Prof. Dr. Jordi Marti

My main interest concerns the study of Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical Mechanics, focussing my work on the liquid phase. I spend most of my research activity working on theory and applications to the structure and dynamics of simple and complex liquids, with special attention paid to water, alcohol, and aqueous electrolyte solutions. I have performed computer simulations with several methods: Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, Empirical Valence Bond, Transition Path Sampling. In recent years, I have participated in studies of rare events and its applications to biological systems, in the modeling and simulation of cell membranes, the interactions of proteins and small-molecules with biomembranes, and in the study of liquid, supercritical water, and ionic solutions under confinement in hydrophobic surfaces, considering mainly organic containers, in particular several forms of carbon, such as single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene. I am also working on proton transfer in aqueous environments and under restricted geometries and on the study of helium nucleation inside the lead-lithium blankets of nuclear fusion reactors.