| Activity induced nematic order in isotropic liquid crystals S Santhosh, MR Nejad, A Doostmohammadi, JM Yeomans, SP Thampi Journal of Statistical Physics 180 (1), 699-709, 2020 | 54 | 2020 |
| Role of friction in multidefect ordering K Thijssen, MR Nejad, JM Yeomans arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.01164, 2020 | 46 | 2020 |
| Active extensile stress promotes 3D director orientations and flows MR Nejad, JM Yeomans Physical Review Letters 128 (4), 048001, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| Geometrical control of interface patterning underlies active matter invasion H Xu, MR Nejad, JM Yeomans, Y Wu Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (30), e2219708120, 2023 | 22 | 2023 |
| Memory effects, arches and polar defect ordering at the cross-over from wet to dry active nematics MR Nejad, A Doostmohammadi, JM Yeomans Soft Matter 17 (9), 2500-2511, 2021 | 22 | 2021 |
| Stress-shape misalignment in confluent cell layers MR Nejad, LJ Ruske, M McCord, J Zhang, G Zhang, J Notbohm, ... Nature Communications 15 (1), 3628, 2024 | 20 | 2024 |
| Collective rotational motion of freely expanding T84 epithelial cell colonies F Ascione, S Caserta, S Esposito, VR Villella, L Maiuri, MR Nejad, ... Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20 (199), 20220719, 2023 | 17 | 2023 |
| Chemotaxis mediated interactions can stabilize the hydrodynamic instabilities in active suspensions MR Nejad, A Najafi Soft Matter 15 (15), 3248-3255, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
| Spontaneous Rotation of Active Droplets in Two and Three Dimensions M R. Nejad, JM Yeomans PRX Life 1 (2), 023008, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
| Cellular dynamics emerging from turbulent flows steered by active filaments MR Nejad, JM Yeomans, SP Thampi arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.05971, 2025 | 4 | 2025 |
| Quadrupolar active stress induces exotic patterns of defect motion in compressible active nematics SA Sultan, MR Nejad, A Doostmohammadi Soft Matter 18 (21), 4118-4126, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| Interplay of quenching temperature and drift in brownian dynamics H Khalilian, MR Nejad, AG Moghaddam, CM Rohwer Europhysics Letters 128 (6), 60006, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| Active nematics: a new approach to mechanobiology? JM Yeomans, S Bhattacharyya, MR Nejad Liquid Crystals, 1-9, 2025 | 2 | 2025 |
| Coarse-graining dense, deformable active particles MR Nejad, JM Yeomans Physical Review Research 7 (4), 043070, 2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Collective synchrony in confluent, pulsatile epithelia W Tang, MR Nejad, AF Pegoraro, L Mahadevan, M Guo arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.16772, 2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Distributed neural computation and the evolution of the first brains V Chandra, MR Nejad, AP Kann, A Salem, KAP Hill, L Mahadevan, ... bioRxiv, 2025.10. 03.680388, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Thin active nematohydrodynamic layers: asymptotic theories and instabilities MR Nejad, L Mahadevan arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16523, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Morphogenesis of active deformable shells MR Nejad, L Mahadevan SMT 2025, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Active matter invasion and morphogenesis H Xu, M Nejad, J Yeomans, Y Wu Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Continuum Description of Living Matter MR Nejad University of Oxford, 2024 | | 2024 |