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Prof. Dr. Matthias Sperl
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).
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