Dr. Benoît Mahault

Dr. Benoît Mahault

Group leader
Scientist
Group: Motile active matter
Living Matter Physics
+49 551 5176-185
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I am a theoretical physicist interested in the study of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and its application to living matter. My current research work particularly focuses on emergent self-organized behaviors of living and nonliving active matter systems, such as the transition to collective motion or Bose-Einstein-like condensation due to motility inhibition.

I obtained my Ph.D. from Université Paris-Saclay in 2018 working with Hugues Chaté. After occupying a short postdoctoral position in the former group of Prof. Masaki Sano at Tokyo University, I joined the Living Matter Physics Department in 2019 as a postdoctoral researcher and was promoted to group leader in 2021.

Recent publications

Benoît Mahault, Prakhar Godara, and Ramin Golestanian, Emergent organization and polarization due to active fluctuationsPhys. Rev. Research 5 L022012 (2023).

Jonas Berx, Aritra Bose, Ramin Golestanian, and Benoît Mahault, Reentrant condensation transition in a model of driven scalar active matter with diffusivity edge,  EPL 142 67004 (2023).

Lorenzo Piro, Benoît Mahault, and Ramin Golestanian, Optimal navigation of microswimmers in complex and noisy environments, New J. Phys. 24, 093037 (2022).

Benoît Mahault, Evelyn Tang, Ramin Golestanian, A topological fluctuation theorem, Nat. Commun. 13, 3036 (2022).

Fanlong Meng, Daiki Matsunaga, Benoît Mahault, and Ramin Golestanian, Magnetic microswimmers exhibit Bose-Einstein-like condensationPhys. Rev. Lett. 126, 078001 (2021).

Benoît Mahault and Hugues Chaté, Long-Range Nematic Order in Two-Dimensional Active MatterPhys. Rev. Lett. 127, 048003 (2021).

Yu Duan, Benoît Mahault, Yu-qiang Ma, Xia-qing Shi, and Hugues Chaté, Breakdown of Ergodicity and Self-Averaging in Polar Flocks with Quenched Disorder, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 178001 (2021).

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