Dr Sarah Loos

Sarah Loos completed her PhD in Statistical Physics at Technical University Berlin in 2020 and subsequentially worked as postdoctoral researcher in Germany (at Leipzig University) and Italy (at ICTP, Trieste). Since June 2022, she has been independent postdoctoral fellow in the Soft Matter Group at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, initially funded by a Walter-Benjamin research Fellowship from the German Research Foundation, and since September 2023 by a Marie-Curie Research Fellowship (undertaken by UKRI).

Sarah is generally interested in the theoretical description of complex systems that operate far from thermal equilibrium. In her research, she uses statistical physics and thermodynamics and combines them with concepts from control theory and nonlinear dynamics. Her current work is particularly concerned with stochastic thermodynamics, non-Markovian processes, and active matter. Key research questions include the notion of heat and entropy on small length scales and the manifestation of irreversibility from the level of individual particle trajectories to the collective motion of many-particle systems.