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Prof. Dr. Matthias Sperl

Prof. Dr. Matthias Sperl

German Aerospace Center
Institute of Materials Physics in Space
Linder Höhe
51147 Köln

Phone:+49 2203 601-3434
Fax:+49 2203 61768
Mail:Matthias Sperl

Current research activities:

statistical physics of disordered systems
statics and dynamics of granular matter
soft matter in space
experiments in microgravity

Curriculum Vitae:

	since 2016	Professor for Physics of Granular Matter, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
	since 2011	Group Leader Granular Matter, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, Germany
	2009	Professor/Acting Chair (Lehrstuhlvertretung), University of Göttingen, Germany
	2008/09	Lectureship (Lehrauftrag), University of Düsseldorf, Germany
	since 2007	Scientist, Institute for Materials Physics in Space, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, Germany
	2004-2006	Postdoc, Duke University, Durham, USA
	2003	PhD, Technical University of Munich, Germany
	2000	Diploma in Physics, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Diploma, awards, functions:

	Coordinator of Horizon 2020 project RegoLight, 2015-17
	Coordinator ESA Roadmap Soft Matter in Microgravity, 2016
	Coordinator ISS Instrument Soft-Matter Dynamics, 2013
	Robert-Wichard-Pohl Medal, Göttingen 2009
	PhD in Natural Sciences, 2003, thesis title: Asymptotic Laws near Higher-Order Glass-Transition Singularities
	Diploma in Physics, 2000, thesis title: Glass Transition in Colloids with Attractive Interaction.

Selection of recent publications:

David Fischer, Ralf Stannarius, Karsten Tell, Peidong Yu, and Matthias Sperl, Force chains in crystalline and frustrated packings of uniform spheres visualized by stress-birefringence, Soft Matter 17, 4317 (2021).
Peidong Yu, Matthias Schröter, and Matthias Sperl, Velocity Distribution of a Homogeneously Cooling Granular Gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208007(2020).
Juan Petit, Nishant Kumar, Stefan Luding, and Matthias Sperl, Additional transition line in jammed asymmetric bidisperse granular packings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 215501 (2020).
Victoria Engelschion, Sarah Eriksson, Aidan Cowley, Miranda Fateri, Alexandre Meurisse, Ulrich Kueppers, and Matthias Sperl, EAC-1A: A novel large-volume lunar regolith simulant, Nature Scientific Reports 10, 5473 (2020).
Suvendu Mandal, Lukas Schrack, Hartmut Löwen, Matthias Sperl, and Thomas Franosch, Persistent anti-correlations in Brownian dynamics simulations of dense colloidal suspensions revealed by noise canceling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 168001 (2019).
Masato Adachi, Peidong Yu, and Matthias Sperl, Magnetic Excitation of a Granular Gas as a Bulk Thermostat, Nature Microgravity 5, 19 (2019).
W. Till Kranz, Fabian Frahsa, Annette Zippelius, Matthias Fuchs, and Matthias Sperl, Rheology of inelastic hard spheres at finite density and shear rate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 148002 (2018).
Philip Born, Johannes Schmitz, and Matthias Sperl, Dense fluidized granular media in microgravity, Nature Microgravity 3, 27 (2017).
Hideyuki Mizuno, Leonardo E. Silbert, and Matthias Sperl, Spatial Distributions of Local Elastic Moduli Near the Jamming Transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068302 (2016).