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About Kai

Associate professor of physics @ Duke-Kunshan University (Zweitmitglied @ Uni Bayreuth) ---------------------------------------------- Research interest: Understanding, predicting and eventually controlling the collective behavior of sand grains (i.e., granular materials) by means of lab experiments and computer simulations, in order to shed light on widespread applications such as space exploration, process engineering, powder based additive manufacturing (3D printing), landslide, earthquake triggering, dune migration and transport, etc. Acoustical design of opera theatres (e.g. the Bayreuth Festspielhaus of Richard Wagner) in combination with the design of traditional Chinese opera houses. ---------------------------------------------- Pedagogy: 'The best way to learn is to teach.' ---------------------------------------------- Habilitation in Physics @ Uni. Bayreuth Postdoc in Complex Fluids @ Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organization; PhD in Physical Acoustics @ Nanjing University; B.S. in E&E @ Nanjing University;

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Welcome to my webpage, here you will find our steps toward understanding the collective behavior of sand grains…

Beyond that, thinking about any object as ‘a grain of sand’, how to build the bridge between ‘microscopic’ interactions to ‘macroscopic’ collective behavior is way beyond the physics behind sand. It can be related to:

  1. Traffic and logistic control
  2. Decision making, from personal to social ones
  3. Planet formation: How our solar system form from homogeneous gas?
  4. Active matter: from molecular motors to the migration of birds
  5. Your ideas.