Research topics: 

• The disorder state of matter and its transitions
• Phase segregation in glass-forming systems: nucleation, crystallization and liquid-liquid phase separation
• Relaxation of frozen-in systems, stabilization of glass
• Thermodynamics and kinetics of glass transition and glass formation
• Synthesis of amorphous, semi-crystalline and crystalline materials, glass ceramics and amorphous and semi-crystalline thin films
• Structural investigations of glasses using spectral methods and calorimetry
• Amorphous materials with nanosized metallic or semi-conducting microcrystals
• Modeling and computer simulations of statistical mechanical systems
• Static and dynamic properties of polymers and micelles
• Equilibrium polymerization: living polymers and giant micelles
• Theory of the glassy state solitons: misfit dislocations in thin epitaxial films

Gold microcrystals formed in a sodium metaphosphate glass

Spiral structures in Ag-Sb alloy coatings

Current Research Projects:

• Computer Simulation of Polyelectrolyte Models, Volkswagen-Stiftung;
• Computer Simulation of Living Polymers, NSF, USA;
• Transport Properties and Diffusion in Random Media, Greek-Bulgarian Joint Research Project, University of Thessaloniki, Greece;
• New Methods in Calorimetry and their Application to Investigation of Polymers, Copernicus Program of EU;
• Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Phase Formation Kinetics in Glass-Forming Melts, DFG, Germany;