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Dr. Stefan Hutzler

Associate Professor (Physics)
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Dr. Stefan Hutzler

Associate Professor (Physics)
SNIAM

 Stefan.Hutzler@tcd.ie

 3531896 1676


Project Title
 Avalanches and 1/f noise
From
2000
To
2003
Summary
Coordinator
Funding Agency
Enterprise Ireland Basic Research Grant
Project Title
 Hydrodynamics of wet foams
From
2004
To
2007
Summary
(member of team)
Funding Agency
ESA/ESTEC (European Space Agency)
Project Title
 Application of statistical physics to risk analysis in finance and sociology
From
2004
To
2006
Summary
Funding Agency
SFI
Programme
Basic Research Grant
Project Title
 Development of advanced foams in microgravity
From
2003
To
2006
Summary
(member of team)
Funding Agency
ESA/ESTEC (Euroepan Space Agency)
Project Title
 Research into foams and emulsions in fluidic networks
From
2002
To
2006
Summary
(member of team)
Funding Agency
Enterprise Ireland Basic Research Grant

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Chartered Physicist, Member of the Institute of Physics 1995 PRESENT
Chan HK, Hutzler S, Mughal A, O'Hern CS, Wang, Y and Weaire D (editors), Packing Problems in Soft Matter Physics: Fundamentals and Applications, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2025, 1 - 578pp, Book, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
A Brief Overview of Packing Problems in, editor(s)HK Chan, S Hutzler, A Mughal, CS O'Hern, Y Wang and D Weaire , Packing Problems in Soft Matter Physics: Fundamentals and Applications, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2025, pp1 - 12, [D Weaire, A Mughal and S Hutzler], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ryan-Purcell, A Irannezhad, M Whelan, D Weaire, A Mughal and S Hutzler, Compression of a line of hard spheres or bubbles in a transverse confining potential, Philosophical Magazine, 105, 2025, p684 - 697, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Jing, Z, Chen F, Ryan-Purcell J and Hutzler S, Equilibrium shape of a bubble in a liquid-filled horizontal capillary, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 172, 2024, p104729-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
de Lima, PDS, Lyons, A, Irannezhad, A, de Araujo, JM, Hutzler, S and Ferreira, MS, Self-assembled clusters of magnetically tilted dipoles, Physical Review E, 110, (6), 2024, p064134-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
A Mughal, S Hutzler and D Weaire, Equilibrium states of confined ions in two dimensions, Philosophicl Magazine, 103, 2023, p595 - 609, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Mughal A, Hutzler S and Weaire D, Coulomb Calligraphy, Forma, 38, 2023, p1 - 5, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
A. Mughal, J. Winkelmann, D. Weaire and S. Hutzler, Stability maps for columnar structures, Philosophical Magazine, 103, (14), 2023, p1328 - 1344, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
S. Hutzler, J. Ryan-Purcell, A. Mughal and D. Weaire, A continuum description of the buckling of a line of spheres in a transverse harmonic confining potential, Royal Society Open Science, 10, (7), 2023, p230293-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Irannezhad A, Baragry A, Weaire D, Mughal A and Hutzler S, Packing soft spheres: experimental demonstrations with hydrogels, European Journal of Physics, 44, 2023, p065501-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
  

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Packing Problems in Foams in, editor(s)HK Chan, S Hutzler, A Mughal, CS O'Hern, Y Wang and D Weaire , Packing Problems in Soft Matter Physics: Fundamentals and Applications, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2025, pp241 - 264, [S Hutzler and D Weaire], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
S Hutzler, F Elias, M Moebius, S Tcholakova, Foreword, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 534, 2017, p1 - 1, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Bergin SD, Weaire D and Hutzler S, The Drop heard round the World, Physics World, May 2014, 2014, p26 - 29, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Hutzler S, Fractal Ireland, Science Spin, 58, (May/June), 2013, p19-20 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Hutzler S., Preface (for Proceedings of International Workshop on Packing Problems), Philosophical Magazine, 93, 2013, p3939 - 3939, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
S. Hutzler, Foams -- Think bubbles, Chemistry&Industry, December 2013, 2013, p49 - 49, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
F Newell, R Murtagh, S Hutzler, A role for Gestalt principles of organisation in shaping preferences for non-natural spatial and dynamic patterns, Perception, European Conference on Visual Perception, Bremen, Germany, 25-29 August 2013, 42 , (ECVP Abstract Suppl.), 2013, pp113 - 113, Meeting Abstract, PUBLISHED
Weaire D, Hutzler S and Langlois VJ, Foam rheology in two dimensions, The XVth International Congress on Rheology, Monterrey, USA, American Institute of Physics, 2008, pp833 - 835, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Banhart J, Garcia-Moreno F, Hutzler S, Langevin D, Liggieri L, Miller R, Saint-Jalmes A and Weaire D, Foams and emulsions in space, Europhysics News, 39, 2008, p26 - 28, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Saadatfar M, Hutzler S and Weaire D, Foams, Trinity College Dublin: interconnect, Scientific Computing and Visualisation Newsletter, (2), 2008, p8 - 9, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  


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AREA OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY: Physics. Computational and Statistical Physics, in particular physics of foams and granular materials, sociophysics. DOMAIN OF SPECIALIZATION: My research is in the area of soft condensed matter, granular matter, and econo- and sociophysics. In collaboration with Professor Denis Weaire, I have contributed to a better understanding of liquid foams, which constitute a model system of soft matter, through both experiments and simulations (e.g. discovery and monitoring of a solitary wave in foam drainage, avalanches of bubble rearrangements in foams under shear and convective bubble motion in foams under forced drainage). The book "The Physics of Foams" co-written together with D. Weaire (OUP 1999, paperback 2001) and featuring a large amount of original work, has received excellent reviews in the scientific press and has turned into a standard reference in research papers on the physics of foams. Present research interests A further theme of my research are analogies of foams and granular matter concerning packing problems and dilatancy (expansion of a packing of grains under shear). My contribution to econophysics concerns a study of wealth distributions in societies. An agent based model reproduces the long power law tails (Pareto tails) that are typical for such distributions.