This thesis investigates the interplay between thermodynamics and kinetics in multi-component mixtures. The complex free energy landscape of these systems usually leads to phase separation in equilibrium. However, crowding ...

Our current knowledge on collective cell phenomena such as wound healing, cancer invasion and embryogenesis heavily relies on biochemistry. However, new advances in the field of cell dynamics have shown how mechanosensing plays ...

Active matter represents a unique class of out-of-equilibrium systems, that are ubiquitous in our everyday life. Active particles convert energy into mechanical motion and this leads to collective self-organization into ...

The ongoing downscaling of electronic devices requires innovative approaches to probe and manipulate electronic behavior at the nanoscale. Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer a remarkable opportunity to directly explore ...

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has produced a uniquely large set of proton-proton collision data at never-before-seen energies since the beginning of its operation in 2010. Using data collected by the ATLAS detector ...

Structural phase transformations promise tailored functionality in future technological devices that complement already established applications. In leveraging the associated changes of macroscopic properties, reversible, ...

The Sun has long been utilized as an observatory for gaining a better understanding of high-energy plasma physics. With the advent of the space age and the continual improvement of Sun-observing instruments, physicists ...

The engineering of metastable microstructures has opened new avenues in advanced materials development. In Fe-C-based alloys, the drastic reduction in carbon solubility during the fcc-to-bcc transformation, in combination ...

Feebly Interacting Massive Particles are elusive Dark Matter candidates produced via the freeze-in mechanism. They are a type of Dark Matter that never reaches thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model. This fact leads ...

Our behavior and cognition is flexible and dynamic. With ease, we can switch between different thoughts, memories, and movements. We are able to dynamically adapt individual behaviors, like the speed and path our arm takes ...