Soft Matter Theory Group

PhD students:

  • Matthias Gimperlein
  • PhD student
  • FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7, B3, Room 02.583
  • +49-9131-85-28450, matthias.gimperlein(at)fau.de
  • Soft Matter in Non-Equilibrium: Colloidal Gels and Glasses                                               
  • Robert F.B. Weigel
  • PhD student
  • FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7, B3, Room 01.782
  • +49-9131-85-28440, robert.rw.weigel(at)fau.de
  • Phase field crystal model of patchy colloids                                                        

Master students:

  • Jonas Buba
  • Master student
  • FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7, B3
  • Mean field theory of active particles with hard cores                                                     
  • Mishael Derla
  • Master student
  • FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7, B3
  • Models of directed percolation                                                    

Further Research Projects:

  • Stefan Wolf
  • FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7, B3
  • Growth of quasicrystalline structures                                                                                                          

Alumni:

At FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg:
  • Dominic Arold (MS 2019↗)
  • Thomas Axmann (MS 2024↗)
  • Jonas Buba (BS 2021↗)
  • Benedikt Decker (MS 2017↗)
  • Mishael Derla (BS 2023↗)
  • Ali Döner (BS 2019↗)
  • Florian Fleischmann (BS 2019↗)
  • Anja Gemeinhardt (MS 2018↗)
  • Dominik Geyer (BS 2017↗)
  • Rafael Grub (Zulassungsarbeit 2019↗)
  • Sönke Harms(BS 2024↗)
  • Jakob Hack (BS 2022↗)
  • Markus Hoffmann (BS 2019↗)
  • Laura Herold (Research Project 2016)
  • Ardin Ibraimi (BS 2017↗)
  • Marco Klement (PhD 2021, work done in the group of Prof. Michael Engel↗, Dissertation: Computational Studies of Anisotropic Particles↗)
  • Jamin Krieger (BS 2024)
  • Yang Kuang (MS 2018↗)
  • Katharina Lenk (BS 2017↗)
  • Denise Lichthardt (Research Project 2020)
  • Miriam Martinsons (PhD 2019, Dissertation: Phasonic Degrees of Freedom in Quasicrystals↗)
  • Moumita Maiti (postdoc until 2017)
  • Martin Majewski (BS 2020↗)
  • Sebastian Ruß (BS 2017↗, MS 2022)
  • Emanuel Schieck (BS 2024↗)
  • Johannes Schumann (Research Project 2018)
  • Johannes Schöttner (BS 2019↗, MS 2023↗)
  • Leander Self (MS 2020↗)
  • Ricardo Atahualpa Solórzano Kraemer (postdoc until 2016, guest in 2024, now Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México↗)
  • Maximilian Vieweg (BS 2021↗)
  • Moritz Villmow (BS 2018↗)
  • Nicolas Wohlleben (BS 2019↗)
  • Melanie Wolf (BS 2024↗, work done in the group of Prof. Tobias Reichenbach↗)
  • Stefan Wolf (BS 2019↗)

At HHU Düsseldorf:
  • Elmar Effertz (Diploma 2013)
  • Matthias Kohl (PhD 2015, Dissertation: Structure and dynamics of Soft Matter systems: bidisperse stackings, broken symmetries, gel networks↗)
  • Miriam Martinsons (MS 2013)
  • Georgina Mastrokoukos (BS 2013, MS 2015)
  • Lars Milz (BS 2012, now Universität Regensburg↗)
  • Erdal C. Oğuz (postdoc until 2014, now Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
  • Sydney Otten (BS 2013)
  • Matthias Sandbrink (PhD 2015, Dissertation: Tailored Colloidal Quasicrystals↗)
  • Theses in our group sorted by year: ↗.
  • List of members in the groups at the Institute of Theoretical Physics 1 (without bachelor students): ↗.