Sebastian Fürthauer studies the physics of cellular scale processes, such as cell division and cell motility, cells, and living materials more broadly. After earning his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Cellular Biology and Genetics, in Dresden, Germany, he did research at the Tata Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences in Hyderabad, India, the Courant Institute at New York University and Harvard University, and the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation in New York City. His group at TU-Wien seeks to uncover how cytoskeletal networks function in cells and how cells organize into tissues, using approaches from theoretical and numerical physics. They also study the physics of ciliary synchronization, to uncover shared principles at play in the self-organization and control from ciliated micro-swimmers to ciliated organs like our brains, lungs and kidneys.