Current research activities:

• Statics and dynamics of granular systems
• soft matter in space, experiments in microgravity
• probe-variable dependent glassy dynamics

Curriculum Vitae:

	2009	interim professorship in Physics, University of Göttingen
	since 2007	Scientific staff at the Institute of Material Physics in Space, German Aerospace Center, Cologne, Germany
	2006/07	Visiting scholar, Universität Göttingen, Germany
	2004-2006	Postdoc at Duke University, USA
	2003/04	Visiting scholar, Universität Konstanz, Germany
	2000-2003	Doctoral thesis research, Technische Universität München, Germany
	1999/2000	Diploma thesis research, Technische Universität München, Germany
	1998	Visiting scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and Santa Fe Institute, USA
	1993-1997	Study of Physics, Technische Universität München, Germany

Diploma, awards, functions:

	Diploma in Physics, Technische Universität München, 2000, thesis title: Glass Transition in Colloids with Attractive Interaction.
	PhD in Natural Sciences, Technische Universität München, 2003, thesis title: Asymptotic Laws near Higher-Order Glass-Transition Singularities
	Lectureship, Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, 2008/09
	2009 Robert-Wichard-Pohl-Medal

Selection of recent publications:

• T. S. Majmudar, M. Sperl, S. Luding, and R. P. Behringer: Jamming Transition in Granular Systems. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 058001 (2007).
• W.T. Kranz, M.Sperl and A.Zppelius: Glass Transition for Driven Granular Fluids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 225701 (2010).
• Matthias Sperl, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Francesco Sciortino, Pradeep Kumar and H. Eugene Stanley: Disconnected Glass-Glass Transitions and Diffusion Anomalies in a Model with Two Repulsive Length Scales. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 145701 (2010).
• Jie Zhang, T. S. Majmudar, M. Sperl and R. P. Behringer: Jamming for a 2D granular material, Soft Matter, 6, 2982 (2010).