Dr. Carl Modes is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) since 2017. Dr. Modes research focuses complex spatial networks and morphogenesis. Dr. Modes group seeks to leverage principles and methods of applied topology and geometry in order to better understand complex biological phenomena, with particular interest in the role of network complexity and the shape-organizing power of topological defects in such systems.