Self-aligning polar active matter
Gustavo Düring
Associate Professor · Instituto de Física · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
My research concerns the statistical properties of driven, out-of-equilibrium states and the physics of complex disordered systems — in particular the rheological and mechanical behaviour of amorphous materials (elastic networks, granular packings, suspensions, supercooled liquids) and the dynamics of nonlinear wave systems.
More recently the group has been exploring active solids, the yielding transition in soft amorphous materials, and the use of statistical-physics techniques in financial mathematics.
Research
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Active matter & collective phenomena
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Amorphous materials & the yielding transition
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Nonlinear wave systems
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Mechanical metamaterials
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Statistical methods in financial mathematics
Recent work
Bridging the gap between avalanche relaxation and yielding rheology
Model of active solids: rigid body motion and shape-changing mechanisms
Elasticity and rheology of auxetic granular metamaterials