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Chair Löwen

Research

• Collective behaviour of active particles
• Structure, dynamics and phase transitions in colloidal suspensions
• Statistical mechanics of interfaces
• Nonequilibrium phenomena, glass transition, nucleation
• Computer simulations
• Density functional theory
• Polymers, polyelectrolytes and liquid crystals
• Biological physics: bacterial motility, protein crystallization, DNA
• Dusty plasmas

Cooperations

• Member of the Science Priority Program SPP 2265 "Random geometric systems" of the DFG
• Member of the ITN Active Matter of the EU
• Member of the Science Priority Program SPP 1681 "Magnetic Hybrid Materials" of the DFG
• Member of the Science Priority Program SPP 1726 "Microswimmers - from single particles to collective behavior" of the DFG
• Dr. A. Ivlev (Garching): "Active complex plasmas" funded by the DFG
• Prof. Dr. A. Voigt (Dresden): "Liquid crystalline phases on manifolds" funded by the DFG
• Prof. Dr. S. Egelhaaf (Düsseldorf): "Colloids in light fields" funded by the DFG
• Prof. Dr. N. Vogel (Erlangen): "Microgel particles" funded by the DFG
• Prof. Dr. C. Bechinger (Stuttgart): "Active colloidal particles" funded by the DFG within SPP 1726 and within ITN
• Prof. Dr. L. Janssen (Eindhoven): "Breathing particles" funded by DFG
• Prof. Dr. S. Apolinario (Pernambuco): "Colloidal clusters"
• Dr. A. Mathijssen (Stanford): "Active carpets"
• Dr. E. Allahyarov (Duisburg-Essen): "Liquid crystals on manifolds" funded by the DFG
• Dr. C. Du (Shanghai): "Complex plasmas" funded by the DFG
• Prof. Dr. R. Wittkowski (Münster): "Dynamical density functional theory"
• Prof. Dr. L. Isa (ETH Zürich): "Programmable microswimmers" funded by ITN
• Prof. Dr. G. Volpe (Gothenburg) "Mixtures of microswimmers" funded by ITN
• Prof. Dr. D. Aarts (Oxford) "Liquid crystals in confinement" funded by DFG
• Prof. Dr. T. Franosch (Innsbruck) "Dynamical correlations"
• Prof. Dr. A. Be´er (Beerscheva) "Bacterial swarms"
• Prof. Dr. P. Royall (Bristol) "Colloids in nonequilibrium" funded by Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation
• Prof. Dr. B. Liebchen (Darmstadt) "Microswimmers"
• Prof. Dr. T. Pöschel (Erlangen) "Granular Matter"
• Prof. Dr. Z.-F. Huang (Wayne) "Phase field crystal models"
• Prof. Dr. J. Simmchen (Dresden) "Anisotropic microswimmers"
• Prof. Dr. J. Brader (Fribourg) "Density functiional theory"

Publications

• Collected publications H. Löwen