Valentin Pauli received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the Technical University of Munich in 2021. In his bachelor’s thesis, he focused on the microfluidic formation of lipid and peptide compartments. He started his master’s studies with a semester abroad at the University of Texas at Dallas and continued at the Technical University of Munich, where he specialized in biophysics. Since April 2023, he has been part of the BPM group, where he studies the network morphology of Physarum polycephalum in response to environmental effects.