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My expertise is in Statistical Physics.

I perform theoretical and experimental studies on macroscopic nonequilibrium systems with the aim to uncover scaling laws and universal aspects from them.

I have been working on the subjects of surface growth, phase ordering, and percolation.

The studies are related to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) scaling theory, coarsening in kinetic Ising models, and more recently with Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) in 2D systems.

Surface of a polycrystalline (CdTe) film produced by thermal evaporation in high vacuum. The topography was obtained by atomic force microscopy. Height fluctuations obey the KPZ scaling laws and distributions.

Domain morphology of a 2D twisted nematic liquid crystal after a quench from a disordered state to a state with two competing phases: right-hand twists (green) and left-hand twists (violet). The largest cluster (orange) has the same geometry of critical clusters in the percolation universality class.

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