Disordered and Biological Soft Matter

We are an interdisciplinary group of physicists, mathematicians, engineers and biologists studying processes in disordered and out-of-equilibrium systems, where our interests are in light transport in turbid media, developmental biology and the dynamics of fluids, foams and granular gases.

We disseminate our work in particular, but the fascination of Physics in general in several outreach activities in schools and local community centres and finally teach Physics and quantitative Biology at all levels from introductory Bachelor courses to intermediate courses in quantum mechanics and relativity to Master-level courses in condensed matter and biological Physics.

All of these activities are described in the following pages in more detail. Below are a few articles in the press covering our research and outreach activities.

Some popular articles describing our work

Outreach discussed in Tagesanzeiger (PDF, 94 KB) (in German)

Levitated foams (PDF, 700 KB)

Turbid Microscopy (PDF, 290 KB)

Growth control by mechanical forces 2 (in German) (PDF, 171 KB)

Experiments combined with music for children (PDF, 68 KB) (in German)

Demonstration experiments with the four seasons in a theatre (in German)

Anderson Localization 1 (PDF, 242 KB)

Anderson Localization 2 (PDF, 534 KB)

Growth control by mechanical forces 1 (PDF, 170 KB)

Growth control by mechanical forces 3 (in German) (PDF, 625 KB)