Computational condensed matter physics with an emphasis on mesoscopic properties and functionalities of soft matter. Phenomena and materials of interest include:
Liquid-crystalline and near-crystalline order
Molecular and supramolecular chirality
Wetting phenomena
Conjugated polymers
Nanocomposites
Multicomponent polymers and mixtures
Amphiphilic membranes and vesicles
Linking particle-based modeling methods to continuum phase-field models and classical density functional theory of liquids
Particle-based simulation algorithms and numerical field-theoretical methods
Creating strong synergies between theory and experiments to answer fundamental and application-relevant questions
