Welcome to the Soft Matter Theory group, part of the Physics and Materials Science research unit at the Université du Luxembourg . The head of the group is professor Tanja Schilling . Soft matter theory is about understanding the everyday materials that make up our world: polymers, colloids, pastes and complex fluids such as blood or yoghurt. The behaviour of these materials is often very surprising - think of water freezing to make a solid with a lower density than the liquid, or a swimming pool full
If you are interested in doing your Bachelor/Master/PhD thesis with us, you are welcome to apply! Please send your application to Tanja .
The classic example of a rare event is nucleation, such as the formation of a raindrop from water vapour - this happens every day, but it is rare on the timescale of motion of the water molecules.