Our work is devoted to the theoretical analysis of various soft condensed matter systems: from desert dunes spontaneously developing as a generic consequence of aeolian sand transport, through non-equilibrium dynamics of colloids, proteins and polymers, the viscoelastic and inelastic mechanics of the cytoskeleton, to the tension propagation in single DNA molecules under strong external fields. (Related experimental work is currently in progress at EXP1: MON, MOP, PWM.) A common feature is the presence of strong fluctuations and stochastic dynamics on the microscale. The emergence of the macroscopic structure and transport is to be understood. The applied methods comprise a broad statistical mechanics toolbox including stochastic (integro-)differential equations, liquid-state theories, effective hydrodynamic equations, various systematic coarse-graining techniques, and massively parallel numerical simulations on GPUs.
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Member of the following research associations:
Von Molekülen und Nanoobjekten zu multifunktionalen Materialien und Prozessen
Mathematik und ihre Anwendungen in den Naturwissenschaften
Graduiertenschule BuildMoNa
Forschergruppe FOR877: From local constraints to macroscopic transport

NEW NEWS:
Gentner Symposium "Aeolian Processes" - Symposium "Hot Nano"
OLD NEWS:
RISE students ; Canoeing on the Unstrut; Wissenschaftssommer

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