From the physics of soft condensed matter to information theory

I am initially physicist, experimenter in the field of soft condensed matter . That which is neither crystalline nor gaseous and undergoes physical phenomena which only become relevant at length scales much larger than that of its elementary components. In other words, soft condensed matter displays emergent phenomena and properties (e.g. self-organization, self-similarity, phase transitions) that are highly sensitive to certain quantities that are also emergent (e.g. thermal energy, entropy).

The concept of emergence brings into play the role of the scale of observation, and therefore that of the observer and of their knowledge. Here, physics meets epistemology, the theory of knowledge. The link is made through thermodynamics and information theory. This is the topic of my most recent papers.