Research
Our area of research is statistical physics of soft condensed matter, particularly colloidal suspensions, active systems, liquid crystals, and complex fluid mixtures.
Current foci of our research are:
- Phase transitions and non-equilibrium collective dynamics in external fields
- Transport in colloidal systems
- Self-assembly and self-organization
- Nucleation and growth
- Active fluids
- Stochastic thermodynamics
- Non-equilibrium systems under feedback control
- Confinement effects
We employ a spectrum of theoretical and numerical methods such as particle-based computer simulations, classical density functional theory, Langevin- and Fokker-Planck equations, coarse-graining strategies, continuum equations and tools from nonlinear dynamics.