Yuri Martínez Ratón
Full Professor
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Yuri Martínez is currently a Full Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). His main research interest is the study of liquid-crystalline and colloidal fluids as well as granular media, using statistical physics theoretical models, Monte Carlo simulations, and experiments
Interests
- Phase transitions in liquid crystals under bulk conditions or under extreme confinement.
- Effect of particle aggregates on the symmetries of liquid-crystal fluids.
- Role of particle size polydispersity on the stacking phase sequences in sedimented complex fluids.
- Orientational symmetries of particles in vertically vibrated monolayers of anisotropic metallic grains.
- Topological defects of the orientational ordering field in granular monolayers confined in cavities with different symmetries.