Semjon Stepanow

PD Dr. Semjon Stepanow is a faculty member at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, affiliated with the Faculty of Natural Sciences II - Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics and the Department of Theoretical Physics. He leads the Work Group Statistical Physics and focuses on applying quantum field theoretical methods to condensed and soft matter physics.

His research spans polymer solutions, disordered systems, critical phenomena, and interface dynamics. He teaches courses including Quantum Field Methods in Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical Mechanics, and Theoretical Polymer Physics. He is the author of the textbook Relativistic Quantum Theory (Springer-Verlag, 2010).

Stepanow has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers. His recent work analyzes polymers in confined geometries, domain wall dynamics in disordered media, and fluctuations in copolymer systems, with applications of renormalization group and path integral methods. His publications include studies on semiflexible polymers (2004), directed polymers (1998), and polymer crystallization (2007).