| Dr. Joscha Mecke |  |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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| Institut für Theoretische Physik II - Soft Matter |
| Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| Building 25.32 |
| Room O2.44 |
| Universitätsstraße 1 |
| D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany |
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| phone: +49-211-81-12060 |
| e-mail: joscha.mecke <at> hhu.de |
- Nonequilibrium physics
Energy distribution and transport, entropy production, effective temperatures, nonequilibrium thermospectroscopy
- Chiral active matter
Transversal interactions, nonreciprocity, chiral active turbulence, odd viscosity, odd diffusivity, odd elasticity
- Hydrodynamics
Coarse-grained hydrodynamic description of active fluids, Stokes flows
- Computational physics
Hydrodynamics simulation MPC, Brownian dynamics, molecular dynamics
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| 07/2026--present |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics II, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf |
| 06/2023--06/2026 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China |
| 01/2023 |
Ph.D. in Theoretical physics (summa cum laude), University of Cologne, Germany |
| 10/2019--02/2023 |
Doctoral Researcher at Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany |
| 10/2013--09/2019 |
B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany |
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| 01/2024-12/2024 |
Research Fund for International Young Scientists, National Natural Science Foundation of China, CNY 200,000 |
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Mecke, J., and Kroy, K.
Probing scale-dependent liveliness with nonequilibrium thermospectroscopy.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08116 (2026)
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Mecke, J., Gao, Y., and Ripoll, M.
Obstacle-tuned transition from chaotic to coherent vortex flows and odd diffusion in chiral active fluids.
Phys. Fluids 37 112016 (2025)
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Yu, G., Li, R., Li, F., Zhang, J., Li, X., Chen, Z., Mecke, J., and Gao, Y.
Pressure in active matter.
Chin. Phys. B 34(9) 094702 (2025)
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Mecke, J., Gao, Y., Gompper, G., and Ripoll, M.
Chiral active systems near a substrate: Emergent damping length controlled by fluid friction.
Commun. Phys. 7(1) 332 (2024)
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Mecke, J., Nketsiah, J. O., Li, R., and Gao, Y.
Emergent phenomena in chiral active matter.
Natl. Sci. Open 3(4) 20230086 (2024)
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Mecke, J., Gao, Y., RamÃrez Medina, C. A., Aarts, D. G., Gompper, G., and Ripoll, M.
Simultaneous emergence of active turbulence and odd viscosity in a colloidal chiral active system.
Commun. Phys. 6(1) 324 (2023)
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Mecke, J. and Ripoll, M.
Birotor hydrodynamic microswimmers: From single to collective behaviour.
EPL 142(2) 27001 (2023)
For a full up-to-date publication list see my Google scholar profile
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