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Latest News
- 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.
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Job announcements
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Postdoc scholarship to perform research on hydrodynamics of microswimmers in a nematic liquid crystal
Research topic:
To perform theoretical and numerical investigation of the behavior of self-propelled active chiral microswimmers in a nematic liquid crystal.
Funding:
via Haushaltsmittel and overheads of Dr. A. Daddi-Moussa-Ider.
Duration of position:
1.04.2021 - 30.06.2021
Qualifications:
PhD degree in physics or applied math, previous postdoctoral research experience (at least 2 years), strong computational and theoretical skills, experience in computer simulations, basic knowledge in fluid mechanics, in particular in low-Reynolds-number hydrodynamics and Stokes flow.
Application deadline:
1 January 2021, please apply with the headword "Postdoc scholarship on swimming in lc" by email to ider <at> thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de including a short CV.
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Postdoc scholarship to perform research on active granular particles
Research topic:
To perform theoretical and numerical investigations of the dynamics of anisotropic self-propelled active particles, in particular vibrated granules with a close connection to in-house experiments.
Funding:
via Haushaltsmittel of Prof. H. Löwen.
Duration of position:
15.5.2021 - 14.5.2022
Qualifications:
PhD degree in physics, strong computational and theoretical skills, experience in computer simulations, basic knowledge in statistical mechanics, in particular in the physics of active matter and granules.
Application deadline:
20 January 2021, please apply with the headword "Postdoc scholarship on active granular particles" by email to hlowen <at> hhu.de including a short CV.
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