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Marjolein Dijkstra is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of intelligent soft matter, a field that merges materials science, physics, and cognitive science to create materials with life-like capabilities such as perception, learning, and adaptive behavior. Her most cited work, "Intelligent soft matter: towards embodied intelligence" (2025, 16 citations), lays the conceptual foundation for this transformative area, promising to revolutionize how we design and interact with materials. Dijkstra’s contributions extend to soft robotics, where she investigates autonomous locomotion—for example, in "Rolling of stimuli-bent cylindrical robots using contact finite element simulations" (2025, 3 citations)—using complex multiphysics simulations to understand how soft, stimuli-responsive structures can navigate environments. She also explores self-organization in confined spaces, as in "Steering self-organisation through confinement" (2022, 3 citations), which reveals how spatial constraints can guide the spontaneous emergence of patterns across scales, from physics to biology. With a growing citation impact and a focus on embodied intelligence, Dijkstra’s work is shaping the next generation of adaptive materials and robotic systems, offering profound insights for students and researchers in physics, materials science, and robotics.