737 (2015).
- Impact-activated solidification of dense suspensions via dynamic jamming fronts Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger. Nature 487, 205-209 (2012).
- High-speed tracking of rupture and clustering in freely-falling granular streams John Royer, D.J. Evans, Loreto Oyarte, Qiti Guo, Matthias Möbius, Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger. Nature 459, 1110-1113 (2009).