Topics: Collective phenomena, motion in complex environment, role of chirality (theory and numerics):
Prof. Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, University of Camerino, Italy.
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Loewen, Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Benno Liebchen, University of Darmstadt, Germany.
Dr. Claudio Maggi, CNR Rome, Italy.
Topics: Linear response theory, stochastic thermodynamics and its applications, entropy production (path integral), thermodynamics uncertainty relations.
Dr. Andrea Puglisi, CNR Rome, Italy.
Prof. Angelo Vulpiani, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Prof. Alessandro Sarracino, University of Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy.
Dr. Fabio Cecconi, CNR Rome, Italy.
Topics: Experiments on (active) granular particles, i.e. rotating and self-propelling vib-robots. Experiments can be performed at Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf and in the CNR lab led by Dr. Andrea Puglisi.
Christian Scholz, Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany.
Dr. Andrea Puglisi, CNR Rome, Italy and Dr. Andrea Gnoli, CNR Rome, Italy.
Collaborations with experimentalists working with sperm in solution:
Prof. Dr. Roberto Di Leonardo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Dr. Claudio Maggi, CNR Rome, Italy; Dr. Andrea Puglisi, CNR Rome, Italy.
Topics: sperm in confinement, collective phenomena.
Collaborations with experimentalists working with active colloidal particles
Prof. Ivo Buttinoni, Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany; Laura Alvarez, Unversity of Bordeaux, France.
Topics: Dynamics of active Janus particles in confinement or in a viscoelastic environment.
Prof. Lucio Isa, ETH Zurich, Swiss.
Topics: reconfigurable molecules consisting of active particles: dynamics and collective effects.