Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gompper

1977-1982 Study of Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Diploma in Physics

1983-1986 PhD study at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich

1987-1989 Post-doctoral at University of Washington, Seattle, USA

1989-1994 Research Assistant at Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich

1994-1999 Scientist at Max-Planck-Institute for Colloid and Interface Science, Berlin

since 1999 Director at the IFF, FZ Jülich

and since 2000 Full Professor at the University of Cologne

J. Liam McWhirter, Hiroshi Noguchi, and Gerhard Gompper.
Flow-induced clustering and alignment of red blood cells in microchannels.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811484106
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 106:6039--6043, 2009.

G. Gompper, T. Ihle, D. M. Kroll, and R. G. Winkler.
Multi-particle collision dynamics -- a particle-based mesoscale simulation approach to the hydrodynamics of complex fluids.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87706-6_1
Adv. Polym. Sci., 221:1--87, 2009.

M. Ripoll, P. Holmqvist, R. G. Winkler, G. Gompper, J. K. G. Dhont, and M. P. Lettinga
Attractive colloidal rods in shear flow
Phys. Rev. Lett., 101:168302 [1-4], 2008

M. Ripoll, R. G. Winkler, and G. Gompper
Star polymers in shear flow
Phys. Rev. Lett., 96:188302 [1-4], 2006

G. Vliegenthart and G. Gompper
Forced crumpling of self-avoiding elastic sheets
Nature Materials, 5:216-221, 2006

H. Noguchi and G. Gompper
Shape transitions of fluid vesicles and red blood cells in capillary flows
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102:14159-14164, 2005

M. Ripoll, K. Mussawisade, R.G. Winkler, G. Gompper
Low-Reynolds-number hydrodynamics of complex fluids by multi-particle-collision dynamics
Europhys. Lett. 68 (2004) 106-112

H. Noguchi and G. Gompper
Fluid Vesicles with Viscous Membranes in Shear Flow
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 258102

G. Gompper and D.M. Kroll
Triangulated-Surface Models of Fluctuating Membranes
in "Statistical Mechanics of Membranes and Surfaces" (2nd Edition), edited by D.R. Nelson, T. Piran and S. Weinberg (World Scientific, Singapore, 2004)

H.-G. Döbereiner, G. Gompper, C.K. Haluska, D.M. Kroll, P.G. Petrov, K.A. Riske
Advanced Flicker Spectroscopy of Fluid Membranes
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 048301 (2003)

U.S. Schwarz and G.Gompper
Bicontinuous Surfaces in Self-Assembling Amphiphilic Systems
in "Spatial Statistics and Statistical Physics", edited by K.R. Mecke and D. Stoyan, Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 600, p. 107-151 (Springer Berlin, 2002)

P. B. S. Kumar, G. Gompper, and R. Lipowsky.
Budding dynamics of multicomponent membranes.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3911
Phys. Rev. Lett., 86:3911--3914, 2001.

H. Endo, J. Allgaier, G. Gompper, B. Jakobs, M. Monkenbusch, D. Richter, T. Sottmann, Strey, R.
Membrane decoration by amphiphilic block copolymers in bicontinuous microemulsions
Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 102 - 105 (2000)

R. Goetz, G. Gompper, and R. Lipowsky
Mobility and elasticity of self-assembled membranes
Phys. Rev. Lett., 82:221-224, 1999

G. Gompper and D. M. Kroll
Membranes with fluctuating topology: Monte carlo simulations
Phys. Rev. Lett., 81:2284-2287, 1998

G. Gompper and D. M. Kroll
Network models of fluid, hexatic and polymerized membranes
J. Phys. Condens. Matter, 9:8795-8834, 1997

G. Gompper and M. Schick
Self-assembling amphiphilic systems
In C. Domb and J. Lebowitz, editors, Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, volume 16, pages 1-176, London, 1994. Academic Press

D. M. Kroll and G. Gompper
The conformation of fluid membranes
Science, 255:968-971, 1992

G. Gompper and M. Schick
Correlation between structural and interfacial properties of amphiphilic systems
Phys. Rev. Lett., 65:1116-1119, 1990

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