Theoretical Physics with Focus on Complex Fluids

Current third party funding

Collaborative Research Center 910: Project B2: Control of dynamical structures and transport in driven colloidal systems

We are part of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 910 under the project B2: Control of dynamical structures and transport in driven colloidal systems!

Project summary:

The present project aims at developing control strategies for dynamical phenomena in colloidal systems. In the upcoming funding period we will focus on
a) open-loop and feedback control of oscillatory dynamics and local structure under shear
b) transport under a time-delayed feedback force
c) feedback control of spatiotemporal dynamics on the mesoscale.

New aspects concern the interplay of control and thermodynamics, as well as control in active systems.
We employ a spectrum of methods including stochastic delay equations, Fokker-Planck equations, particle-based simulations, and continuum theory.
The results will be relevant in the areas of rheology, nanotribology and single-particle manipulation.

DFG-Einzelprojekt: Nonreciprocal chiral active matter: Collective behavior and thermodynamics

DFG-Einzelprojekt KL 1215/12-1 Nonreciprocal chiral active matter: Collective behavior and thermodynamics

DFG-Einzelprojekt: Systematic variation of the rheology of wormlike micelles - experiment and theoretical description

DFG-Einzelprojekt KL 1215/10-1 Systematic variation of the rheology of wormlike micelles - experiment and theoretical description (in cooperation with Prof. M. Gradzielski)

DFG-Einzelprojekt: Self-assembly and self-organisation in fluctuating systems of dipolar colloids: Towards a coarse-grained theoretical description

DFG-Einzelprojekt KL 1215/11-1 Self-assembly and self-organisation in fluctuating systems of dipolar colloids: Towards a coarse-grained theoretical description