Marco Mazza, Ph.D.


  • 2001 M.Sc. Physics, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
  • 2002 Research Assistent, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
  • 2009 Ph.D, Physics, Boston University, Boston, USA
  • 2009–2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • 2012 – 2018 Group Leader, Dynamics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
  • since 2018 Assist. Prof., Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom



Major Research Interests


  • Nonequilibrium physics
  • Statistical mechanics of active swimmers
  • Nonequilibrium phase transitions in granular matter
  • Liquid crystals in equilibrium and nonequilibrium conditions
  • Dynamics of topological defects
  • Liquid water

  • Homepage Department/Research Group
    http://www.dcf.ds.mpg.de/index.php?id=894


    Selected Recent Publications


    • Breier RE, Lalescu CC, Waas D, Wilczek M, Mazza MG (2018) Emergence of phytoplankton patchiness at small scales in mild turbulence, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115, 12112

    • Ostapenko T, Schwarzendahl FJ, Böddeker TJ, Kreis CT, Cammann J, Mazza MG, Bäumchen O (2018) Curvature-Guided Motility of Microalgae in Geometric Confinement, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 068002

    • Sentker, Zantop AW, Lippmann M, Hofmann T, Seeck OH, Kityk AV, Yildirim A, Schönhals A, Mazza MG, Huber P (2018) Quantized Self-Assembly of Discotic Rings in a Liquid Crystal Confined in Nanopores, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067801

    • Stieger, Agha H, Schoen M, Mazza MG, Sengupta A (2017) Hydrodynamic cavitation in Stokes flow of anisotropic fluids, Nature Commun. 8, 15550

    • Mazza MG (2016) The physics of biofilms - an introduction, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49, 203001