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November 2023: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf "Emulsionströpfchen kontrolliert stabilisieren und aufbrechen" (German only) about a publication in Nature Communications.
September 2023: The work by I. Abdoli was reviewed in Europhysics News - highlight from epl in the spotlights scan.
July 2023: The SigmaPhi Prize is awarded to Hartmut Löwen for his seminal contributions to Statistical Physics.
Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
"Statistische Physik: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Löwen mit SigmaPhi-Preis geehrt" (German only).
June 2023: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
Dr. Subhasish Chaki post doc research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung at the Institut for Theoretical Physics II
"Physik: Humboldt-Forschungsstipendiat an der HHU - Aktive Materie verstehen" (German only)

Foto: © HHU / Christoph Kawan
June 2023: Hartmut Löwen became a member of the investigation commission of the Österreichische Agentur für Wissenschaftliche Integrität (ÖAWI). Link
May 2023: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
"European Postdoctoral Fellowships - Zwei Stipendiaten in europäischem Nachwuchsförderprogramm an der HHU" (German only)
March 2023: Youtube Video for ACDC (Acoustic Crystallization of Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals), Advanced Materials 2022, 2206593 (2022)
February 2023: The work of Falko Schmid et al in Nature Physics Link was highlighted by Victoria Esteso Carrizo in Nature Physics 19, 161–162 (2022) Report
February 2023: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
"95 Promotionen in der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät Informatikerin und Physiker für hervorragende Dissertationsarbeiten geehrt" (German only)
January 2023: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
Dr. Isha Malhotra post doc research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung at the Institut for Theoretical Physics II
"Aktive Mikrogele für den intelligenten Wirkstofftransport" (German only)

Foto: © HHU / Christoph Kawan
January 2023: The publication "A one-dimensional three-state run-and-tumble model with a ‘cell cycle’" by Davide Breoni et al. was choosen for as synopsis in European Physical Journal. Link
December 2022: A figure from the publication by D. Breoni, F. Schwarzendahl, R. Blossey, H. Löwen, A one-dimensional three-state run-and-tumble model with a 'cell cycle', European Physical Journal E 45, 83 (2022) was selected for the journal cover page.
November 2022: The paper of M. R. Bailey et al, Physical Review E 106, L052602 (2022), was selected as an Editors' suggestion.
November 2022: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf "Nano-Bauteile clever voneinander lösen" (German only) about a publication in Nature Physics.
October 2022: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf "Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Kurt Binder verstorben" (German only)
August 2022: The Physical Review Letter on odd-diffusive systems by Erik Kalz et al was selected as a PRL Editors' Suggestion
July 2022: Video about the research of Hartmut Löwen on biofilms with F. Guzman-Lastra and Arnold Matthijssen Link (in Spanish)
June 2022: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
Dr. Yuanjian Zheng post doc research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung at the Institut for Theoretical Physics II
"Die Unordnung beschreiben" (German only).

Foto: © HHU / Arthur Haltrich
March 2022: Hartmut Löwen was elected as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Leibniz-Institute for New Materials (Saarbrücken)
February 2022: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf: joint award ceremony HHU and BUW "Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Dissertationspreis" to HHU Physicist Dr. Federico Grasselli see press release (German only).

Foto: © HHU / Christoph Kawan
January 2022: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreisträger Prof. Dr. Christopher Patrick Royall an der HHU
Wie viele Fische braucht es für einen Schwarm? see Link (German only).

Foto: © HHU / Tizian Machtolf Foto: © HHU / Tizian Machtolf
January 2022: comment "Selfishness for the greater good revealed in optimization of group dynamics" in Physics World to our publication in PNAS.
January 2022: Short notice "Egoistisch optimiert" in the Physikjournal 21, 23 (2022) regarding a publication in PNAS.
December 2021: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf "Wie Bakterien aus Labyrinthen herausfinden" (German only) about a publication in Nature Communications. Another press release by the University of Princeton about that publication see Link.
November 2021: Dr. Isha Malhotra (Iowa State University, USA) received a postdoc fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation.
November 2021: Yuanjian Zheng (Singapore) received a postdoc fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation.
November 2021: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf "Three-bodyinteractions bring egoists into the collective comfort zone – even penguins" about a publication in PNAS. See Link
November 2021: The paper "Topology of Orientational Defects in Confined Smectic Liquid Crystals" by Paul Monderkamp and coworkers was selected for a synopsis in Physical Review Letters, seeLink
October 2021: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf "Humboldt-Forschungsstipendiat an der HHU - Aktive Materialien verstehen" (German only).

Foto: © HHU / Tizian Machtolf Foto: © HHU / Tizian Machtolf
October 2021: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf "Motorisierte Tröpfchen dank Rückkopplung" (German only) about a publication in Nature Communications.
July 2021: Dr. Lorenzo Caprini (Camerino, Italy) received a postdoc fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation.
May 2021: A figure from the publication by J. Harrer, S. Ciarella, M. Rey, H. Löwen, L. M. C. Janssen, N. Vogel, Collapse-induced phase transitions in binary interfacial microgel monolayers, Soft Matter 17, 4504-4516 (2021) was selected for the cover page.
April 2021: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf "Total abgedreht: Was Mikroroboter mit Seife zu tun haben" (German only) about a publication in Science Advances.
March 2021: Press report by University of Pennsylvania about a publication in Nature Communications. Link
March 2021: Press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf "Mikroskopische Fluktuationen helfen Bakterien bei der Arbeit" (German only) about a publication in Nature Communications.
February 2021: The work of Jens Grauer, Hartmut Löwen and Benno Liebchen on Covid19 vaccination strategies (publication) was highlighted in the Physik Journal 20 (2021) Nr.2 18-19 by Gerhard Gompper scan, 08.02.2021.
January 2021: press release by the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf "Liquid crystal under stress" about a joint publication with D. Aarts and coworkers (Oxford University) Flüssigkristalle unter Stress German only
December 2020: press release by University Münster Detective work in theoretical physics about a joint publication with Prof. Dr. R. Wittkowski
November 2020: The paper of A. R. Sprenger, V. A. Shaik, A. M. Ardekani, M. Lisicki, A. J. T. M. Mathijssen, F. Guzman-Lastra, H. Löwen, A. M. Menzel, A. Daddi-Moussa-Ider, Towards an analytical description of active microswimmers in clean and surfactant-covered drops – a note on the image system solution for force monopole and dipole singularities, European Physical Journal E 43, 58 (1-19) (2020) was highlighted in Link
November 2020: Physicist receives dissertation prize of the Heraeus-foundation HHU-Link
October 2020: The optimization of vaccination strategies against the corona pandemic was studied using an infection model in a publication by Jens Grauer, Hartmut Löwen and Benno Liebchen Presslink paper arxiv
September 2020: Our paper "Crowding-Enhanced Diffusion: An Exact Theory for Highly Entangled Self-Propelled Stiff Filaments" by Suvendu Mandal, Christina Kurzthaler, Thomas Franosch, and Hartmut Löwen (Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 138002 (2020)) was highlighted in the synopsis "Filaments Move Quickly Through a Crowd": Link
September 2020: A figure from the publication by A. R. Sprenger et al, Towards an analytical description of active microswimmers in clean and surfactant-covered drops – a note on the image system solution for force monopole and dipole singularities, European Physical Journal E 43, 58 (2020), was selected for the front cover page.
July 2020: A figure from the publication by A. R. Sprenger, M. A. Fernandez-Rodriguez, L. Alvarez, L. Isa, R. Wittkowski, H. Löwen, Active Brownian motion with orientation-dependent motility: experiments and theory, Langmuir 36 7066-7073 (2020), was selected for the front cover page.
May 2020: The publication by Benno Liebchen and Hartmut Löwen, Optimal navigation strategies for active particles EPL 127, 34003 (2019) was selected as an EPL highlight article for 2019, see
March 2019: An AIP Scilight article Modeling microparticle movement has been released about our current publication Colloidal Brazil nut effect in microswimmer mixtures induced by motility contrast in AIP The Journal of Chemical Physics.
March 2019: Prof. Löwen was selected as an outstanding referee 2018 for The Journal of Physics: Condensed matter. (Link)
January 2019: Prof. Löwen was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Chemical Physics. JCP Editorial Advisory Board
January 2019: Professor Löwen visits the University of Chile Link.
December 2018: press release of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: Inertial mini-robots leave the curve (German only).

December 2018:

A figure of the paper "Nutrient Transport Driven by Microbial Active Carpets"
by Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen, Francisca Guzmán-Lastra, Andreas Kaiser, and Hartmut Löwen
(Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 248101 (2018))
was selected for the cover page of Physical Review Letters, see Link.

December 2018: press release of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: Biofilms take care of their own nutrient supply. Biofilms take care of their own nutrient supply
June 2018: Prof. Löwen was selected as an outstanding referee 2017 for The Journal of Chemical Physics. HHU Press release
May 2018: Press release of Physics World: Physicists show how bacteria swim towards regions of higher viscosity (English only).
April 2018: Presserelease of Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: Fraktionszwang für tanzende Roboter (German only).
March 2018: The Physical Review Letter on viscotaxis by Benno Liebchen et al was selected as a PRL Editors' Suggestion.
March 2018: Hartmut Löwen was appointed as a Coeditor of European Physical Letters (EPL).
March 2018: A Figure from a paper by J. Grauer, H. Löwen and L. M. C. Janssen was selected by the Physical Journal E for the journal "Kaleidoscope", see Link.
March 2018: Prof. Löwen is one of the "Outstanding Reviewer Award winners for 2017" for the New Journal of Physics. Link
December 2017: Claudius Deters was awarded with a NRW Chancen-Nutzen scholarship.
November 2017: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Andreas M. Menzel received the prize from the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der HHU for his habilitation thesis "Tuned, driven, and active soft matter". HHU Wissenschaftspreise 2016
April 2017: Press release of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf about the research project of Humboldt-fellow Dr. Segun Goh Kuriose Materialien mit spannenden Anwendungsmöglichkeiten (German).

Foto: Foto: Jochen Müller / HHU Foto: Foto: Jochen Müller / HHU
March 2017: Dr. Segun Goh (Seoul, Korea) received a postdoc fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation.
Januar 2017: Press release of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: "Physiker Prof. Dr. Hartmut Löwen zum “Outstanding Referee 2017” gewählt". Press release (German)
November 2016: Alexander Sprenger was awarded with a NRW Chancen-Nutzen scholarship.
November 2016: Press release (German) of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf about the current publication Fission and fusion scenarios for magnetic microswimmer clusters in Nature Communications by Francisca Guzmán Lastra, Andreas Kaiser & Hartmut Löwen.

Snapshot of a "Waddling dance" after the fusion
of ten swimming micromagnets.

(Image: Andreas Kaiser)

additional press report at pro-physik.de
November 2016:
Press report (German) of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf about Dr. Liesbeth M. C. Janssen who received a postdoc fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung.

Foto: Foto: Jochen Müller / HHU Foto: Foto: Jochen Müller / HHU
Oktober 2016: Publication Directly probing anisotropy in atom–molecule collisions through quantum scattering resonances in Nature Physics with Dr. Liesbeth M. C. Janssen.
Oktober 2016: Radiointerview of Prof. Dr. C. Bechinger, Max-Planck-Institut Stuttgart Mikro-Roboter im Körper (German).
September 2016: press release "Mit Mikropartikeln in die Finsternis" (German) of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf about the current publication Phototaxis of synthetic microswimmers in optical landscapes in Nature Communications.
August 2016: Dr. Borge ten Hagen has received a postdoc-fellowship from the DFG.
July 2016: Dr. Liesbeth M. C. Janssen received a postdoc fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung.
July 2016: Prof. Arjun Yodh (Penssylvania) is new Humboldt Prize Winner and will do research on soft matter in strong collaboration with our institut, see press release...
June 2016: press release "Licht setzt aktive Materialien in Bewegung" (German) of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf about the current publication in Science Advances.
May 2016: Prof. Löwen was selected as an outstanding referee 2015 for The Journal of Chemical Physics.
April 2016: Dr. Raphael Wittkowski received an Emmy-Noether-fellowship from the German Research Foundation.
January 2016: The work on colloidal clutches by I. Williams, E. C. Oğuz, P. Bartlett, T. Speck, H. Löwen, C. P. Royall was highlighted in the Physik Journal 15 (2016) Nr.1 19f (pdf).
January 2016: Düsseldorf publication on a colloidal clutch was shown on the cover page of Nature Physics Coverpage.
Dezember 2015: Humboldt interviews with Dr. F. Smallenburg and Prof. Dr. H. Löwen, press release and more detailed press release.
October 2015: press release "Kuppeln im Nanobereich" (German) of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf about the current publication in Nature Physics.
August 2015: Prof. Löwen was interviewed on: JPhys+.
July 2015: The work on colloidal crystallization by E. Allahyarov, K. Sandomirki, S. Egelhaaf and H. Löwen was highlighted in the Physik Journal 14 (2015) 20-21 (pdf).
May 2015: Publication in Nature Communications - press release (in German) "Eiskristalle unter Kontrolle" (ice crystals under control) of the HHU.
May 2015: Dr. Andreas Kaiser has received a postdoc-fellowship from the DFG.
May 2015: The paper Physical Review X 5, 011035 (2015) by A. V. Ivlev, J. Bartnick, M. Heinen, C.-R. Du, V. Nosenko and H. Löwen was discussed in: phys.org.

November 2014: New Humboldt fellow

Dr. Frank Smallenburg has received a postdoc fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung which enables him to do research about active colloids in the group of Prof. Dr. Löwen. HHU press release.

Humboldt-Forschungsstipendiat 20141203 Dr. Smallenburg

Foto: Jessica Hatton
Copyright: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

November 2014:

Prof. H. Löwen hands over the function of the confident person for the German Science Foundation to Prof. S. Egelhaaf - press release

Egelhaaf-Loewen_DFG-Vertrauensdozent hand over

Foto: Robin Aust / Copyright: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

October 2014: The work on gravitaxis by B. ten Hagen, H. Löwen and coworkers was highlighted in the Physik Journal 13 (2014) 21-23. Gravitaxis (pdf, 630kB)
September 2014: Publication in Nature Communications - press releases "Amoebe grüß mir die Sonne" of the HHU and "Ein Pantoffeltierchen will nach oben " of the Max-Planck-Institute Stuttgart, Gravitaxis Bechinger Group webpage at University Stuttgart with radio report in DRadio Wissen.
July 2014: Hartmut Löwen was elected to become a member of the senate of the German Science Foundation, see press release.
March 2014: Dr. Erdal C. Oğuz has received a postdoc fellowship from the DFG.
March 2014: Prof. Dr. Ethayaraja Mani (Madras) has been financed by the DAAD for a research project on soft matter physics.
March 2014: Dr. Marco Heinen has received a postdoc fellowship from the DAAD.
October 2013: Publication in Nature Communications - press releases Squeezing in the micro-domain of Bristol university and Druck in der kleinsten Zelle messen of the HHU
August 2013: Press release on soft matter research. File (pdf, 172kB) (german)
August 2013: ASME placed a ASME Podcast: How Complex Fluids Behave in Outer Space to a project we contibute to.
August 2013: Press release - "Unruly Plamas" - Link
May 2013: The paper "Circular motion of asymmetric self-propelling particles" by Borge ten Hagen and coworkers was selected for a synopsis in Physical Review Letters, see Link to aps.org.
March 2013: Urs Zimmermann was awarded with a scholarship from the DAAD to do research with Dr. R. Dullens (Oxford University, UK).
February 2013: The book Complex plasmas and colloidal dispersions: particle-resolved studies of classical liquids and solids, (authors: A. V. Ivlev, H. Löwen, G. E. Morfill, C. P. Royall) was discussed by G. Maret in: Physik Journal 12, 46-47 (2013) (pdf) and by P. Pusey in: Phys. Today 66(2), 48 (2013) (pdf).
February 2013: Dr. Manis Chaudhuri (Garching) received an ERC Marie-Curie-Postdoc-grant, to perform research about complex plasmas at the Theoretische Physik II.
January 2013: Dr. Raphael Wittkowski was honored with the prize for the best dissertation of the year 2012 of the faculty of natural sciences. Link
January 2013: Prof. Dr. Kurt Binder (Mainz University) received an hononary doctoral degree of the faculty of natural sciences at the university of Düsseldorf. Link
November 2012 - A paper by Tobias Glanz and Hartmut Löwen on lane formation was highlighted as a LabTalk in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.Link
October 2012 - The work on active turbulence by H. H. Wensink, H. Löwen and coworkers was highlighted in the Physik-Journal Physik Journal 11 (2012) 21f (pdf).
October 2012 - Press release by University Düsseldorf Link and University Kiel Link about research about neutron stars on the earth.
October 2012 - Dr. Raphael Wittkowski has received a DFG Postdoc scholarship.
Theoretical prediction by Hartmut Löwen for colloidal crystals was verified experimentally. Physik Journal 11 (2012) 81ff (pdf)
May 2012 - The article by T. Kruppa, T. Neuhaus, R. Messina, H. Löwen, on "Soft repulsive mixtures under gravity: depletion bubbles, brazil-nut effect, boundary layering, nonequilibrium shaking", J. Chem. Phys. 136, 134106 (2012), was chosen as a Research Highlight featured on the journal website home page, see JCP.
January 2012 - Dr. Henricus Wensink assumed a CNRS research position in Paris.
January 2012 - Prof. Dr. H. Löwen received the medal of honors of the University of Düsseldorf, see here.
September 2011 - Dr. Rene Messina assumed a professorship at the University of Metz (France) starting on October 1st 2011.
Mai 2011 - Prof. H. Löwen is coordinating the German-Japanese bilateral cooperation Soft Matter in nonequilibrium funded by the DFG.
Pressreport at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf from 20.4.2011 about „Advanced Investigator Grant” of the European Research Council (ERC) for Prof. H. Löwen and Prof. Gregor Eugen Morfill (Max-Planck-Institut): Auszeichnung für herausragende Spitzenforschung und Exzellenz in Düsseldorf
2 Millionen Euro für Physiker der Heinrich-Heine-Universität here.
Pressreport at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf from 20.4.2011 Dr. Thomas Speck: Neuer Humboldt-Stipendiat in der Theoretischen Physik here.
Pressreport at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf from 24.3.2011 here about the Emmy-Noether fellowship.
March 2011 - Dr. Michael Schmiedeberg received an Emmy-Noether fellowship from the DFG.
March 2011 - Dr. Gboyega Adebayo (University of Abuja, Nigeria) was awarded with a three-month-visit fellowship from the DAAD in order to do joint research with Prof. H. Löwen.
Prof Dr. Hartmut Löwen was awarded with Prof. Dr. Gregor Morfill (MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching) with an ERC Advanced Grant for an interdisciplinary research project linking colloidal dispersions to complex plasmas.
Dr. Thomas Speck was awarded with a Feodor-Lynen-Rückkehrstipenium from the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation.
Matthias Kohl was awarded with a NRW Chancen-Nutzen scholarship.
Alumni report of Prof. Löwen for the Technical University of Dortmund is available: here.
Prof. Löwen was appointed to the ESA Physical Sciences Working Group.
Prof. H. Löwen was elected to become editor of the Springer book series "Theoretical and Mathematical Physics".
B. ten Hagen was awarded with a NRW Chancen-Nutzen scholarship.
H. H. Goetzke was awarded with a NRW Chancen-Nutzen scholarship.
U. Zimmermann was awarded with a Studienstiftung scholarship.
The work on lane formation by A. Wysocki and H. Löwen was highlighted in the Physik-Journal . (pdf, 734kB).
The SFB TR6 (under coordination of Prof. H. Löwen) was extended until 2013 . (pdf, 3kB) (german).
Dr. S. Apolinário has moved to permanent professorship position at the Universidada Federal de Serjipe in Aracaju (Brasil).
The paper of G. Kahl and H. Löwen (J. Phys.: Condensed Matter 21, 464101 (2009)) on heterogeneous crystal nucleation; was selected to be among the 17 Highlight Papers 2009 in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
A CECAM workshop on "Classical Density Functional Theory Methods in Soft and Hard Matter" is organized in October 2009 by Hartmut Löwen with Mikko Haataja (Princeton) and Laszlo Granasy (Brunel University).
Prof. H. Löwen is invited lecturer at the international "Third Warsaw School of Statistical Physics"
In a collaboration of A. Wysocki and H. Löwen with scientists from the Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik and Russian cosmonauts, space shuttle experiments reveal lane formation in dusty plasmas and were explained theoretically, see the article in Physical Review Letters which was selected as among the editors' suggestions.
A symposium on "Pattern formation in colloidal and granular systems" during the DPG March 2009 Meeting in Dresden is organized by S. Herminghaus, H. Löwen, and M. Schröter
Prof. Löwen was interviewed about the success of transregional collaborative centres in physics, see article (german only) by A. Hauck in the Physik Journal 7, No. 12 (December 2008), page 8 (2008).
Australian Humboldt fellow Prof. R. Robson visits Prof. H. Löwen, see press release
A recently published Highlight in Materials Today on the article Asymmetric caging in soft colloidal mixtures, including a commentary by Prof. Johan Bergenholtz.
11.-22. February 2008 Workshop: Crystallization and Jamming in Soft Matter under Driving - Colloidal Suspensions, Granular Media, Foams, and Complex Plasmas Lorentzcenter in Leiden organized by M. Sperl, S. Luding and H. Löwen
Gentner-Kastler-Preis 2003 goes to Prof. Löwen

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Snapshot of a "Waddling dance" after the fusion of ten swimming micromagnets.
	(Image: Andreas Kaiser)
additional press report at pro-physik.de