Prof. Dr. Arjun G. Yodh

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsExperimental Condensed Matter Physics,Statistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics
Keywordssoft matter, Brownian dynamics, colloidal dispersions

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityPhiladelphia
InstitutionPennsylvania State University (PennState)
InstituteDepartment of Physics and Astronomy

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hartmut LöwenInstitut für Theoretische Physik II, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Stefan U. EgelhaafInstitut für Theoretische Physik II, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2016

Programme(s)

2015Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Yodh is a leading international scientist in the areas of soft condensed matter physics and biomedical optics. He is well known for ground-breaking experiments manipulating, measuring and using entropic forces to control assembly in colloidal suspensions, for creative use of temperature-sensitive polymers and microgel spheres in his studies, and for research with lyotropic liquid crystals. In Germany, he will study the physics of non-equilibrium phenomena, namely disorder-order transitions and artificial colloidal micro-swimmers.