The asterisk * indicates co-first authorship. The hash # indicates co-corresponding authorship.

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

  1. A. Tahaei, R. Piscitello-Gómez, S. Suganthan, G. Cwikla, J. F. Fuhrmann, N. A. Dye, and M. Popović. Cell Divisions Imprint Long Lasting Elastic Strain Fields in Epithelial Tissues, PRX Life, 3, 043008 (2025).
  2. Y. Maroudas-Sacks, S. Suganthan, L. Garion, Y. Ascoli-Abbina, A. Westfried, N. Dori, I. Pasvinter, M. Popović#, K. Keren#. Mechanical strain focusing at topological defect sites in regenerating Hydra, Development, 152(4) (2025).
  3. Y. Maroudas-Sacks, L. Garion, S. Suganthan, M. Popović, K. Keren. Confinement modulates axial patterning in regenerating Hydra, PRX Life, 2, 043007 (2024).
  4. T. H. Tan*, A. Amiri*, I. Seijo-Barandiarán*, M. F. Staddon, A. Materne, S. Tomas, C. Duclut, M. Popović#, A. Grapin-Botton#, F. Jülicher#. Emergent chirality in active solid rotation of pancreas spheres, PRX Life, 2, 033006 (2024).
  5. J. F. Fuhrmann, A. Krishna, J. Paijmans, C. Duclut, G. Cwikla, S. Eaton, M. Popović, F. Jülicher, C. D. Modes, and N. A. Dye. Active shape programming drives Drosophila wing disc eversion, Science Advances, 10(32) (2024).
  6. T. Divoux et al. Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions, Soft Matter, 20, 6868-6888 (2024).
  7. A. Amiri, C. Duclut, F. Jülicher, M. Popović. Random traction yielding transition in epithelial tissues, Physical Review Letters, 131, 188401 (2023).
  8. R. Takaki, L. Jawerth, M. Popović#, F. Jülicher#. Theory of rheology and aging of protein condensates, PRX Life, 1, 013006 (2023).
  9. A. Tahaei, G. Biroli, M. Ozawa, M. Popović, M. Wyart. Scaling Description of Dynamical Heterogeneity and Avalanches of Relaxation in Glass-Forming Liquids, Physical Review X, 13, 031034 (2023).
  10. R. Piscitello-Gómez, F. S. Gruber, A. Krishna, C. Duclut, C. D. Modes, M. Popović, F. Jülicher, N. A. Dye, S. Eaton. Core PCP mutations affect short-time mechanical properties but not tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila pupal wing, eLife, 12, e85581 (2023).
  11. M. Popović, T. W. J. de Geus, W. Ji, A. Rosso, M. Wyart. Scaling description of creep flow in amorphous solids, Physical Review Letters, 129(20), 208001 (2022).
  12. S. R. Naganathan#, M. Popović#, A. C. Oates#. Left-right symmetry of zebrafish embryos requires somite surface tension, Nature, 605(7910), 516-521 (2022).
  13. M. Popović, T. W. J. de Geus, W. Ji, M. Wyart. Thermally activated flow in models of amorphous solids, Physical Review E, 104(2), 025010 (2021).
  14. N. A. Dye*, M. Popović*, K. V. Iyer, J. F. Fuhrmann, R. Piscitello-Gómez, S. Eaton, F. Jülicher. Self-organized patterning of cell morphology via mechanosensitive feedback, eLife, 10, e57964 (2021).
  15. M. Popović*, V. Druelle*, N. A. Dye, F. Jülicher, M. Wyart. Inferring the flow properties of epithelial tissues from their geometry, New Journal of Physics, 23, 033004 (2021).
  16. W. Ji, T. W. J. de Geus, M. Popović, E. Agoritsas, M. Wyart. Thermal origin of quasilocalized excitations in glasses, Physical Review E, 102, 062110 (2020).
  17. T. W. J. de Geus, M. Popović, W. Ji, A. Rosso, and M. Wyart. How collective asperity detachments nucleate slip at frictional interfaces, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(48), 23977-23983 (2019).
  18. W. Ji, M. Popović, T. W. J. de Geus, E. Lerner, and M. Wyart. Theory for the density of interacting quasi-localised modes in amorphous solids, Physical Review E, 99, 023003 (2019).
  19. M. Popović, T. W. J. de Geus, and M. Wyart. Elastoplastic description of sudden failure in athermal amorphous materials during quasistatic loading, Physical Review E (Rapid Communication), 98, 040901(R) (2018).
  20. N. A. Dye, M. Popović, S. Spannl, R. Etournay, D. Kainmüller, S. Ghosh, E. W. Myers, F. Jülicher, and S. Eaton. Cell dynamics underlying oriented growth of the Drosophila wing imaginal disc, Development (2017).
  21. M. Merkel, R. Etournay, M. Popović, G. Salbreux, S. Eaton, and F. Jülicher. Triangles bridge the scales: Quantifying cellular contributions to tissue deformation, Physical Review E, 95, 032401 (2017).
  22. M. Popović, A. Nandi, M. Merkel, R. Etournay, S. Eaton, F. Jülicher, and G. Salbreux. Active dynamics of tissue shear flow, New Journal of Physics, 19(3), 033006 (2017).
  23. R. Etournay*, M. Merkel*, M. Popović*, H. Brandl*, N. A. Dye, B. Aigouy, G. Salbreux, S. Eaton, and F. Jülicher. TissueMiner: a multiscale analysis toolkit to quantify how cellular processes create tissue dynamics, eLife, 5, e14334 (2016).
  24. R. Etournay*, M. Popović*, M. Merkel*, A. Nandi*, C. Blasse, B. Aigouy, H. Brandl, G. Myers, G. Salbreux, F. Jülicher, et al. Interplay of cell dynamics and epithelial tension during morphogenesis of the Drosophila pupal wing, eLife, 4, e07090 (2015).
  25. M. Popović, H. Štefančić, B. Sluban, P. K. Novak, M. Grčar, I. Možetič, M. Puliga, and V. Zlatić. Extraction of temporal networks from term co-occurrences in online textual sources, PLOS ONE, 9(12), e99515 (2014).
  26. M. Popović and A. Šiber. Lattice-gas Poisson-Boltzmann approach for sterically asymmetric electrolytes, Physical Review E, 88, 022302 (2013).
  27. M. Popović, H. Štefančić, and V. Zlatić. Geometric origin of scaling in large traffic networks, Physical Review Letters, 109, 208701 (2012).

Preprints

  1. M. F. Staddon, N. A. Dye, M. Popović#, F. Jülicher#. Cell proliferation maintains cell area polydispersity in the growing fruit fly wing epithelium, arXiv:2601.14509 (2026).
  2. J. Fuhrmann*, V. M. Schimmenti*, G. Cwikla, S. Lee, M. Yuan, M. Wilsch-Bräuninger, F. Jülicher, M. Popović#, N. A. Dye#. Apical extracellular matrix regulates fold morphogenesis in the Drosophila wing disc, bioRxiv 2025.09.06.674631 (2025).
  3. K. Chhajed, F. S. Gruber, R. Etournay, N. A. Dye, F. Jülicher, M. Popović. Cell size heterogeneity controls crystallization of the developing fruit fly wing, arXiv:2505.05437 (2025).
  4. M. Popović, J. Prost, F. Jülicher. Electrohydraulic activity of biological cells, arXiv:2211.06909 (2022).