Working at the interface of physics and biology, our group is interested in a diverse set of problems ranging from the motion of small organisms to the dynamics of human cognition. We leverage cross-disciplinary experimental collaborations to combine novel measurements with theoretical principles drawn from statistical physics, information theory and dynamical systems. In the natural wiggling of the roundworm C. elegans we derived a low-dimensional but complete basis of worm shape (eigenworms) which we are exploiting to construct a systems biophysics on the scale of an entire multi-cellular organism.