Hartmut Löwen

Hartmut Löwen (born May 23, 1963 in Hamm ) is a German physicist who deals with statistical mechanics and soft matter .

Life

Löwen studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the University of Dortmund from 1982 , where he graduated in physics in 1986 and received his doctorate in 1987 on phase transitions in polaron systems under Bernd Gerlach (together with Gerlach he partially demonstrated the non-existence of phase transitions for many phonon systems and specifically Polaron systems, contrary to what was previously generally expected). He then worked as a post-doc at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1993 with Herbert Wagner . In 1990/91 he was at the École normal supérieure with Jean-Pierre Hansen. Since 1995 he has been a professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . Among other things, he was visiting professor at Cambridge University and La Sapienza University in Rome .

Hartmut Löwen's fields of activity are statistical physics of colloidal suspensions , polymer physics , physics of biological macromolecules such as proteins and DNA , glass transition , melting processes and crystal growth , liquid crystals , density functional theory , polaron systems.

In 1994 he was a Heisenberg fellow and received the Gerhard Hess Prize from the DFG. In 2003 he received the Gentner-Kastler-Prize and in 2010 an ERC Advanced Grant together with Gregor Morfill (Garching) .

Fonts

• Colloids - also interesting for physicists? In: Physical sheets . 1995, p. 165
• What's hard about soft matter? In: Physics Journal . 2003, issue 7/8 (speech on the Gentner-Kastler-Prize)
• Computer simulation of colloidal dispersions. (= Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 704). Springer Verlag, 2006, pp. 139–161.
• Soft matter - from the ugly duckling to the beautiful swan. (PDF file 1.05 MB)

Web links

• Website at the University of Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ B. Gerlach, H. Löwen: Proof of the nonexistence of formal phase transitions in polaron systems, exposed to a homogeneous magnetic field. In: Physica Scripta. Vol. 37, 1988, p. 925.
2. ↑ B. Gerlach, H. Löwen: Proof of the nonexistence of (formal) phase transitions in polaron systems. Part 1,2, In: Physical Review. B, Vol. 35, 1987, pp. 4291, 4297.
3. ↑ with B. Gerlach: Analytical properties of polaron systems or: do polaronic phase transitions exist or not? In: Reviews Modern Physics. Vol. 63, 1991, pp. 63-90.
4. ↑ ERC Advanced Grant ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.