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.