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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

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, 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
M Musacchio, AP Antonov, H Löwen, L Caprini, Flocking as a second-order phase transition in self-aligning active crystals - arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12967 (2025) Link

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