AREA SOFT MATTER

Former SAB Chair 2021-2023, former SAB Member 2017-2023

Stefan was a full professor (Soft Condensed Matter Physics) at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. Interested in the physics of soft condensed matter, in particular its non-equilibrium behaviour. His research focused on the behaviour of colloidal systems under external fields, their relaxation to equilibrium, and metastable states.