Professor of Physics · Universitat de Barcelona

Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Theoretical and computational research on soft matter out of equilibrium — collective phenomena in active matter, electrokinetics, and the mesoscale algorithms that simulate them.

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In motion

Geometry, dynamics, and thermal noise refuse to separate.

“The interesting physics sits in how a swarm becomes a flow, how a droplet finds its scale, and how an algorithm knows its limits.”

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Three decades on the theory of soft matter out of equilibrium.

From the University of Barcelona to AMOLF, Edinburgh and CECAM in Lausanne — and back. Member of UBICS, former Director of CECAM (2017–2022).

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