Projects
Nonequilibrium aspects of physical cosmology KU Leuven
About 100-150 years ago, pioneers of statistical mechanics understood how to correct thermodynamics. Today, static and dynamic fluctuations can be observed in much greater detail thanks to sensational technological advances in probing and sensing. True in chemistry and for biophysics, it also matters for physical cosmology. Cosmology has become a precision science with detailed measurements of fluctuations in temperature and mass/energy ...
Large deviations in non-equilibrium processes Hasselt University
Sabbatical Christian Maes: Theoretical Physics of Life KU Leuven
Its main objectives are to develop fundamental questions and applications of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to the physics of Life, and to write a
accessible introduction to that non-equilibrium physics. Biological functions can be connected to non-equilibrium physics on several levels. By visiting international centers
and the exchanges it will be able to put the right accents in the research during the sabbatical period.