Institute for Theoretical Physics IV

The world around us is complex and out of equilibrium. Our goal is to expose and model the physical principles underlying the self-organization and collective behavior on the molecular and colloidal scale. We study mainly minimal models that capture universal aspects of the underlying physics and use a combination of numerical and analytical tools from statistical physics.

Collaborations and Funding

We are part of

• Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 1551
  Polymer Concepts in Cellular Function
• Sonderforschungsbereich SFB/TRR 146
  Multiscale Simulation Methods for Soft Matter Systems
• Graduiertenkolleg GRK 2516
  Structure Formation of Soft Matter at Interfaces
• CECAM-DE-SMSM
  CECAM node Mainz-Darmstadt-Stuttgart