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Chair Löwen
| Marco Musacchio, M.Sc. |  |
| Ph.D. Student | |
| Institut für Theoretische Physik II - Soft Matter | |
| Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf | |
| Building 25.32 | |
| Room O2.41 | |
| Universitätsstraße 1 | |
| D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| phone: +49-211-81-12055 | |
| e-mail: musacchio <at> thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de | |
Research
- Active Matter
- Non-Equilibrium Physics
- Biophysics
Curriculum Vitae
| 2024-present | Ph.D. Student at the Institute for Theoretical Physics II, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf |
| 2022-2024 | Master Degree in Biophysics (110/110 cum laude) at La Sapienza, Univerisity of Rome | 2019-2022 | Bachelor Degree in Physics (110/110) at La Sapienza, Univerisity of Rome |
Awards
| 2025 | EBAN Scholarship for academic excellence during my Master’s degree |
| 2022-2024 | Excellence Program at La Sapienza, University of Rome |
| 2022 | EBAN Scholarship for academic excellence during my Bachelor’s degree |
| 2019 | EBAN Scholarship for the results obtained during High School | 2019 | Exemption from first-year university tuition fees for the results achieved in the high school diploma | 2014 | Winner of the national 'Gioia Mathesis' Mathematical Olympiad (national competition) |
Publications
- M Musacchio, D Breoni, I Abdoli, L Tubiana, H Löwen, L Caprini Active embracement enables autonomous tweezing in active star polymers - arXiv:2608.29728, (2026) Link
- AP Antonov, M Musacchio, H Löwen, L Caprini Jerky Motion of Active Granular Particles - arXiv:2608.24689, (2026) Link
- F Guzmán-Lastra, M Rosenberg, M Musacchio, L Caprini, H Löwen Magnetic active matter across scales - arXiv:2608.11875, (2026) Link
- L Caprini, M Musacchio, UMB Marconi, B Liebchen, H Löwen Active thermodynamics of inertial chiral active gases: Equation of state and edge currents - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 (29) e2532158123, (2026) Link
- M Musacchio, AP Antonov, H Löwen, L Caprini, Flocking as a continuous phase transition in self-aligning active crystals - The Journal of Chemical Physics 164 ,194903 (2026) Link
- M Musacchio, M Felber, M Paoluzzi, A Gnoli, A Puglisi, L Angelani, Fluidization induced by Magnetic Interactions in Confined Active Matter - Physical Review E 113 ,055413 (2026) Link
- M Musacchio, AP Antonov, H Löwen, L Caprini, Circling crystals in chiral active matter with self-alignment - Soft Matter, (2026) Link
- AP Antonov, L Caprini, M Musacchio, H Löwen Roboter als Modellsysteme für aktive Materie: Abkühlungsphänomene durch Haftreibung - Physik in unserer Zeit, (2026) Link
- M Musacchio, AP Antonov, H Löwen, L Caprini, Self-alignment and anti-self-alignment suppress motility-induced phase separation in active systems - The Journal of Chemical Physics 162 ,24 (2025) Link
- AP Antonov, M Musacchio, H Löwen, L Caprini, Self-sustained frictional cooling in active matter - Nature Communications, 16 ,1 (2025) Link
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