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Prof. Dr. Thomas Franosch

Address:

Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Staudtstraße 7
D-91058 Erlangen
Germany

Office: Building B3, Room 01.783
Phone: +49 9131 85 28443
Fax: +49 9131 85 28444

e-mail: thomas.franosch@physik.uni-erlangen.de

Research Interests

Slow and anomalous transport in heterogeneous media
Entangled Dynamics of Stiff Biopolymers
Driven one-dimensional transport, molecular motors and spintronics
Molecular self-assembly, ordering phenomena in two-dimensional systems
Hydrodynamics on Micro- and Nanoscales, Microfluidics
Brownian Motion at short time scales in confinement in complex fluids

Further Interests:

Mode-coupling theory of the glass transition
Light scattering in supercooled liquids
Constitutive equations in complex fluids

Open positions

Diploma/Master project: Fluidströmung durch poröse Medien
Diploma/Master project: Brownian Motion of elliptical particles in an optical trap
Diploma/Master project: Trapping forces for microsized particles by focused laser light

Workshop 'Complex transport in strongly interacting systems'

Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics in Munich during July 25-27 2012
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/lsfrey/conferences/complex11/index.html