Nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) have been known for years and are broadly exploited in modern display technologies, constituting a multibillion business. The key aspect of their applicability is the unique combination of fluidity, anisotropic physical properties and...

Microfluidics is the science and technology that studies the behaviour of fluids in confined geometries. These can be simple, such as straight channels, or they can be of arbitrarily complex shapes, representing a more realistic model of similar systems found in...

Colloidal active matter are systems of hundreds of microscopic particles driven out-of-equilibrium by external fields. They display non-trivial spontaneous collective organisation into static and dynamic patterns that can be controlled by the driving field. This...

Strongly-correlated materials, or the materials, in which Coulomb interaction between the electrons cannot be neglected, became of great importance for technology and basic science. They exhibit a rich variety of exciting properties, such as metal-insulator...

Non-equilibrium states of matter have become of great fundamental and practical interest in recent years because of their wide importance in diverse areas of physics. With the rapid development of new time-resolved techniques, the temporal dynamics of competing...

The young researcher will investigate in the field of quantum materials, more precisely, geometrically frustrated magnetic systems. This is nowadays one of the most thriving fields with many open questions and great potential in emerging quantum technologies. The...

BACKGROUND One of the major challenges in the field of nanotoxicology remains the discovery and understanding of new mechanisms and initial molecular events that can lead to damage or even permanent consequences in cells and tissues as a result of exposure to various...

At the Department of low and medium energy physics (F2) we conduct basic nuclear and atomic physics research and apply the obtained knowledge to variety of practical interdisciplinary research problems, such as: environmental radiation monitoring, material research,...

Driving matter out of equilibrium challenges our understanding and intuition for quantum systems, as well as the imagination to exceed the limitations given by the equilibrium. In our understanding of equilibration of excited quantum systems, exact symmetries play a...