Felix Ritort

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Small Biosystems Lab, Condensed Matter Physics Department, Facultat de Fisica
Universitat de Barcelona

Felix Ritort


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EDUCATION

1991 PhD in Physics, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain). Subject: Several Aspects on Spin Glass Theory. PhD advisors: G. Parisi and J. M. Rubí.
1989 Master in Physics (Licenciado en Ciencias Físicas) by the University of Barcelona

•  CURRENT POSITION(S)

2008 – Full professor in condensed matter physics at the University of Barcelona (Spain)

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Biophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Condensed Matter Physics
18573

Scholar Citations

57

Scholar h-index

157

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Determining the effective dna charge density from nanopore translocation dynamics
    A Colchero, I Pastor, F Ritort
    Nano Letters 26 (10), 3365-3372 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • Advanced autonomous optical tweezers experiments
    M Selin, A Ciarlo, G Pesce, L Bengtsson, J Camuñas-Soler, VS Rajan, ...
    Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence (ETAI) 2025, PC135850V , 2025
    2025
  • Stacking correlation length in single-stranded DNA (vol 52, pg 13243, 2024)
    X Viader-Godoy, M Manosas, F Ritort
    NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 53 (14) , 2025
    2025
  • Temperature-dependent funnel-like DNA folding landscapes
    M Rico-Pasto, M Ribezzi-Crivellari, F Ritort
    Nucleic Acids Research 53 (14), gkaf698 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • SmartTrap: Automated Precision Experiments with Optical Tweezers
    M Selin, A Ciarlo, G Pesce, L Bengtsson, J Camunas-Soler, VS Rajan, ...
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05290 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • DNA calorimetric force spectroscopy at single base pair resolution
    P Rissone, M Rico-Pasto, SB Smith, F Ritort
    Nature Communications 16 (1), 2688 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • About the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
    F Ritort
    Europhysics News 56 (1), 12-12 , 2025
    2025
  • Continuous-time random walk model for the diffusive motion of helicases
    V Rodríguez-Franco, MM Spiering, P Bianco, F Ritort, M Manosas
    QRB discovery 6, e26 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Stacking correlation length in single-stranded DNA
    X Viader-Godoy, M Manosas, F Ritort
    Nucleic Acids Research 52 (21), 13243-13254 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 10
  • Automatic optical tweezers: advanced applications
    M Selin, A Ciarlo, G Pesce, M Rey, L Bengtsson, J Camuñas-Soler, ...
    Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XXI, PC1311203 , 2024
    2024
  • Massively parallel analysis of single-molecule dynamics on next-generation sequencing chips
    J Aguirre Rivera, G Mao, A Sabantsev, M Panfilov, Q Hou, M Lindell, ...
    Science 385 (6711), 892-898 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 27
  • Universal cold RNA phase transitions
    P Rissone, A Severino, I Pastor, F Ritort
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (34), e2408313121 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 13
  • Variance sum rule: proofs and solvable models
    I Di Terlizzi, M Baiesi, F Ritort
    New Journal of Physics 26 (6), 063013 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 12
  • Nonequilibrium work relations for energy and information
    F Ritort
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04582 , 2024
    2024
  • VU Research Portal
    M Gironella-Torrent, G Bergamaschi, R Sorkin, GJL Wuite, F Ritort
    Biophysical Journal 123, 770-781 , 2024
    2024
  • Viscoelastic phenotyping of red blood cells
    M Gironella-Torrent, G Bergamaschi, R Sorkin, GJL Wuite, F Ritort
    Biophysical Journal 123 (7), 770-781 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 16
  • EPS Grand Challenges
    C Hidalgo, B van Tiggelen
    IOP publishing , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Physics for understanding life
    P Bassereau, A Cangelosi, J Čejková, C Gershenson, R Goldstein, ...
    EPS Grand Challenges: Physics for Society in the Horizon 2050 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Variance sum rule for entropy production
    I Di Terlizzi, M Gironella, D Herraez-Aguilar, T Betz, F Monroy, M Baiesi, ...
    Science 383 (6686), 971-976 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 95
  • Physics for health
    R Assmann, D Caldwell, G Cerullo, H Chapman, D Cialla-May, M Durante, ...
    EPS Grand Challenges: Physics for Society in the Horizon 2050 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The Kuramoto model: A simple paradigm for synchronization phenomena
    JA Acebrón, LL Bonilla, CJ Pérez Vicente, F Ritort, R Spigler
    Reviews of modern physics 77 (1), 137-185 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 4483
  • Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies
    D Collin, F Ritort, C Jarzynski, SB Smith, I Tinoco Jr, C Bustamante
    Nature 437 (7056), 231-234 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 1363
  • Glassy dynamics of kinetically constrained models
    F Ritort, P Sollich
    Advances in physics 52 (4), 219-342 , 2003
    2003
    Citations: 969
  • The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of small systems
    C Bustamante, J Liphardt, F Ritort
    Physics today 58 (7), 43-48 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 921
  • Single-molecule experiments in biological physics: methods and applications
    F Ritort
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 18 (32), R531-R583 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 634
  • Violation of the fluctuation–dissipation theorem in glassy systems: basic notions and the numerical evidence
    A Crisanti, F Ritort
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 36 (21), R181-R290 , 2003
    2003
    Citations: 467
  • Bias and error in estimates of equilibrium free-energy differences from nonequilibrium measurements
    J Gore, F Ritort, C Bustamante
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (22), 12564-12569 , 2003
    2003
    Citations: 418
  • Optical tweezers—from calibration to applications: a tutorial
    J Gieseler, JR Gomez-Solano, A Magazzù, I Pérez Castillo, ...
    Advances in Optics and Photonics 13 (1), 74-241 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 369
  • Single-molecule derivation of salt dependent base-pair free energies in DNA
    JM Huguet, CV Bizarro, N Forns, SB Smith, C Bustamante, F Ritort
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (35), 15431-15436 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 316
  • Experimental test of Hatano and Sasa's nonequilibrium steady-state equality
    EH Trepagnier, C Jarzynski, F Ritort, GE Crooks, CJ Bustamante, ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (42), 15038-15041 , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 284
  • Replica field theory for deterministic models. II. A non-random spin glass with glassy behaviour
    E Marinari, G Parisi, F Ritort
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 27 (23), 7647-7668 , 1994
    1994
    Citations: 278
  • Finite-time generalization of the thermodynamic uncertainty relation
    P Pietzonka, F Ritort, U Seifert
    Physical Review E 96 (1), 012101 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 270
  • Nonequilibrium fluctuations in small systems: From physics to biology
    F Ritort
    Advances in chemical physics 137, 31 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 270
  • Elastic properties and secondary structure formation of single-stranded DNA at monovalent and divalent salt conditions
    A Bosco, J Camunas-Soler, F Ritort
    Nucleic acids research 42 (3), 2064-2074 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 222
  • Roadmap for optical tweezers
    G Volpe, OM Maragò, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, G Pesce, AB Stilgoe, ...
    Journal of Physics: Photonics 5 (2), 022501 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 221
  • Force unfolding kinetics of RNA using optical tweezers. I. Effects of experimental variables on measured results
    JD Wen, M Manosas, PTX Li, SB Smith, C Bustamante, F Ritort, I Tinoco
    Biophysical journal 92 (9), 2996-3009 , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 208
  • Numerical evidence for spontaneously broken replica symmetry in 3D spin glasses
    E Marinari, G Parisi, J Ruiz-Lorenzo, F Ritort
    Physical review letters 76 (5), 843 , 1996
    1996
    Citations: 188
  • Glassiness in a model without energy barriers
    F Ritort
    Physical review letters 75 (6), 1190 , 1995
    1995
    Citations: 186
  • Replica field theory for deterministic models: I. Binary sequences with low autocorrelation
    E Marinari, G Parisi, F Ritort
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 27 (23), 7615-7645 , 1994
    1994
    Citations: 183
  • Experimental free-energy measurements of kinetic molecular states using fluctuation theorems
    A Alemany, A Mossa, I Junier, F Ritort
    Nature Physics 8 (9), 688-694 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 157