The Group
The working group is a structure of cooperating scientists in which lectures and joint research activities are organized. The working group is established across different research institutions. It is headed by Prof. Dr. Ralf Stannarius (retired). The head of the group is assigned to the Department MTRM (Daniela Grimm) of the Faculty of Medicine.
The key research areas of the group are the investigation of the structure and dynamics of granular materials, the experimental investigation of thin liquid crystalline films, and self-organization in nonlinear systems. One focus of the investigations is on experiments under microgravity conditions on different platforms (ZARM drop tower Bremen, parabolic flights, experiments on suborbital rockets and on the International Space Station ISS). Another important focus is the use of artificial intelligence methods to evaluate scientific experiments and to predict the behavior of simple dynamical systems based on previous observations without complete knowledge of the underlying equations of motion..
Selected highlights of previous activities (Research in my-G)
September/Oktober 2025
CNES Parabolic flight campaign in collaboration with Emmanuelle Lacaze
Smectic bubbles under the influence of high electric fields
The team for the 2. Flight Day, Caterina, Sébastien and Mohammad
November 2024
Suborbital Express IV mit dem Experiment JACKS an Bord in Kiruna, Schweden
Untersuchung granularer Gase aus nichtkonvexen Partikeln unter schwacher Anregung und bei Abkühlung ohne Anregung
Die Rakete Suborbital Express IV startete am 27.10.2024 mit 6 wissenschaftlichen Experimenten an Bord startete erfolgreich am 26.11.2024 von Kiruna. Die Teilnehmer der Campagne Kirsten Harth, Torsten Trittel, Ralf Stannarius vor den zum Start vorbereiteten Segmenten der Rakete mit den wissenschaftlichen Modulen.
September 2024
43. Parabolic Flight Campaign
Experiments with granular gases, new observation technique with intelligent internal sensors in the particles,
Projekt KORDYGA (K. Harth, TH Brandenburg)
September-October 2022
63. CNES Parabolic flight campaign in collaboration with Emmanuelle Lacaze
Smectic bubbles under the influence of high electric fields
Christoph Klopp and Caterina Tosarelli (2022 still under Corona precautions)
2020
73. ESA Parabolic flight campaign in the VipGran Project
Granular gases under strong excitation, clustering
Paderborn, October 26 - November 5, 2020
2018
The experiment EQUIPAGE on the New Shepard (Blue Origin) in van Horn (Texas)
Granular Gases under weak excitation and cooling of granular gases
Miission 9 of New Shepard in a Webcast (Blue Origin)
2015, 2018
The Experiment OASIS-TEx (Thermocapillary Experiments) in the framework of the TEXUS-Program of DLR on suborbital rockets (TEXUS 52 and TEXUS 55) in Kiruna, Northern Sweden.
Thermocapillary Experiments in Thin Liquid Crystal Films
TEXUS 52 in Esrange (Sweden) on April 27, 2015
2015-2016
The project OASIS (Observation and Analysis of Smectic Islands in Space) carried out together with the group of Noel Clark of University of Colorado in Boulder. Experiments at the International Space Station ISS.
Falcon 9 with the transporter Dragon (SpaceX) carrying the OASIS experiment to the ISS on April 14, 2015, 4:13 p.m.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/oasis/