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Associate Professor Richard Morris

Associate Professor Richard Morris

Associate Professor
Science
School of Physics

After completing a masters degree in mathematical physics from the University of Edinburgh, and following a short period working in investment banking, Richard completed a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester.听 He then undertook postdocs at the Institut de Physique Theorique (IPhT) at the CEAA in Saclay, Frace, and the University of Warwick, in the UK.听 This facilitated a transition from statistical physics to soft-condensed matter, a trajectory that concluded with a move into living and active matter when he took up the position of Simons Fellow at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India.听 He was appointed as an EMBL-Australia Group Leader in 2019, and has a joint position at 黑料网大事记 between Single Molecule Science (SMS) and the School of Physics.
E-mail
r.g.morris@unsw.edu.au
Location
Rm 310, Level 3, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, 黑料网大事记, Kensington, Sydney, NSW, 2031
  • Book Chapters | 2019
    Jhawar J; Morris RG; Guttal V, 2019, 'Deriving Mesoscopic Models of Collective Behavior for Finite Populations', in INTEGRATED POPULATION BIOLOGY AND MODELING, PART B, pp. 551 - 594,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2014, 'Spatial Effects: Transport on Interdependent Networks', in DAgostino G; Scala A (ed.), NETWORKS OF NETWORKS: THE LAST FRONTIER OF COMPLEXITY, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, pp. 145 - 161,
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Al-Izzi SC; Nodehi SG; K枚ster DV; Morris RG, 2025, 'ATP-controlled remodeling in reconstituted actomyosin', Physical Review Research, 7,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Currin-Ross D; Al-Izzi SC; Noordstra I; Yap AS; Morris RG, 2025, 'Advecting scaffolds: Controlling the remodeling of actomyosin with anillin', Physical Review E, 111,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Eckert J; Andrews TGR; Pollard J; Shen Y; Essebier P; Ladoux B; Lagendijk AK; Priya R; Yap AS; Morris RG, 2025, 'Capturing nematic order on tissue surfaces of arbitrary geometry', Nature Communications, 16,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Pollard J; Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2025, 'Gauge freedom and objective rates in fluid deformable surfaces', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1007,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Pollard J; Morris RG, 2025, 'Defect dynamics in cholesterics: beyond the Peach-Koehler force', Soft Matter, 21, pp. 2300 - 2316,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Pollard J; Morris RG, 2025, 'Geometric frustration in twist-bend nematic droplets.', Soft Matter,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Pollard J; Morris RG, 2025, 'Morse Theory and Meron-Mediated Interactions Between Disclination Lines in Nematic Materials', Physical Review X, 15,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Spinney RE; Morris RG, 2025, 'A Dean-Kawasaki equation for reaction diffusion systems driven by Poisson noise', Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, 58,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Spinney RE; Morris RG, 2025, 'Nonstationary critical phenomena: Expanding the critical point', Physical Review E, 111, pp. 064129,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Worsfold JR; Morris RG, 2025, 'Stochastically bistable growth and decay in the Togashi-Kaneko model', Physical Review E, 112, pp. 014131,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dickson CF; Hertel S; Tuckwell AJ; Li N; Ruan J; Al-Izzi SC; Ariotti N; Sierecki E; Gambin Y; Morris RG; Towers GJ; B枚cking T; Jacques DA, 2024, 'The HIV capsid mimics karyopherin engagement of FG-nucleoporins', Nature, 626, pp. 836 - 842,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2023, 'Morphodynamics of active nematic fluid surfaces', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 957,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Crosato E; Philippson JN; Thutupalli S; Morris RG, 2023, 'Dynamical demographic phases explain how population growth and mutation control the evolutionary impact of bottlenecks', Physical Review Research, 5,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Noordstra I; Hermoso MD; Schimmel L; Bonfim-Melo A; Currin-Ross D; Duong CN; Kalappurakkal JM; Morris RG; Vestweber D; Mayor S; Gordon E; Roca-Cusachs P; Yap AS, 2023, 'An E-cadherin-actin clutch translates the mechanical force of cortical flow for cell-cell contact to inhibit epithelial cell locomotion', Developmental Cell, 58, pp. 1748 - 1763.e6,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Noordstra I; Morris RG; Yap AS, 2023, 'Cadherins and the cortex: A matter of time?', Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 80,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Brown JWP; Alford RG; Walsh JC; Spinney RE; Xu SY; Hertel S; Berengut JF; Spenkelink LM; Van Oijen AM; B枚cking T; Morris RG; Lee LK, 2022, 'Rapid Exchange of Stably Bound Protein and DNA Cargo on a DNA Origami Receptor', ACS Nano, 16, pp. 6455 - 6467,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Hertel S; Spinney RE; Xu SY; Ouldridge TE; Morris RG; Lee LK, 2022, 'The stability and number of nucleating interactions determine DNA hybridization rates in the absence of secondary structure', Nucleic Acids Research, 50, pp. 7829 - 7841,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Spinney RE; Lee L; Morris RG, 2022, 'Geometrical patterning of receptor sites controls kinetics via many-body effects in bivalent systems', Physical Review Research, 4,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2021, 'Active flows and deformable surfaces in development', Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 120, pp. 44 - 52,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Al-Izzi SC; Nodehi SG; K枚ster DV; Morris RG, 2021, 'More ATP Does Not Equal More Contractility: Power And Remodelling In Reconstituted Actomyosin', ,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Jhawar J; Morris RG; Amith-Kumar UR; Danny Raj M; Rogers T; Rajendran H; Guttal V, 2020, 'Noise-induced schooling of fish', Nature Physics, 16, pp. 488 - 493,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Morris RG; Husain KB; Budnar S; Yap AS, 2020, 'Anillin: The First Proofreading-like Scaffold?', Bioessays, 42,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Budnar S; Husain KB; Gomez GA; Naghibosadat M; Varma A; Verma S; Hamilton NA; Morris RG; Yap AS, 2019, 'Anillin Promotes Cell Contractility by Cyclic Resetting of RhoA Residence Kinetics', Developmental Cell, 49, pp. 894 - 906.e12,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Morris RG; Dafforn TR; Turner MS, 2019, 'Solvated Membrane Nanodiscoids: A Probe For The Effects Of Gaussian Curvature', ,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Morris RG; Rao M, 2019, 'Active morphogenesis of epithelial monolayers', Physical Review E, 100,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Morris RG; Yap AS, 2019, 'Erratum to: Wetting by living tissues (Nature Physics, (2019), 15, 1, (6-7), 10.1038/s41567-018-0316-4)', Nature Physics, 15, pp. 103,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Morris RG; Yap AS, 2019, 'Wetting by living tissues', Nature Physics, 15, pp. 6 - 7,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Jhawar J; Morris RG; Guttal V, 2018, 'Deriving mesoscopic models of collective behaviour for finite populations', Elsevier, 40, pp. 2019,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Morris RG, 2017, 'Signatures of Mechanosensitive Gating', Biophysical Journal, 112, pp. 3 - 9,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Morris RG; Turner MS, 2016, 'Erratum: Mobility Measurements Probe Conformational Changes in Membrane Proteins due to Tension (Physical Review Letters (2015) 115 (198101) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.198101)', Physical Review Letters, 116,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Morris RG; Turner MS, 2015, 'Mobility Measurements Probe Conformational Changes in Membrane Proteins due to Tension', Physical Review Letters, 115,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Caltagirone F; Franz S; Morris RG; Zdeborov谩 L, 2014, 'Dynamics and termination cost of spatially coupled mean-field models', Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, 89,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2014, 'Spatial effects: Transport on interdependent networks', Understanding Complex Systems, pp. 145 - 161,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Morris RG; Rogers T, 2014, 'Growth-induced breaking and unbreaking of ergodicity in fully-connected spin systems', Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, 47,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Morris RG, 2014, 'Relaxation and curvature-induced molecular flows within multicomponent membranes', Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, 89,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2013, 'Interdependent networks: The fragility of control', Scientific Reports, 3,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2012, 'Transport on coupled spatial networks', Physical Review Letters, 109,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Morris RG; McKane AJ, 2011, 'Stability of growing vesicles', Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, 83,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Morris RG; Fanelli D; McKane AJ, 2010, 'Dynamical description of vesicle growth and shape change', Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, 82,
  • Preprints | 2025
    Chacko LA; Nakaoka H; Morris R; Marshall W; Ananthanarayanan V, 2025, Mitochondrial function regulates cell growth kinetics to actively maintain mitochondrial homeostasis.,
    Preprints | 2025
    Eckert J; Andrews T; Pollard J; Priya R; Yap A; Morris R, 2025, Capturing Nematic Order on Tissue Surfaces of Arbitrary Geometry,
    Preprints | 2025
    Pollard J; Morris RG, 2025, Geometric Frustration in Twist-Bend Nematic Droplets,
    Preprints | 2025
    Worsfold JR; Morris RG, 2025, Noise-induced cycles in the Togashi-Kaneko model with species-dependent degradation,
    Preprints | 2025
    Worsfold JR; Morris RG, 2025, Stochastically bistable growth and decay in the Togashi-Kaneko model,
    Preprints | 2024
    Currin-Ross D; Al-Izzi SC; Noordstra I; Yap AS; Morris RG, 2024, Advecting Scaffolds: Controlling The Remodelling Of Actomyosin With Anillin,
    Preprints | 2024
    Pollard J; Al-Izzi S; Morris RG, 2024, Gauge Freedom and Objective Rates in the Morphodynamics of Fluid Deformable Surfaces: the Jaumann Rate vs. the Material Derivative,
    Preprints | 2024
    Pollard J; Morris RG, 2024, Defect Dynamics in Cholesterics: Beyond the Peach-Koehler Force,
    Preprints | 2024
    Pollard J; Morris RG, 2024, Morse Theory and Meron Mediated Interactions Between Disclination Lines in Nematics,
    Preprints | 2024
    Rautu A; Morris R; Rao M, 2024, Active morphodynamics of intracellular organelles in the trafficking pathway,
    Preprints | 2024
    Rautu SA; Morris RG; Rao M, 2024, Active morphodynamics of intracellular organelles in the trafficking pathway,
    Preprints | 2024
    Spinney RE; Morris RG, 2024, A Dean-Kawasaki equation for reaction diffusion systems driven by Poisson noise,
    Preprints | 2024
    Spinney RE; Morris RG, 2024, Non-Stationary Critical Phenomena: Expanding The Critical Point,
    Preprints | 2023
    Dickson CF; Hertel S; Ruan J; Ariotti N; Tuckwell A; Li N; Al-Izzi SC; Sierecki E; Gambin Y; Morris RG; Towers GJ; B枚cking T; Jacques DA, 2023, Karyopherin mimicry explains how the HIV capsid penetrates nuclear pores,
    Preprints | 2022
    Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2022, Morphodynamics of Active Nematic Fluid Surfaces,
    Preprints | 2022
    Brown JWP; Alford R; Walsh J; Spinney R; Xu S; Hertel S; Berengut J; Spenkelink L; van Oijen A; B枚cking T; Morris R; Lee L, 2022, Rapid exchange of stably bound protein and DNA cargo on a DNA origami receptor,
    Preprints | 2022
    Crosato E; Philippson JN; Thutupalli S; Morris RG, 2022, Dynamical phases in growing populations: understanding recovery from bottlenecks,
    Preprints | 2022
    Crosato E; Philippson JN; Thutupalli S; Morris RG, 2022, Rethinking Population Bottlenecks: Intrinsic Fluctuations, Mutation and Dynamical Demographic Phases,
    Preprints | 2022
    Spinney RE; Lee LK; Morris RG, 2022, Bivalent Kinetics: Insights from Many Body Physics,
    Preprints | 2021
    Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2021, Active Flows and Deformable Surfaces in Development,
    Preprints | 2021
    Al-Izzi SC; Nodehi SG; K枚ster DV; Morris RG, 2021, More ATP Does Not Equal More Contractility: Power And Remodelling In Reconstituted Actomyosin,
    Preprints | 2021
    Hertel S; Spinney R; Xu S; Ouldridge T; Morris R; Lee L, 2021, Mechanisms underlying sequence-dependent DNA hybridisation rates in the absence of secondary structure,
    Preprints | 2021
    Noordstra I; Hermoso MD; Schimmel L; Bonfim-Melo A; Currin-Ross D; Duong CN; Kalappurakkal JM; Morris RG; Vestweber D; Mayor S; Gordon E; Cusachs PR; Yap AS, 2021, An E-cadherin-actin clutch translates the mechanical force of cortical flow for cell-cell contact to inhibit epithelial cell locomotion,
    Preprints | 2019
    Jhawar J; Morris RG; Amith-Kumar UR; Raj MD; Harikrishnan R; Guttal V, 2019, Noise-Induced Schooling of Fish,
    Preprints | 2019
    Morris RG; Dafforn TR; Turner MS, 2019, Solvated Membrane Nanodiscoids: A Probe For The Effects Of Gaussian Curvature,
    Preprints | 2018
    Budnar S; Husain KB; Gomez GA; Naghibosidat M; Verma S; Hamilton NA; Morris RG; Yap AS, 2018, Scaffolding of RhoA contractile signaling by anillin: a regulatory analogue of kinetic proofreading,
    Preprints | 2018
    Jhawar J; Morris RG; Guttal V, 2018, Deriving mesoscopic models of collective behaviour for finite populations,
    Preprints | 2017
    Morris RG; Rao M, 2017, Covariant Active Hydrodynamics of Shape-Changing Epithelial Monolayers,
    Preprints | 2017
    Morris RG, 2017, Signatures of Mechanosensitive Gating,
    Preprints | 2015
    Morris RG; Turner MS, 2015, Mobility Measurements Probe Conformational Changes in Membrane Proteins due to Tension,
    Preprints | 2014
    Morris RG; Rogers T, 2014, Growth-induced breaking and unbreaking of ergodicity in fully-connected spin systems,
    Preprints | 2013
    Caltagirone F; Franz S; Morris R; Zdeborov谩 L, 2013, Dynamics and termination cost of spatially coupled mean-field models,
    Preprints | 2013
    Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2013, Interdependent networks: the fragility of control,
    Preprints | 2013
    Morris RG, 2013, Relaxation and curvature-induced molecular flows within multicomponent membranes,
    Preprints | 2012
    Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2012, Transport on coupled spatial networks,
    Preprints | 2010
    Morris RG; Fanelli D; McKane AJ, 2010, Dynamical description of vesicle growth and shape change,
    Preprints | 2010
    Morris RG; McKane AJ, 2010, Stability of growing vesicles,

Richard is currently funded via 黑料网大事记's participation in the 听program. He jointly holds an听 Discovery Project (DP240103034) and a Ideas Grant (APP2003832). He is also a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the 听(MACSYS, CE230100001)

听

Richard is interested in animate, living matter. His develops the tools and techniques needed to understand animate matter the same way that a physicist understands inanimate matter. This involves drawing upon concepts from non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, active soft matter, and applied mathematics. Richard is part of the and works across the and the School of Biomedical Sciences (). He is also affiliated with the Australian Centre of Excellence for the (MACSYS), and coordinates the national webinar series, which showcases leading research at the interface of physics and biology.

My Research Supervision

Richard's team currently comprises five postdocs, one PhD candidate and two Hons. students. Richard is also co-supervisor to a further two PhD students.听

My Teaching

Richard currently teaches Hons. (4th year) Statistical Physics.