Demian Levis
Lecturer Professor
Knowledge area: Física de la Matèria Condensada
Research group:
FÍSICA ESTADÍSTICA
Teaching imparted
Mètodes Matemàtics per a la Física I
(Bachelor's degree) -
Física -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Física I
(Bachelor's degree) -
Química -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Càlcul de Diverses Variables
(Bachelor's degree) -
Física -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Biofísica
(Bachelor's degree) -
Ciències Biomèdiques -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Mecànica
(Bachelor's degree) -
Física -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Física Estadística de Sistemes Complexos i Biològics
(University Master's Degree) -
Física dels Sistemes Complexos i Biofísica -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Fenòmens Col·lectius i Transicions de Fase
(Bachelor's degree) -
Física -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Física Estadística de No-Equilibri
(University Master's Degree) -
Física dels Sistemes Complexos i Biofísica -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Fonaments de Mecànica, Ones, Fluids i Termodinàmica
(Bachelor's degree) -
Ingeniería Biomédica(1) -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Multiescala, Mètodes Coarse-Grained i Mètodes Mixtes
(University Master's Degree) -
Modelització Computacional Atomística i Multiescala en Física, Química i Bioquímica -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Biofísica
(Bachelor's degree) -
Ciencias Biomédicas -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Física 1
(Bachelor's degree) -
Química -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Física Estadística de Sistemes Complexos i Biològics
(University Master's Degree) -
Màster en Física dels Sistemes Complexos i Biofísica -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Física Estadística de No-Equilibri
(University Master's Degree) -
Màster en Física dels Sistemes Complexos i Biofísica -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Fenòmens Col·lectius i Transicions de Fase
(Bachelor's degree) -
Física -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Stays abroad in Research Centers
Universitat de Barcelona.
Barcelona.
SPAIN.
2014
(10 Months)
. Synchronization of mobile oscillators
. Contracted
German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Koeln.
GERMANY.
2015
(6 Months)
. Dynamic response of active materials
. Postdoctoral
Universitat de Barcelona.
Barcelona.
SPAIN.
2015
(2 Years 1 Months)
. COLPHAM: Collective Phenomena in Dense Active Matter
. Postdoctoral
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Lausanne.
SWITZERLAND.
2017
(2 Years 1 Months)
. Emergent non-equilibrium phenomena in systems of interacting agents
. Postdoctoral
Academic training
Licenciatura en Física
. Université de Paris XI
. 03/04/2008
. (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Grau en Física
. Imperial College
. 05/11/2008
. (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Doctor en Física Teórica
. Université de Pierre et Marie Curie (Sorbonne Université)
. 26/10/2012
. (Ph.D.)
Màster en Física de la Matèria Condensada
. Université de Paris XI
. 06/11/2009
. (Official Master)
Projects
Collective Phenomena in dense Active Matter: phase transitions and non-equilibrium dynamics (COLPHAM)
(HORIZON 2020. PILLAR 1-EXCELLENT SCIENCE. MCA. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions.)
.
2015 - 2017
. Ref.657517
. Unió Europea
. PI: Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora; Demian Francisco Levis Sotomayor
. (2 Researchers)
Conversión de energía a escalas pequeñas: explotando el carácter de no equilibrio de la materia activa
(Programa Nacional de Física )
.
2019 - 2022
. Ref.RTI2018-099032-J-I00
. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
. PI: Demian Francisco Levis Sotomayor
. (1 Researchers)
- Física estadística
- Materia condensada blanda
- Materia activa
- Transporte
- autoensamblaje
Procesos de no equilibrio y transformaciones energéticas en pequeñas escalas: sistemas autoensamblados, confinados y activos
(Física (FIS))
.
2016 - 2018
. Ref.FIS2015-67837-P
. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
. PI: Jose Miguel Rubi Capaceti; Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora
. (4 Researchers)
- Nucleación
- Biofísica
- Materia activa
- Materia condensada blanda
- Física estadística de no equilibrio
Física Estadística
(Ajuts de Suport als Grups de Recerca de Catalunya (SGR))
.
2017 - 2021
. Ref.2017SGR884
. Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR)
. PI: Jose Miguel Rubi Capaceti
. (14 Researchers)
- Fluctuacions i processos estocástics
- Biofísica
- Hidrodinámica
- transport a la nanoescala
- Fractura
- Transicions de fase
- Termodinàmica i física estadística fora de l'equilibri
- Líquids complexos
BIO Network for Training (BIONT)
(Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL))
.
2023 - 2026
. Ref.101100604
. Unió Europea
. PI: Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora
. (4 Researchers)
FÍSICA ESTADÍSTICA
(Ajuts de Suport als Grups de Recerca de Catalunya (SGR))
.
2022 - 2025
. Ref.2021 SGR 00673
. Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR)
. PI: Maria del Carmen Miguel Lopez
- transport a la nanoescala
- Termodinàmica i física estadística fora de l'equilibri
- Biofísica
- Líquids complexos
- Fluctuacions i processos estocástics
- Hidrodinámica
- Fractura
- Transicions de fase
Física estadística fuera del equilibrio de sistemas densos de partículas activas y quirales
(Programa Nacional de Física )
.
2023 - 2026
. Ref.PID2022-140407NB-C22
. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
. PI: Demian Francisco Levis Sotomayor
- Quiralidad
- Defectos topológicos
- Materia blanda
- Sistemas desordenados
- Partículas activas
Journal Publications
D. Levis; L. F. Cugliandolo.
Out-of-equilibrium dynamics in the bidimensional spin-ice model.
In
EPL.
Volume 97.
Number 3.
2012
. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/97/30002
Laura Foini; Demian Levis; Marco Tarzia; Leticia F. Cugliandolo.
Static properties of 2D spin-ice as a sixteen-vertex model.
In
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
2013
. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2013/02/P02026
Demian Levis; Leticia F. Cugliandolo; Laura Foini; Marco Tarzia.
Thermal Phase Transitions in Artificial Spin Ice.
In
Physical Review Letters.
Volume 110.
2013
. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.207206
Demian Levis; Leticia F. Cugliandolo.
Defects dynamics following thermal quenches in square spin ice.
In
Physical Review B.
Volume 87.
2013
. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.214302
Demian Levis; Ludovic Berthier.
Clustering and heterogeneous dynamics in a kinetic Monte Carlo model of self-propelled hard disks.
In
Physical Review E.
Volume 89.
2014
. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.062301
Félix Ginot; Isaac Theurkauff; Demian Levis; Christophe Ybert; Lydéric Bocquet; Ludovic Berthier; Cécile Cottin-Bizonne.
Nonequilibrium Equation of State in Suspensions of Active Colloids.
In
Physical Review X.
Volume 5.
2015
. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011004
Demian Levis; Ludovic Berthier.
From single-particle to collective effective temperatures in an active fluid of self-propelled particles.
In
EPL.
Volume 111.
Number 6.
2015
. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/111/60006
Levis, D.; Pagonabarraga, I.; Diaz-Guilera, A.
Synchronization in dynamical networks of locally coupled self-propelled oscillators.
In
Physical Review X.
Volume 7.
2017
. Institutional Repository
Liebchen, Benno; Levis, Demian.
Collective Behavior of Chiral Active Matter: Pattern Formation and Enhanced Flocking.
In
Physical Review Letters.
Volume 119.
Number 5.
2017
. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.058002
Levis, Demian; Codina, Joan; Pagonabarragaa, Ignacio.
Active Brownian equation of state: metastability and phase coexistence.
In
Soft Matter.
Volume 13.
Number 44.
2017
. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7sm01504f
Levis, Demian; Liebchen, Benno.
Micro-flock patterns and macro-clusters in chiral active Brownian disks.
In
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
Volume 30.
Number 8.
2018
. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/aaa5ec
P. Digregorio, P.; Levis, D.; Suma, A.; Cugliandolo, L.F.; Gonnella, G.; Pagonabarraga, I.
Full phase diagram of active Brownian disks: From melting to motility-induced phase separation.
In
Physical Review Letters.
Volume 121.
2018
. Institutional Repository
Martin-Gomez, Aitor; Levis, Demian; Diaz-Guilera, Albert; Pagonabarraga, Ignacio.
Collective motion of active Brownian particles with polar alignment.
In
Soft Matter.
Volume 14.
Number 14.
2018
. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sm00020d
Sese-Sansa, E.; Pagonabarraga, I.; Levis, D.
Velocity alignment promotes motility-induced phase separation.
In
EPL.
Volume 124.
2018
. Institutional Repository
Massana-Cid, H.; Navarro-Argemí E.; Levis, D.; Pagonabarraga, I.; Tierno, P.
Leap-frog transport of magnetically driven anisotropic colloidal rotors.
In
Journal of Chemical Physics.
Volume 150.
2019
. Institutional Repository
Digregorio, P.; Levis, D.; Suma, A.;Cugliandolo, L.F. ; Gonnella, G.; Pagonabarraga, I.
2D melting and motility induced phase separation in active Brownian hard disks and dumbbells.
In
Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
Volume 1163.
2019
. Institutional Repository
dal Cengio S.; Levis, D.; Pagonabarraga, I.
Linear response theory and Green-Kubo relations for active matter.
In
Physical Review Letters.
Volume 123.
Number 23.
2019
. Institutional Repository
Liebchen, B.; Levis, D.; Pagonabarraga, I.
Activity induced synchronization: Mutual flocking and chiral self-sorting.
In
Physical Review Research.
Volume 1.
2019
. Institutional Repository
Levis, Demian; Liebchen, Benno.
Simultaneous phase separation and pattern formation in chiral active mixtures.
In
Physical Review e.
Volume 100.
Number 1.
2019
. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.012406
Levis, D.; Diaz-Guilera, A; Pagonabarraga, I.; Starnini M.
Flocking-Enhanced social contagion.
In
Physical Review Research.
Volume 2.
Number 3.
2020
. Institutional Repository
Claudio B. Caporusso; Pasquale Digregorio; Demian Levis; Leticia F. Cugliandolo; Giuseppe Gonnella.
Motility-Induced Microphase and Macrophase Separation in a Two-Dimensional Active Brownian Particle System.
In
Physical Review Letters.
Volume 125.
2020
. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.178004
Dal Cengio, S.; Levis, D.; Pagonabarraga , I.
Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations in the absence of Detailed Balance: formalism and applications to Active Matter.
In
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
Volume 4.
2021
. Institutional Repository
Sese-Sansa, E.; Levis, D.; Pagonabarraga, I.
Phase separation of self-propelled disks with ferromagnetic and nematic alignment.
In
Physical Review e.
Volume 104.
2021
. Institutional Repository
Caporusso, C.; Digregorio, P.; Levis, D.; Suma, A.; Cugliandolo, L.; Gonnella, G.
Clustering dynamics in systems of Active Brownian Disks and Dumbbells.
In
European Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Volume 51.
2021
Massana-Cid, H.; Levis, D.; Hernandez Hernandez, R.J.; Pagonabarraga, I.; Tierno, P.
Arrested phase separation in chiral fluids of colloidal spinners.
In
Physical Review Research.
Volume 3.
Number 4.
2021
. Institutional Repository
Rouzaire Y.; Levis, D.
Defect Superdiffusion and Unbinding in a 2D XY Model of Self-Driven Rotors.
In
Physical Review Letters.
Volume 127.
Number 8.
2021
. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.088004
Digregorio, P.; Levis, D.; Cugliandolo, L.F. ; Gonnella, G.; Pagonabarraga, I.
Unified analysis of topological defects in 2D systems of active and passive disks.
In
Soft Matter.
Volume 18.
2021
. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/sm/d1sm01411k/unauth
Caporusso, C.; Suma, A.; Levis, D.; Digregorio, P.; Cugliandolo, L.; Gonnella, G.
Dynamical properties of clusters of active particles.
In
European Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Volume 52.
2022
Paoluzzi, M.; Levis, D.; Pagonabarraga, I.
From motility-induced phase-separation to glassiness in dense active matter.
In
Communications Physics.
Volume 5.
2022
Ylann Rouzaire and Demian Levis.
Dynamics of topological defects in the noisy Kuramoto model in two dimensions.
In
Frontiers In Physics.
Volume 10.
2022
. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2022.976515
Benno Liebchen; Demian Levis.
Chiral Active Matter.
In
EPL.
Volume 139.
2022
. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ac8f69
Sese-Sansa, E.; Liao, G.-J.; Levis, D.; Pagonabarraga, I.; Klapp, S.
Impact of dipole-dipole interactions on motility-induced phase separation.
In
Soft Matter.
Volume 18.
2022
. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00385F
Jorge P. Rodriguez; Matteo Paoluzzi; Demian Levis; Michele Starnini.
Epidemic processes on self-propelled particles: continuum and agent-based modelling.
In
Physical Review Research.
2022
. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.043160
Sesé-Sansa, Elena; Levis, Demian; Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio.
Microscopic field theory for structure formation in systems of self-propelled particles with generic torques.
In
Journal of Chemical Physics.
Volume 157.
2022
. Institutional Repository
Wiese, R.; Kroy, K.; Levis, D.
Fluid-Glass-Jamming Rheology of Soft Active Brownian Particles.
In
Physical Review Letters.
Volume 131.
Number 17.
2023
Rüdiger Kürsten; Demian Levis.
Emergent States in Systems of Chiral Self-Propelled Rods.
In
Europhysics Letters (EPL).
Volume 143.
2023
. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/acdff6
Claudio B. Caporusso; Leticia F. Cugliandolo; Pasquale Digregorio; Giuseppe Gonnella; Demian Levis; Antonio Suma.
Dynamics of Motility-Induced clusters: coarsening beyond Ostwald ripening.
In
Physical Review Letters.
Volume 131.
2023
. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.068201
Paoluzzi, M.; Levis, D.; Pagonabarraga, I.
From flocking to glassiness in Dense Disordered Polar Active Matter.
In
Communications Physics.
Volume 7.
2024
. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01551-7
Thesis, minor thesis and research reports
Sese Sansa Elena
. (2016)
. Adosrption of active matter
(Degree work)
. Barcelona.
Sese Sansa, E
. (2017)
. Phase diagram of a system of synchronizing active particles
(Master's Thesis)
. Universitat de Barcelona.
Roland Wiese
. (2020)
. Simulations of sheared active Brownian particles
(Master's Thesis)
. University of Leipzig.
Jaume Garcia Théâtre
. (2021)
. Self-organization of chiral active particles
(Master's Thesis)
. Universitat de Barcelona.
Aitor Martín Gomez
. (2017)
. Synchronization and emerging patterns in suspensions of self-propelled oscillators
(Master's Thesis)
. Universitat de Barcelona.
Elena Sesé Sansa
. (2022)
. Collective behavior and emerging patterns in dense dry aligning active matter
(Ph.D. Thesis)
. EPFL.
Ylann Rouzaire
. (2021)
. Defects Superdiffusion and Unbinding in a 2D XY Model of Self-Driven Rotors
(Master's Thesis)
. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Lior Tetro
. (2022)
. Motility-Induced Phase Separation of harmonic Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles ful- filling Detailed Balance
(Master's Thesis)
. Universitat de Barcelona.
http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/189240
Adriá Garcés
. (2023)
. Statistical mechanics of non-reciprocally interacting Ising spins
(Master's Thesis)
. Universitat de Barcelona.
David Mazzanti
. (2023)
. Non-reciprocal interactions in the XY model
(Master's Thesis)
. Universitat de Barcelona.
https://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/206676
