Research Interests
Physics
Research Statement
Marco G. Mazza holds a Laurea degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Catania, Italy. He finished his PhD on the physics of supercooled water under the supervision of H. Eugene Stanley at Boston University, Boston, USA, in 2009. He then worked on computer simulations of confined liquid crystals as a postdoctoral fellow at the Technische Universit_t Berlin, Germany, under the supervision of Martin Schoen. Since 2012, he has led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in G_ttingen, Germany, in the department of Stephan Herminghaus. His scientific interests include the statistical physics of nonequilibrium system, particularly in soft matter, such as liquid crystals (e.g. topological defects in presence of flow), granular matter (e.g. nonequilibrium phase transitions), and active swimmers (collective states and their statistical description).
