Research interests

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Slow dynamics and aging

 

Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of manipulated systems:

Work and entropy flow distributions of small manipulated systems. Fluctuation relations. Exploring equilibrium properties via out-of-equilibrium measurements.

 

Soft condensed matter:

Amphiphilic membranes: order and fluctuations. Membranes with reduced symmetry. Physics of nucleic acids.

 

Evolutionary dynamics:

Statistical models of evolving populations. Origin of biological order.

 

Science and art:

Three-dimensional visualization of Quantum Mechanics in the Allosphere (with JoAnn Kuchera Morin and her group).
See the article on Scientific American.