RainerKlages

Curriculum Vitae

{ Highest academic degree: Habilitation in Theoretical Physics

{ Academic position: Reader in Applied Mathematics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)

{ Field of research: Dynamical systems, complexity and nonequilibrium statistical physics withapplications to bio- and nanosystems

{ International experience: 12 years UK, 2 1/2 years USA, 2 1/2 years Belgium, 1/2 yearHungary; more than 20 invited international visits

{ Funding: more than 30 scholarships, research grants and conference fundings awarded

{ Publications: 4 books, 1 proceedings, 5 book chapters, 47 journal articles and 25 other publica-tions cited more than 1100 times(WoS, including books); more than 1600 times(Google Scholar);h-index: 15(WoS); 21(Google Scholar, including books)

{ Organizations: 4 international conferences, 1 advanced study group, 16 workshops/symposia

{ Presentations: 47 invited and 48 contributed talks at international conferences, 12 colloquia,62 invited and 22 contributed seminars, 16 outreach activities

{ Refereeing: around 500 reports for more than 60 international journals, publishing companiesand research organizations (currently about 60 reports/year)

{ Supervision: 5 postdocs, 5 PhD students, 14 masters students (awarding 3 prizes for theirtheses works) and 4 trainees

{ Teaching: 20 courses and more than 30 tutorials in physics and mathematics plus many seminarand colloquiums organizations; teaching typically rated by students with marks of 4 to 5/5

{ Honours, Awards, Editorships: Divisional Associate Editor of PRL (renewed for a 2nd term)and Outstanding Referee Award of the APS (USA); EPSRC Grant Panel co-chair, memberand Peer Review College member (UK); member of national Australian, Italian and GermanResearch Councils; member of the Japanese NOLTA Technical Program Committee and IEICEjournal Guest Associate Editor; scientific committee member of the conference Chaos, Com-plexity and Transport, Marseille/France; University Contribution Reward at QMUL (UK) and 5Young Scientist Awards in Germany

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Personal detailsname Rainer Klages

place, date of birth Berlin (Germany), 21st March 1966

nationality German

private address 3 Nightingale Court, Nightingale Lane, London E11 2EU, UK

mailing address Queen Mary University of London, School of Mathematical Sciences,Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK

T (+44) 077 8956 7956 (home); (+44) 020 7882 5448 (work)

B r.klages@qmul.ac.uk

Í http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/˜klages

languages German (mother tongue); English: excellent; French: good

Academic degrees

Habilitation (Dr. habil.)

thesis title Microscopic chaos, fractals, and transport in nonequilibrium steady states

field of research complex dynamical systems and nonequilibrium statistical physics

supervisor Prof. P.Fulde, Max Planck Inst. for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

degree obtained 28/06/2004

class not graded

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.)

thesis title Deterministic diffusion in one-dimensional chaotic dynamical systems

field of research: dynamical systems theory and nonequilibrium statistical physics

supervisors Prof. J.R.Dorfman, Inst. for Physical Science and Technology, University ofMaryland, USA and Prof. S.Hess, Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Berlin

degree obtained 07/12/1995

class summa cum laude (best grade)

Diploma (Dipl.-Phys.)

thesis title Theoretical analysis of the Boltzmann collision term of kinetic theory andcalculation of transport coefficients

field of research nonequilibrium statistical physics, computer simulations, kinetic theory

supervisor Prof. S.Hess, Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Berlin

degree obtained 05/08/1992

class very good (best grade)

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Scientific career

Academic employment

07/2015–06/2016 Convenor of an Advanced Study Group and guest scientist at the MaxPlanck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Dresden

06/2012–06/2015 Director of Postgraduate Research Studies and member of variousacademic committees at the School of Mathematical Sciences and at QueenMary University of London, QMUL

since 11/2011 Reader in Applied Mathematics at QMUL

07/2009 and 2010 twice promotion to Senior Lecturer offered by QMUL; declined

12/2006–11/2011 permanent post as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at QMUL

07/2004–12/2006 4 1/2-year fixed-term post as a Lecturer at QMUL; probation period suc-cesfully completed after 2 years (one year earlier)

Postdoc

03/2000–06/2004 Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the MPIPKS Dresden

10/1997–02/2000 Postdoc with Profs. P.Gaspard and G.Nicolis at the Center for NonlinearPhenomena and Complex Systems, ULB, supported by grants of the DFG(German National Science Foundation) and of the European Union

02/1997–09/1997 Postdoc with Prof. T.Tél at the Eötvös University, Budapest, supported bya grant of the DFG

03/1996–12/1996 Postdoc with Prof. J.R.Dorfman at the Institute for Physical Science andTechnology (IPST), University of Maryland, USA, supported by grants of theDFG and IPST

PhD

12/1995 PhD in physics, TU Berlin (grade: summa cum laude)

07/1995–02/1996 PhD Research Assistant with Prof. S.Hess, TU Berlin

01/1994–06/1995 PhD student at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Berlin, supported bya PhD scholarship of the government of Berlin

08/1992–12/1993 PhD student of Prof. J.R.Dorfman at the IPST, supported by two PhDscholarships of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Education

10/1985–08/1992 study of physics and philosophy at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany

07/1992 Diploma in physics (grade 1 - best grade)

02/1989 Zwischenprüfung in philosophy (end of my basic studies, not graded)

04/1988 Vordiplom in physics (end of my basic studies, grade 1)

12/1984 Abitur (grade 1.6 - school’s second best)

1978–1984 Freiherr-vom-Stein-Oberschule (high school), Berlin-Spandau

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Publications

green for books/book chapters, red for selected papers

Books, book chapters and journal articles1. V.V.Palyulin, V.N.Mantsevich, R.Klages, R.Metzler, A.V.Chechkin, Comparison of pure and

combined search strategies for single and multiple targets, in: Eur. Phys. J. B, special issue onContinuous Time Random Walk – fifty years on (accepted for publication, July 2017)

2. V.V.Palyulin, A.V.Chechkin, R.Klages, R.Metzler, Search reliability and search efficiency of com-bined Lévy-Brownian motion: long relocations mingled with thorough local exploration, J. Phys.A: Math. Theor. 49, 394002/1–21 (2016) (Marian Smoluchowski special issue)

3. J.P.Taylor-King, R.Klages, S.Fedotov, R.A.Van Gorder, A Fractional Diffusion Equation for ann-Dimensional Correlated Lévy Walk, Phys. Rev. E 94, 012104/1–10 (2016)

4. R.Klages, Chaos in Statistical Physics, invited book chapter in: S.Bullet, T.Fearn, F.Smith(Editors), Dynamical and complex systems (LTCC Advanced Mathematics Series Vol. 5, WorldScientific, Singapore, 2017), p.1-40; ISBN 9781786341020

5. R.Klages, Search for food of birds, fish and insects, invited book chapter in: A.Bunde, J.Caro,J.Kaerger, G.Vogl (Editors), Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society (Springer,Berlin, 2016); accepted (April 2016)

6. R. Klages, Extrem gesucht, Physik Journal 14 (12), 6-7 (2015) (News and Views article, inGerman)

7. L.Salari, L.Rondoni, C.Giberti, R.Klages, A simple non-chaotic map generating subdiffusive, dif-fusive and superdiffusive dynamics, Chaos 25, 073113/1–11 (2015)

8. P.Dieterich, R.Klages and A.V.Chechkin, Fluctuation relations for anomalous dynamics gen-erated by time-fractional Fokker-Planck equations, invited contribution to Special Issue onStochastic Thermodynamics, New J. Phys. 17, 075004/1–14 (2015)

9. C.S.Rodrigues, A.V.Chechkin, A.P.S. de Moura, C.Grebogi, R.Klages Diffusion in randomly per-turbed dissipative dynamics, Europhys.Lett. 108, 40002/1–6 (2014)

10. R.Klages, Weak chaos, infinite ergodic theory, and anomalous dynamics, invited book chapter in:X.Leoncini and M.Leonetti (Editors), From Hamiltonian Chaos to Complex Systems (Springer,Berlin, 2013), p.3-42; ISBN 978-1-4614-6961-2

11. F.Lenz, A.V.Chechkin, R.Klages, Constructing a stochastic model of bumblebee flights fromexperimental data, PLoS ONE 8, e59036/1–7 (2013)

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12. R.Klages, W.Just, C.Jarzynski (Editors), Nonequilibrium statistical physics of small systems:Fluctuation relations and beyond (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2013; 418 pages; ISBN 978-3-527-41094-1)

13. R.Klages, A.V.Chechkin, P.Dieterich, Anomalous fluctuation relations, book chapter in Ref.[3]above, p.259-282 (2013)

14. A.V.Chechkin, F.Lenz, R.Klages, Normal and anomalous fluctuation relations for Gaussianstochastic dynamics, J.Stat.Mech. L11001/1-13 (2012)

15. G.Knight, O.Georgiou, C.P.Dettmann, R.Klages, Dependence of chaotic diffusion on the sizeand position of holes, Chaos 22, 023132/1–12 (2012)

16. F.Lenz, T.Ings, A.V.Chechkin, L.Chittka, R.Klages, Spatio-temporal dynamics of bumble-bees foraging under predation risk, Phys.Rev.Lett. 108, 098103/1–5 (2012)

17. F.Waldner, R.Klages, Symmetric Jacobian for local Lyapunov exponents and Lyapunov stabilityanalysis revisited, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 45, 325–340 (2012)

18. G.Knight, R.Klages, Capturing correlations in chaotic diffusion by approximation methods,Phys.Rev. E 84, 041135/1–11 (2011)

19. R.Klages, book review of ’Chaos – The Science of Predictable Random Motion’ by R.Kautz(Oxford University Press, 2011, 369 pages), J.Stat.Phys. 144, 918 – 919 (2011)

20. R.Klages, invited book review of ’Chaos – The Science of Predictable Random Motion’ byR.Kautz (Oxford University Press, 2011, 369 pages), Physik Journal 10 (7), 48 (2011; in Ger-man)

21. M.Colangeli, R.Klages, P.de Gregorio, L.Rondoni, Steady state fluctuation relation and time-reversibility for non-smooth chaotic maps, J.Stat.Mech. P04021/1–22 (2011)

22. G.Knight, R.Klages, Linear and fractal diffusion coefficients in a family of one dimensionalchaotic maps, Nonlinearity 24, 227–241 (2011)

23. R.Klages, From Deterministic Chaos to Anomalous Diffusion, invited book chapter in: H.G.Schu-ster (Editor), Reviews of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity Vol. 3 ( Wiley-VCH, Weinheim,2010, p.169-227; ISBN 978-3-527-40945-7)

24. A.V.Chechkin, R.Klages, Fluctuation relations for anomalous dynamics, J. Stat. Mech. L03002/1–11 (2009)

25. R. Klages, I.M. Sokolov, G. Radons, Editors, Anomalous Transport (Wiley VCH, Weinheim,2008; 584 pages; ISBN 978-3-527-40722-4)

26. G.Keller, P.Howard, R.Klages, Continuity properties of transport coefficients in simple maps,Nonlinearity 21, 1719–1743 (2008)

27. P.Dieterich, R.Klages, R.Preuss, A.Schwab, Anomalous dynamics of cell migration, PNAS 105,459–463 (2008)

28. R.Klages, Microscopic chaos, fractals and transport in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (Ad-vanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics Vol. 24, World Scientific, Singapore, 2007; 456 pages;ISBN 978-981-256-507-5)

29. R.Klages, book review of ’Chaos – A very short introduction’ von L.Smith (Oxford UniversityPress, 2007, 180 pages), Physik Journal 6 (12), 72 (2007; in German)

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30. R.Klages, invited Book review of ’Chaos – A very short introduction’ by L.Smith (Oxford Uni-versity Press, 2007, 180 pages); J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40, 8604-8605 (2007)

31. N.Korabel, R.Klages, A.V.Chechkin, I.M.Sokolov, V.Yu. Gonchar, Fractal anomalous diffusionin intermittent dynamical systems, Phys. Rev. E 75, 036213/1–14 (2007)

32. R.Klages, Als Lecturer in Grossbritannien - ein Erfahrungsbericht, Physik Journal 5 (11), 23 –24 (2006)

33. R.Klages, G.Radons, I.M.Sokolov, Anomalous Transport: Experimental Results and TheoreticalChallenges, Kurzbericht zum 373. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Physik Journal 5 (10), 63 (2006)

34. N.Korabel, A.V.Chechkin, R.Klages, I.M.Sokolov, V.Yu.Gonchar, Understanding anomalous trans-port in intermittent maps: from continuous time random walks to fractals, Europhys. Lett. 70,63–69 (2005)

35. R.Klages, I.F.Barna, L.Matyas, Spiral modes in the diffusion of a single granular particle on avibrating surface, Phys. Lett. A 333, 79–84 (2004)

36. L.Matyas, R.Klages, Irregular diffusion in the bouncing ball billiard, Physica D 187, 165–183(2004) (special issue)

37. N.Korabel, R.Klages, Fractality of deterministic diffusion in the nonhyperbolic climbing sinemap, Physica D 187, 66–88 (2004) (special issue)

38. R.Klages, T.Klauss, Fractal fractal dimensions of deterministic transport coefficients, J.Phys.A:Math. Gen. 36, 5747–5764 (2003)

39. K.Rateitschak, R.Klages, Lyapunov instability for a periodic Lorentz gas thermostated by deter-ministic scattering, Phys. Rev. E 65, 036209/1–11 (2002)

40. T.Harayama, R.Klages, P.Gaspard, Deterministic diffusion in flower-shaped billiards, Phys. Rev.E 66, 026211/1–7 (2002)

41. R.Klages, Comment on “Analysis of chaotic motion and its shape dependence in a generalizedpiecewise linear map, Phys. Rev. E 66, 018201/1–3 (2002)

42. J.Groeneveld, R.Klages Negative and nonlinear response in an exactly solved dynamical modelof particle transport, J. Stat. Phys. 109, 821-861 (2002) (special issue)

43. N.Korabel, R.Klages, Fractal structures of normal and anomalous diffusion in nonlinear nonhy-perbolic dynamical systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 214102/1–4 (2002)

44. R.Klages, H.van Beijeren, P.Gaspard and J.R.Dorfman, Editors, Microscopic chaos and transportin many-particle systems (Physica D Special Issue 187, 396 pages, 2004)

45. R.Klages, Suppression and enhancement of deterministic diffusion in disordered dynamical sys-tems, Phys. Rev. E 65, 055203(R)/1–4 (2002)

46. R.Klages, Transitions from deterministic to stochastic diffusion, Europhys. Lett. 57, 796-802(2002)

47. R.Klages, N.Korabel, Understanding deterministic diffusion by correlated random walks, J.Phys.A:Math. Gen. 35, 4823-4836 (2002) (IoP featured article)

48. K.Rateitschak, R.Klages, G.Nicolis, Thermostating by deterministic scattering: the periodicLorentz gas, J. Stat. Phys. 99, 1339–1364 (2000)

49. K.Rateitschak, R.Klages, W.G.Hoover, The Nosé-Hoover thermostated Lorentz gas, J. Stat.Phys. 101, 61–77 (2000) (special issue)

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50. R.Klages, K.Rateitschak, G.Nicolis, Thermostating by deterministic scattering: Construction ofNonequilibrium Steady States, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4268–4271 (2000)

51. R.Klages, Chr.Dellago Density-dependent diffusion in the periodic Lorentz gas, J. Stat. Phys.101, 145-159 (2000) (special issue)

52. C.Wagner, R.Klages, G.Nicolis, Thermostating by deterministic scattering: heat and shear flow,Phys. Rev. E 60, 1401–1411 (1999)

53. R.Klages, J.R.Dorfman, Simple deterministic dynamical systems with fractal diffusion coeffi-cients, Phys. Rev. E 59, 5361–5383 (1999)

54. P.Gaspard, R.Klages, Chaotic and fractal properties of deterministic diffusion-reaction processes,Chaos 8, 409–423 (1998)

55. R.Klages, J.R.Dorfman, Dynamical crossover in deterministic diffusion, Phys. Rev. E 55, R1247–R1250 (1997)

56. R.Klages, Deterministic diffusion in one-dimensional chaotic dynamical systems (Wissenschaftund Technik Verlag, Berlin, 1996; 127 pages; ISBN 3-928943-49-9)

57. R.Klages, J.R.Dorfman, Simple maps with fractal diffusion coefficients, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74,387–390 (1995)

Conference proceedings (not refereed)

58. P.Dieterich, O.Lindemann, M.L.Moskopp, S.Tauzin, A.Huttenlocher, R.Klages, A.V.Chechkin,A.Schwab, Asymmetric anomalous diffusion of chemotacting neutrophils, Acta Physiologica 219,68 (2017)

59. S.Gil, J.Solanpaeae, T.Haemaelainen, E.Raesaenen and R.Klages, Chaotic diffusion in periodiclattices with repulsive potentials, diffusion-fundamentals.org 24 (2015) 18, p.1

60. R.Klages, Deterministic chaos and diffusion: from theory to experiment, in: J.Kaerger, F.Grinberg,P.Heitjans (Eds.), Diffusion Fundamentals, Leipziger Universitaetsverlag, Leipzig (2005), p.148-149; ISBN 3-86583-073-0

61. P.Dieterich, R.Preuss, R.Klages, V.Dreval, C.Stock, A.Schwab, Brownian motion of migratingcells?, in: E.Schoell, K.Luedge (Eds.), XXV Dynamics Days Europe 2005. Europhysics Confer-ence Series, Vol. 29 E. TU Berlin (2005), p.155; ISBN 2-914771-26-6

62. N.Korabel, R.Klages, Deterministic diffusion in smooth nonlinear maps, in: W. Klonowski (Ed.),From Quanta to Societies, Proceedings of EUROATTRACTOR 2001, Pabst Science Publishers,Lengerich, Berlin (2002); ISBN 3-89967-070-1

63. R.Klages, H.van Beijeren, P.Gaspard, J.R.Dorfman, Microscopic Chaos and Transport in Many-Particle Systems: Preface, Physica D 187, 1–2 (2004) (special issue)

64. more than 20 contributions to the Proceedings of the German Physical Society, Verhandl. DPG(1991ff); details are available on my homepage

Fully worked-out lecture notes (basis for another book)

{ R.Klages, Introduction to Dynamical Systems, 76 pages; seehttp://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/˜klages/teaching/mas424/lnotes_ds2007f.pdf

Articles in preparation (chronological order)

78. A.Cairoli, A.Baule, R.Klages, Galilean invariance in stochastic diffusive dynamics, letter to besubmitted to Nature Physics

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79. J.M.Nava-Sedeno, H.Hatzikirou, R.Klages, A.Deutsch, Cellular automaton models for time-correlated random walks: derivation and analysis, to be submitted to Scientific Reports

80. Y.Sato, R.Klages, Anomalous diffusion in random dynamical systems, project finished, shortpaper (PRL) almost ready for submission

81. R.Klages, S.Gil Gallegos, T.Hämäläinen, J.Solanpää, E.Räsänen, Chaotic diffusion in soft repul-sive periodic potentials, project finished, short (PRL) and long paper in preparation

82. P.Dieterich, A.V.Chechkin, A.Schwab, R.Klages, Anomalous dynamics of cell migration underchemical gradients, paper (PNAS) almost ready for submission

Scientific organizations

asg 2015 wchaos 2011 anotrans 2006 chaotran 2002

Advanced Study Group

July - Dec. 2015 Statistical Physics and Anomalous Dynamics of Foraging, R.Klages,F.Bartumeus, D.Boyer, A.V.Chechkin, L. Giuggioli, J. Pitchford, MPIPKSDresden (6 months, 30 guests)

International conferences (all as main organizer)

Aug. 2017 International workshop on Anomalous Dynamics in Complex Systems: FromChaos on Nanoscales to Search in Biology, Tampere, Finland

Jul./Aug. 2011 International workshop and seminar on Weak Chaos, Infinite Ergodic The-ory, and Anomalous Dynamics, R.Klages, R.Zweimüller, E.Barkai, H.Kantz,MPIPKS Dresden (3 weeks, 90 participants)

July 2006 International Heraeus Seminar on Anomalous Transport: ExperimentalResults and Theoretical Challenges, R.Klages, G.Radons I.M.Sokolov, BadHonnef, Germany (4 days, around 70 participants)

Aug. 2002 International workshop und seminar on Microscopic Chaos and Transportin Many-Particle Systems, R.Klages, H.van Beijeren, P.Gaspard, J.R.Dorfman,MPIPKS Dresden (3 weeks, 80 participants)

Small workshops

July 2017 Third Focus Week Meeting of the Advanced Study Group on StatisticalPhysics and Anomalous Dynamics of Foraging, QMUL, London

Nov. 2015 Second Focus Week Meeting of the Advanced Study Group on StatisticalPhysics and Anomalous Dynamics of Foraging, MPIPKS Dresden

Sept. 2015 First Focus Week Meeting of the Advanced Study Group on StatisticalPhysics and Anomalous Dynamics of Foraging, MPIPKS Dresden

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May 2014 organization of the Postgraduate Research Day as Director of the PhD pro-gramme of the School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL, with PhD studentspresenting talks and posters

May 2013 organization of the Postgraduate Research Day in mathematics, QMUL

June 2012 Workshop of the London Dynamical Systems Group (LDSG) on Fluctu-ations in dynamical systems far from equilibrium, R.Klages, F.Renzoni, QMUL

March 2012 interdisciplinary DPG symposium at the Spring Meeting of the GermanPhysical Society (DPG) on Statistics of Cellular Motion, C.Beta, R.Klages,P.Dieterich, L.Schimansky-Geier, Berlin

May 2011 LDSG workshop on Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Optical Lattices,F.Renzoni, R.Klages, UCL

March 2011 DPG Symposium at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Soci-ety on Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics of Small Systems, P.Hänggi,R.Klages, W.Just, H.G.Schuster, Dresden

Aug. 2010 LDSG workshop on Mathematical Modeling of Dynamics in Biological Sys-tems, QMUL, London

July 2010 LDSG workshop on Anomalous Transport in Nonlinear Lattices: From The-ory to Experiment, F.Renzoni, R.Klages, UCL, London

July 2009 LDSG Workshop on Understanding the Dynamics of Foraging Bumblebees,T.Ings, R.Klages, QMUL

June 2009 LDSG Workshop on Dynamics in Chaotic and Stochastic Systems: FromMathematical Models to Physical Systems, F.Renzoni, R.Klages, QMUL

Feb. 2009 LDSG Workshop on Statistical Properties of Ergodic Systems, I.Melbourne,H.Bruin, S.Luzzatto, R.Klages, University of Surrey

May 2007 LDSG Workshop on Anomalous Diffusion in Deterministic Systems,I.Melbourne and R.Klages, University of Surrey, UK

June 2001 Invited minisymposium on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, organizedby R.Klages for the Dynamics Days Europe, Dresden

Research seminars

2004 - 2006,2016

organization of the Dynamical Systems and Statistical Physics Seminarat QMUL

2000 – 2004 invitation of 16 colloquium speakers, 16 seminar speakers and 8 guests forlonger research visits at MPIPKS Dresden

WS 1999/2000 organization of a seminar on Statistical physics and stochastic processestogether with Prof. G.Nicolis at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Administrative duties

2016/17 exam board member and student PASS coordinator at QMUL

2012- 2014 Director of Postgraduate Research Studies at QMUL and member ofvarious academic committees

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2011 - 2012 careers coordinator and postgraduate research selector at QMUL

2008-2010 careers coordinator at QMUL, scientific manager of the London Dynam-ical Systems Group and member of the Mathematics Examination Board atQMUL

2007/2008 ERASMUS/SOCRATES exchange student coordinator at QMUL

2003 help in organizing the Long Night of the Sciences at the MPIPKS

July 1992 technical assistance for organizing the international conference on statisticalphysics (STATPHYS) at the TU Berlin

Research funding: scholarships, grantsPrincipal Investigator (PI), Co-Investigator (CI), or others as stated.

June 2017 2-year research grant awarded from the Office of Naval ResearchGlobal (USA/UK) for project on Advanced Search Strategies in Anoma-lous Dynamics: Models, Methods, Applications; includes full funding of myown salary (PI, US$240,000)

June 2015 6-months project grant awarded from the Office of Naval ResearchGlobal (USA/UK) to support a guest scientist and a project student for anAdvanced Study Group at MPIPKS Dresden (CI, approx. US$27,700)

Nov. 2014 6-months guest scientist position awarded from MPIPKS Dresdenfor follow-up Advanced Study Group project on search efficiency (PI, approx.e32,000)

Oct. 2014 4+2x1/2 PhD studentships awarded from QMUL for the School ofMathematical Sciences (SMS) by a proposal written as director of PGR studies(approx. £240,000)

Aug. 2014 6-months Advanced Study Group awarded from the Max Planck So-ciety on the topic Statistical physics and anomalous dynamics of foraging asteam leader, to be carried out at MPIPKS Dresden in 2015 (PI, e78,000)

Oct. 2013 5 PhD studentships awarded from QMUL for the School of MathematicalSciences (SMS) by a proposal written as director of PGR studies (approx.£230,000)

Dec. 2012 2-year Doctoral Training Grant awarded from EPSRC for SMS at QMULby a proposal written as director of PGR studies (£210,500)

Oct. 2012 5 PhD studentships awarded from QMUL for SMS by a proposal writtenas director of PGR studies (approx. £230,000)

Sept. 2011 grant awarded from QMUL/EPSRC to invite potential collaborators oncomplexity research (CI, £10,000)

July 2011 small grant awarded from the German Physical Society (DPG) toorganize an interdisciplinary symposium on Statistics of Cellular Motion at theSpring Meeting of the DPG, Berlin, March 2012 (CI, approx. e2000)

June 2011 grant awarded from the Office of Naval Research (USA) to partiallysupport the 3-week international conference on Weak Chaos, Infinite ErgodicTheory, and Anomalous Dynamics (CI, $10000)

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May 2011 selected as a scholar for the conference ‘Building Bridges: Top researchersfor Germany, top research in Germany’ (full funding for travel and accommo-dation awarded; included a reception by the President of Germany)

Feb. 2011 small research grant awarded from the London Mathematical Societyfor the project Fluctuation relations for anomalous dynamics (PI, £1840)

Oct. 2010 small grant awarded from the DPG to organize a symposium on Thermo-dynamics and Statistical Physics of Small Systems at the Spring Meeting ofthe DPG (PI, approx. e5000)

Apr. 2010 funding awarded from the MPIPKS Dresden to organize a 3-week inter-national conference with 90 participants in Summer 2011 (PI, approx. e53500)

Fall 2009 grant awarded from the London Mathematical Society (LMS) as theworkshop coordinator of the London Dynamical Systems Group (PI, £1400)

Mar. 2009 research grant awarded from the QMUL Bridging the Gaps initiativefor the interdisciplinary project Anomalous dynamics of foraging bumblebees(PI, £7000)

Fall 2008 grant awarded from LMS as the workshop coordinator of the London Dy-namical Systems Group (PI, £1400)

Fall 2007 grant awarded from the LMS as the workshop coordinator of the LondonDynamical Systems Group (PI, £1400)

Sept. 2006 2-year research grant awarded from the British EPSRC council forproject on Anomalous deterministic transport and fluctuation relations; in-cludes partial funding of my own salary and a 2-year postdoc position (PI,£250,000)

Fall 2006 full funding awarded from the London Dynamical Systems Group to or-ganize a 1-day international workshop on Anomalous diffusion in deterministicsystems (CI, £300)

2005 full funding awarded from the Heraeus foundation to organize a 4-dayinternational seminar with about 70 participants (PI, e14500)

2001 full funding awarded from the MPIPKS Dresden to organize a 3-weekinternational conference with about 90 participants, plus proceedings (PI)

2001 full funding awarded from the MPIPKS Dresden to organize an invitedminisymposium at the Dynamics Days Europe, Dresden (PI)

Jan. 2000 1-year Habilitation fellowship awarded from the DFG (declined); grantto cover travel expenses awarded from the DFG (e2000)

Dec. 1999 3-year Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Max Planck Institutefor Physics of Complex Systems awarded (plus one year prolongation)

Aug. 1997 full conference grant awarded to participate at the 13th International Sum-mer School of Statistical Physics, Altenberg, Germany; poster prize awardedfor most thought-provoking presentation

1996-98 three postdoc grants awarded from the DFG

1994/95 PhD scholarship awarded from the city of Berlin

1992/93 two PhD scholarships awarded from the DAAD

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Sept. 1991 financial support awarded to participate at the Summer School of the In-stitute for Plasma Physics, Garching

Honours, awards, editorships, committees

Dec. 2016 invitation to continue serving as Divisional Associate Editor for PhysicalReview Letters for a second term

Sept. 2016 invitation to continue serving on the EPSRC Peer Review College

Sept. 2016 invitation by the EPSRC to be co-chair of a grant prioritisation paneldeciding about £12,000,000 of grant money applications

March 2016 invitation to participate in the national Italian research evaluation VQR

Oct. 2014 invitation to be scientific committee member of the international confer-ence Chaos, Complexity and Transport in Marseille, France, 2015

March/Sept. 2014 invitation to join the NOLTA Technical Program Committee and to be-come guest associate editor of the journal Nonlinear Theory and Its Appli-cations, IEICE (Japan)

June 2014 invitation by the EPSRC to be member of a grant prioritisation paneldeciding about £19,000,000 of grant money applications

Dec. 2013 invitation by the American Physical Society to become Divisional AssociateEditor for Physical Review Letters

Oct. 2013 invitation to become assessor for the Australian Research Council

Feb. 2010 invitation to become member of the EPSRC Peer Review College honouringmy work as a referee for EPSRC

Nov. 2009 Outstanding Referee Award 2010 from the American Physical Societyhonouring my work as a referee for the Physical Review journals

Dec. 2008 Contribution Reward awarded by QMUL in form of exceptional salaryincrease for demonstrating leadership, conscientiousness and high competencythroughout the tasks you undertake and for having performed exceptionally inall areas of your role

Aug. 1997 poster prize awarded for ‘most thought-provoking presentation’ at the 13thInternational Summer School of Statistical Physics, Altenberg, Germany

1982 – 1986 repeated succesful participation at a “young researchers”- competition(Jugend forscht, Landeswettbewerb Berlin): 2nd place and special award inphysics, 3rd place in biology, special award in mathematics/computer science

Teaching experience

Queen Mary University of London, School of Math. Sciences

Spring 2017 undergraduate course and two exercise classes Differential Equationswith about 240 students

Fall 2016 postgraduate course and exercise class Dynamical Systems; two exerciseclasses in Mathematical Structures

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Spring 2015 undergraduate course and exercise classes Calculus 2; flagship course ofthe department with 290 students; strong e-learning component

Fall 2014 exercise class in Mathematical Structures

Spring 2014 undergraduate course and exercise classes Calculus 2 with 280 students

Spring 2013 undergraduate course and exercise classes Calculus 2 with 250 students

Fall 2012 exercise class in Mathematical Structures

Spring 2012 undergraduate course and exercise classes Calculus 2 with 290 students

Fall 2011 exercise class in Linear Algebra 1

Spring 2010 1st year PhD course Applied Dynamical Systems; two exercise classes inDifferential and Integral Analysis

Fall 2009 undergraduate course and exercise classes Calculus 1; flagship course ofthe department with 260 students; strong e-learning component

Spring 2008 part of the 1st year PhD course Applied Dynamical Systems at the LTCCand two exercise classes in Differential Equations

Fall 2008 undergraduate course and exercise classes Calculus 1 with 340 students

Spring 2007 part of the 1st year PhD course Applied Dynamical Systems at the LTCC,and two exercise classes in Differential Equations

Fall 2007 postgraduate course and exercise class Introduction to Dynamical Sys-tems and two exercise classes in Probability 2

Spring 2007 postgraduate course and exercise class Introduction to Dynamical Sys-tems; undergraduate course and exercise class Quantum Theory

Fall 2006 two exercise classes in Probability 2

Spring 2006 undergraduate course and exercise class Quantum Theory; exercise classin Discrete Mathematics

Fall 2005 postgraduate course and exercise class Introduction to Dynamical Sys-tems; two exercise classes in Probability 2

Spring 2005 postgraduate course and exercise class Introduction to Dynamical Sys-tems; undergraduate course and exercise class in Quantum Theory

Fall 2004 two exercise classes in Probability 1

Technical University Dresden

WS 2001/2002 postgraduate course Deterministic Chaos and Nonequilibrium StatisticalMechanics

Max Planck Inst. for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

SS 2000 postgraduate course Statistical Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Systems

Technical University Berlin

SS 1992 postgraduate tutorial Quantum Mechanics

WS 1991/92 postgraduate tutorial in Classical Mechanics

SS 1991 postgraduate tutorial in Electrodynamics

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WS 1990/91 undergraduate tutorial in Advanced Calculus for Physicists

SS 1990 undergraduate tutorial in Advanced Calculus for Civil Engineers

WS 1989b/90 undergraduate tutorial in Advanced Calculus for Electrical Engineers

Sept.-Oct. 1989 4-week course for beginners Introduction to Advanced Calculus

See also my popular science talks, Section Research activities, and my administrative duties,Section Scientific organizations.My teaching is typically rated by students with marks between 4 and 5 out of 5, both on an-nual School-internal student questionnaires and on the web (cf., e.g., www.ratemyprofessors.com).

Head of research groups

2015 MPIPKS Dresden: 6-months Advanced Study Group on Statistical physicsand anomalous dynamics of foraging, 5 team members, 1 project student, 25visitors

2004ff QMUL London: 2 postdocs (1 self-funded from ETH Zürich), 3 PhD stu-dents (1 self-funded, 2 awarding QMUL PhD scholarships), 14 masters stu-dents (2 awarding 3 prizes for their theses works), 1 project student, 1 trainee

2001–2004 MPIPKS Dresden: 2 postdocs, 1 PhD student (official member of the juryfor the PhD viva at the TU Dresden), 1 trainee (publishing 1 paper)

1997–2001 ULB Brussels: 1 postdoc, 1 PhD student (official member of the jury forthe PhD viva)

Research activities

Invited conference talks (many declined)

April 2018 plenary talk at the conference on Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology,and Evolution, University of Leicester, UK

Oct. 2017 workshop on Multiple scale analysis and modeling of collective migration in bi-ological systems, ZIF Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Biele-feld, Germany

Sept. 2017 workshop on Current status and future directions of Lévy walk research, TheCompany of Biologists, Wiston House, Wilton Park, Sussex, UK

Sept. 2017 30th Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, Krakow, Poland

July 2017 International Seminar on Climate Fluctuations and Non-equilibrium StatisticalMechanics: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, MPIPKS Dresden, Germany

Nov. 2016 workshop on Fractional calculus, probability and non-local operators: appli-cations and recent developments, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics,Bilbao, Spain

Aug. 2016 two talks at the programme on Nonequilibrium processes at the nanoscale,Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China, Beijing

June 2016 workshop on Probability, Non-Local Operators and Applications, Departmentof Mathematics, University of Sussex

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May 2016 SFB910-Symposium on Non-Markovian transport in classical and quantumsystems, TU Berlin

May 2016 WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Quantifying complex transport with Lévy walks: fromcold atoms to humans and robots, Bad Honnef, Germany

March 2016 workshop on Stochastic Modelling of Transport Processes in Biology, Manch-ester, UK

Sept. 2015 symposium on Fluctuation driven phenomena in non-equilibrium statisticalmechanics, Warwick, UK

Aug. 2015 plenary talk at the conference Diffusion Fundamentals VI, Dresden

Sept. 2014 workshop on Theory and Applications of Random/Non-autonomous DynamicalSystems, Imperial College, UK

Nov. 2013 International Programme on Mathematics for the Fluid Earth, Isaac NewtonInstitute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK

Oct. 2013 International workshop on Small systems far from equilibrium: Order, correla-tions, and fluctuations, MPIPKS Dresden

Aug. 2012 International Summer Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Me-chanics of Complex Systems 2012, CRP Lavin, Engadina, Switzerland

May 2012 workshop on Aggregation, Inference and Rare Events in the Natural and Socio-Economic Sciences, Warwick, UK

Apr. 2012 conference on Open Dynamical Systems: Ergodic Theory, Probabilistic Meth-ods and Applications, Banff, Alberta, Canada

March 2012 scientific meeting of the Saxonian DFG Research group From local constraintsto macroscopic transport, Chemnitz, Germany

Aug. 2011 conference on Nonequilibrium processes: the last 40 years and the future,Obergurgl, Austria

May 2011 conference on Chaos, Complexity and Transport, Marseille, France (plenaryspeaker)

Sept. 2010 keynote speaker at the conference on Anomalous Transport: from Billiards toNanosystems, Sperlonga, Italy (three lectures)

Dec. 2009 symposium on Chaos, Scattering, and Statistical Mechanics, Brussels, Belgium

Sept. 2009 keynote speaker at the workshop Pseudochaos and stable-chaos in statisticalmechanics and quantum physics, Trieste, Italy (two lectures)

Nov. 2008 Workshop on Molecular Dynamics, Thermostats and Convergence to Equilib-rium, Edinburgh,UK

Sept. 2008 Dynamics Days Asia-Pacific, Nara, Japan

June 2008 workshop on Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, ESI, Vienna

March 2008 workshop on Chaos: Theory and Experiment, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan,Israel

March 2008 workshop on Modeling anomalous diffusion and relaxation: from singlemolecules to the flight of the albatross?, Institute for Advanced Studies, He-brew University, Jerusalem

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Jan. 2008 International Winter Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Me-chanics of Complex Systems, CRP Lavin, Engadina, Switzerland

Oct. 2007 trimester/workshop on Statistical Physics of Systems out of Equilibrium, In-stitut Henri Poincaré, Paris

July 2006 international symposium on Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics,Durham, UK

June 2006 16. Workshop on Lattice Field Theory and Statistical Physics, Coventry, UK

March 2005 conference on Nonlinearity, fluctuations, and complexity, Université Libre deBruxelles

Aug. 2004 workshop on Stochastic and Deterministic Dynamics in Equilibrium andNonequilibrium Systems, ESI, Vienna

July 2004 workshop on Stability, Fluctuations and Transient Behaviour in NonequilibriumSystems, CECAM, Lyon

May 2004 meeting on Quantum Chaos and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Tech-nion, Haifa

May 2003 INTAS03 meeting and mini-symposium on anomalous dynamical processes,Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen

June 1999 NATO conference Nonlinear Science: Dynamics and Stochasticity, Brussels

Feb. 1999 workshop Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, Vienna

July 1998 conference Probabilistic and Thermodynamic Aspects of Nonlinear Dynamics,Brussels

March 1998 workshop Disordered Dynamical Systems, MPIPKS Dresden

Sept. 1997 workshop and summer school Chaos and Irreversibility, Budapest

Additionally, 48 contributed talks at international conferences.

Colloquia

May 2016 Department for Innovative Methods of Computing, ZIH, Dresden Universityof Technology (Prof. Deutsch)

April 2016 Department of Physics, Dresden University of Technology (Prof. Ketzmerick)

Oct. 2015 Department of Physics, University of Osnabrueck (Prof. Maass)

Oct. 2013 INI Colloquium Series at the Institute for Neuroinformatics, University ofZurich and ETH Zurich (Prof. Stoop)

May 2013 joint Colloquium at the Institute for Theoretical Electrical Engineering (Prof.Mathis) and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (Prof. Werner), Universityof Hanover

Nov. 2012 Colloquium on Complex and Biological Systems, University of Potsdam (Profs.Metzler and Beta)

Dec. 2011 Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Berlin (Prof. Stark)

March 2011 Institute of Laser Physics, University of Hamburg (Prof. Schmelcher)

Dec. 2006 Department of Physics, TU Leipzig (Prof. Kärger)

May 2002 Department of Physics, TU Dresden (Prof. Fulde)

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June 2001 Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Dresden (Prof. Bahr)

Dec. 2000 Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin (Prof. Vogl)

Invited seminar talks

Nov. 2015 Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Seminar, Mathematics Institute, Uni-versity of Warwick

Dec. 2014 Centre of Complexity Science, Imperial College London (Dr. Evans)

July 2014 MPIPKS Dresden (Dr. Friedrich)

April 2014 MPIPKS Dresden (Prof. Kantz)

Dec. 2013 Dynamical Systems Group, Imperial College London (Dr. Rasmussen)

Nov. 2013 2 talks at the International programme on Mathematics for the Fluid Earth,Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK

April 2013 MPIPKS Dresden (Dr. Altmann, Dr. Zaburdaev)

Nov. 2012 Department of Applied Mathematics, Open University, Milton Keynes

University of Potsdam (Profs. Metzler and Beta)

May 2012 Institute for Theoretical Physics, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin (Prof. Lindner)

April 2012 Complexity Science Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Universityof Calgary (Prof. Davidsen)

Nov. 2011 University of Nottingham, School of Mathematical Sciences (Prof. Tanner)

March 2011 Institute of Laser Physics, University of Hamburg (Prof. Schmelcher)

Jan. 2011 City University London, Centre for Mathematical Science (Prof. Frings)

Dec. 2010 University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy (Prof. Ren-zoni)

Nov. 2010 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig (Dr. Ro-drigues/Prof. Jost)

Sept. 2010 Université Jean le Rond d’Alembert, UPMC and CNRS, Paris (Dr. Michelitsch)

June 2010 University of Potsdam (Prof. Beta)

March 2010 CNRS, Meudon, France

Oct. 2009 Department of Mathematics, University of Portsmouth, UK (Dr. Hennig)

June 2009 School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter, UK

April 2009 MPIPKS Dresden (Prof. Kantz)

Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig (Prof. Kroy)

Sept. 2008 Waseda University, Tokyo (Prof. Tasaki)

May 2008 Universite Libre de Bruxelles

1992–2008 seven talks at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Berlin (Profs. Stark,Hess, Schöll)

June 2007 MPIPKS Dresden (Dr. Lindner, Prof. Jülicher)

Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig (Prof. Janke)

Sept. 2006 MPIPKS Dresden (Prof. Kantz)

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1999–2006 three talks at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Humboldt University Berlin(Profs. Sokolov/Ebeling/Schimansky-Geier)

March 2006 Natural Complexity Project, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge

Nov. 2005 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Surrey, Guildford

Oct. 2005 Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol (Dr. Dettmann, Dr. Sieber)

Sep. 2005 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Dr. Olbrich)

MPIPKS Dresden (Prof. Kantz)

Universite Libre de Bruxelles

July 2005 Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield (Dr.Michelitsch)

June 2005 two talks at the Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid(Prof. Velarde)

Oct. 2004 Department of Applied Mathematics, Open University, Milton Keynes (Prof.Wilkinson)

Jan. 2004 Institute for Theoretical Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Prof. Eck-hardt)

Nov. 2003 Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Chemnitz (Prof. Schreiber)

Aug. 2003 Department of Mathematics, Queen Mary University, London (Profs. Beck,Arrowsmith)

Feb. 2001 Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Brussels (Prof. Nico-lis)

March 2000 Maryland Chaos Group, College Park

Institute for Physical Science and Technology, College Park (Prof. Dorfman)

Georgetown University (Prof. Urbach)

University of Rochester (Prof. Dellago)

Nov. 1999 Bayer AG, Department of Mathematical Process Engineering, Leverkusen

Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht (Prof. van Beijeren)

Oct. 1999 Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching (Prof. Wagner)

July 1999 Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, Potsdam (Prof. Kurths)

Sept. 1996 Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Kiel (Prof. Radons)

Additionally, 22 further international seminar talks.

Invited stays and participations

July/Aug. 2016 3-week stay at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China, Beijing

June/July 2014 3-week stay at the MPIPKS Dresden (Dr. Friedrich, Prof. Kantz)

April 2014 3-week stay at the MPIPKS Dresden (Dr. Watkins, Prof. Kantz)

Oct./Nov. 2013 4-week stay at the Newton Institute, Cambridge (Visiting Research Fellow ofInternational programme Mathematics for the Fluid Earth)

April 2009 2-week stay at the MPIPKS Dresden (Prof. Kantz)

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Feb. 2008 2-day Physics and Life Science Interface workshop, University of Warwick, UK(upon invitation only)

2007 two 1-week stays at the MPIPKS Dresden (Profs. Kantz, Jülicher)

2006 two 1-week stays at the MPIPKS Dresden (Prof. Fulde)

May 2005 1-week stay at the Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense deMadrid (Prof. Velarde)

Feb. 2001 1-week stay at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Prof. Nicolis)

March 2000 1 1/2-week stay at the IPST, University of Maryland, USA (Prof. Dorfman)

Nov. 1999 1-week stay at the University of Utrecht (Prof. van Beijeren)

Jan. 1997 4-week stay at the TU Berlin (Prof. Hess)

Sept. 1996 1-week stay at the Eötvös University, Budapest (Prof. Tél)

1994/95 three 3-week stays at the IPST, USA (Prof. Dorfman)

April 1994 short stay at the University of Utrecht (Profs. Ernst and Dorfman)

Outreach activities, others

March 2017 taster lecture of Dynamical Systems masters level course for UG students atQMUL

Nov. 2014 PhD supervisor training course for staff members at QMUL

2012-14 3 induction courses for new PhD students

Nov. 2013 PhD supervisor training course for staff members at QMUL

June 2012 taster course for pupils at QMUL

April 2012 taster course for pupils at QMUL

June 2008 teacher’s talk at QMUL

2003/2004 three pupil’s talks at the MPIPKS Dresden

June 2003 presentation of a computer simulation during the Long Night of the Sciences,MPIPKS Dresden

March 2003 invited teacher’s talk at the DPG Spring Meeting, Dresden

Dec. 2002 pupil’s talk at the Heisenberg high school, Riesa

June 2001 talk during the Open Doors Day at the MPIPKS Dresden

Assessment and refereeing activitiesIn 2012/13 I was external assessor for a new 1-year course on Mathematical Methods forphysicists at the Open University (Milton Keynes, UK). I wrote 15 reports assessing approx. 800pages of course material for helping to develop this new module. I had to decline two offersto become external examiner for undergraduate courses at the University of Surrey and at theOpen University in 2012 and 2013. So far I have examined 6 PhD theses (2 own candidates inBelgium and Germany, 4 external candidates from Australia, Italy, Germany and the UK).

referee of: (in alphabetical order; for the most refereed journals/publishing companies/researchorganizations please find the number of my reports in brackets)

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Alexandria Eng. J., American J. Phys., Australian Research Council (5), Biophys. J., Bull. Math.Biol., Cambridge University Press, Can. J. Phys., Chaos (7), Chaos, Solitons, Fractals, Chem. Phys.Lett., Comm. Math. Phys., Comm. Nonlin. Sci. Num. Simul., Comp. Phys. Commun., Comp. Sci.Eng., CRC Press, EPSRC (Eng. and Phys. Sci. Research Council, UK) (28), Europ. J. Phys.,Europ. Phys. J. B (5), Europhys. Lett. (6), Fractals (6), Int. J. Theor. Phys., J. Chem. Phys.(18), J. Phys. A (32), J. Phys. Cond. Mat. (5), J. Math. Phys., J. Phys. Chem., J. Phys. D,JStat (15), J. Stat. Phys. (9), Leverhulme Trust UK, Math. Meth. Appl. Sci., Math. Mod. Nat.Phen., Mathematical Reviews, Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., Molec. Simul., Nanotechnol-ogy, NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) (2), New J. Phys. (5), Nonlinearity (7), Phil.Trans. A, Physica A (12), Physica D (12), Phys. Rev. B, Phys. Rev. E (43), Phys. Rev. Lett. (126),Phys. Lett. A (5), Royal Society Interface, Physica Scripta (3), Physica Status Solidi (7), QMULmasters theses (21), Scientific Reports, Wiley-VCH, Zentralblatt Mathematik

In total around than 500 reports up to now with currently about 60 reports/year.

Other qualifications

Rankings in job applications

May 2008 ranked second for a Professorship at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Sept. 2005 ranked second for a Professorship at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Oct. 2004 ranked first for a 5-year Lecturership at QMUL

Aug. 2004 ranked second for a permanent Lecturership at QMUL

Academic memberships

since 2011 member of the London Mathematical Society

since 1988 member of the German Physical Society

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Scientific CareerMy scientific activities started at the age of 15 when I participated at the German Young Sci-entist’s Competition Jugend forscht. For this pupil’s competition I designed and carried out myown research projects, the results were presented in a report and on a poster. By participatingover five years I was awarded a 2nd place and a special prize in physics, a 3rd place in biologyand another special prize in mathematics/computer science. As I was the first academic in myfamily I had no guidance to do any research. At an early age I thus trained myself to think andwork scientifically. For me this was natural whereas most students struggle, as I learned later onby advising students myself.Studying both physics and philosophy I became interested in the kinetic theory of gases, a branchof nonequilibrium statistical physics. In my diploma thesis with Prof. S.Hess at the TU Berlin Iimproved analytical solutions of the Boltzmann equation for calculating transport coefficients. Thisinvolved the simulation of nonlinear two-particle scattering processes on a CRAY supercomputer. Idiscovered that microscopic nonlinearities can have a significant impact on statistical physical trans-port processes, which motivated me to learn more about nonlinear dynamics. However, there wasnobody at my home university doing research on nonlinear dynamical systems. I thus successfullyapplied for a DAAD scholarship for acquiring this knowledge at the University of Maryland, USA.There I teamed up with Prof. J.R.Dorfman, who came back from seven years of administration todo research again, and jointly we worked ourselves into the field of dynamical systems. My PhDthesis, funded by a scholarship of the government of Berlin, was groundbreaking: For diffusion ona one-dimensional periodic lattice, modelled by a simple deterministic map generalizing a randomwalk on the line, I was able to exactly calculate the diffusion coefficient by methods of dynamicalsystems theory. This diffusion coefficient was found to be fractal function of the couplingstrength of the single elements of the periodic network, a result that was published as aPRL in 1995. My very first publication was reviewed in at least four major textbooks, my amendedPhD thesis, also well cited, was published as a booklet in 1996.In order to visit scientists working at the forefront of the newly emerging field of nonequilibriumstatistical mechanics and nonlinear dynamics (Prof. J.R.Dorfman, Maryland, Prof. T.Tél, Budapest,and Profs. P.Gaspard and G.Nicolis, Brussels) I was awarded three postdoctoral fellowships from theGerman DFG between 1996 and 1999. In Brussels, after a very succesful project on deterministicreaction-diffusion on a one-dimensional periodic lattice, and being a second year postdoc, Istarted my first research group consisting of a PhD student and another postdoc. Our goal wasto check a claimed universality of relations between transport properties and dynamicalsystems quantities for dissipative non-Hamiltonian systems under nonequilibrium conditions. Aparadigmatic model that we studied featured transport on a two-dimensional periodic lattice. Byconstructing counterexamples we showed a limited validity of these equations, leading to a PRLand another article.In 2000 I was awarded a three-year Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Max PlanckInstitute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS) in Dresden (prolonged for another year).Here I built up my second research group consisting of two postdocs, a PhD student and a trainee.The 3-month undergraduate project led to a publication (2003). One goal was to bring fractaltransport coefficients to experimental reality. For this purpose we introduced the bouncing ballbilliard, a simple model for granular transport on vibratory conveyors as they are commonly usedin engineering (2004). We also wanted to know what happened to parameter dependent transport

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coefficients under bifurcations, for which we studied a time-discrete version of the driven nonlinearpendulum. The idea underlying both models was again to study the impact of nonlinearities ondiffusion in periodic lattices as a sub-class of more general networks. The answer was a fractalstructure of parameter regions exhibiting normal and anomalous diffusion, where themean square displacement was growing linearly or nonlinearly in time, respectively (PRL, 2002). In2001 I got invited to organize a Minisymposium on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics for theDynamics Days Europe. Together with Profs. P.Gaspard, Belgium, H. van Beijeren, Netherlands,and J.R.Dorfman, USA, I was then awarded full funding from the MPIPKS Dresden to organize theInternational Workshop and Seminar on Microscopic Chaos and Transport in Many-ParticleSystems (3 weeks in August 2002 with 80 participants), which surveyed the state of the art inthe field of chaos and transport. Key results got published in a Special Issue of Physica D, forwhich I was serving as a guest editor (2004). In July 2004 I performed my Habilitation at the TUDresden for which I wrote and defended a 300-page thesis.Immediately after my habilitation I started on a fixed-term Lecturership at the Queen Mary Uni-versity of London (QMUL) by moving into a mathematics environment. I completed my probationafter two years instead of three, and after 2 1/2 years my post was made permanent. In 2005 I wasawarded full financial funding from the German Heraeus foundation for organizing the Interna-tional Conference on Anomalous Transport: Experimental Results and Theoretical Challenges (4days in July 2006 with 80 participants), together with Profs. G.Radons, Chemnitz, and I.M.Sokolov,Berlin. This highly interdisciplinary meeting brought together the fields of stochastic theory, non-linear dynamics and disordered systems. It was so successful that subsequently a monograph onAnomalous Transport was edited by us organizers. This book became a classic in this field after itspublication in 2008 and is widely cited. In Fall 2006 I was awarded a large grant by the BritishEPSRC, which enabled me to start my third research group by hiring a postdoc and partiallyfunding myself. The project was focused on relations between chaos and transport in anomalousdynamics, and on fluctuation relations. In Summer 2007 I published a 456 page monograph onMicroscopic chaos, fractals and transport in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. It was listedas a ‘Bestseller in Nonlinear Science’ in Fall 2007 and Spring 2008, labeled as a ‘Classic Title inNonlinear Science’ by the publisher in Fall 2010, highly appreciated in a number of reviews andsold widely.About ten years ago I started to apply my research on diffusion, statistical physics and nonlineardynamics to the biosciences. The first result of this endeavour was a widely cited article publishedin PNAS in 2008. It reports highly interdisciplinary research on understanding biological cellmigration. Our article revealed the existence of anomalous dynamics in cell migration andwas selected as essential research for the Nature cell migration gateway. Currently we extendthis line of research towards an experimental verification of so-called fluctuation relations forcell migration, which generalize the Second Law of thermodynamics to small complex systems.Another biophysical project aimed at understanding bumblebee flights. Here we analyzedexperimental data of bumblebees foraging under predation risk caused by artificial spiders in alaboratory experiments and developed a stochastic model for the dynamics. Our first article,published in PRL, was highlighted as an Editor’s Choice and by a Synopsis in the APS Physicsjournal. It received extensive international press coverage.In Summer 2011 I organized together with Profs. E.Barkai (Bar-Ilan, Israel), H.Kantz (Dresden) andDr. R.Zweimüller (Surrey, UK) a 3-week conference on Weak Chaos, Infinite Ergodic Theory, andAnomalous Dynamics (90 participants), for which we awarded funding from the MPIPKS Dresdenas well as from the Office of Naval Research, USA. This highly interdisciplinary conference aimed

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at bringing together mathematicians and physicists.In 2010 I was awarded a prestigious Outstanding Referee Award from the American PhysicalSociety and was selected as a member of the British EPSRC Peer Review College. In November2011 I got promoted by QMUL to Reader in Applied Mathematics (cf. associate professor).From 2012 to 2015 I served as the Director of Postgraduate Research Studies at the School ofMathematical Sciences. I was responsible for the School’s PhD programme consisting of more than50 PhD students and 50 staff members. I became member of various academic committeesboth on School and College level. These profound administrative responsibilities slowed down myresearch, together with the fact that in the UK heading a large group of PhD students and postdocsgenerating a large output of publications is rather untypical in mathematics. A particular honourwas the invitation by the American Physical Society to become Divisional Associate Editorfor Physical Review Letters in December 2013. Their letter stated: ‘The APS Division ofCondensed Matter Physics and the Topical Group for Statistical and Nonlinear Physics have giventheir endorsement to ask you to serve. (...) Your expertise in nonequilibrium statistical physicswith applications to biology and other fields as well as in dynamical systems, chaos, and complexitywould be, we thought, a considerable asset for our Board.’ In June 2014 I got invited to serve on aprioritisation panel of the EPSRC deciding about £19,000,000 of grant money applications, inSeptember 2016 I participated as a co-chair at another EPSRC panel deciding about £12,000,000.I now keep getting invitations to join various international scientific committees.Another big success was the award of funding for an Advanced Study Group by the Max PlanckSociety. From July to December 2015 I was leading a team of 5 scientists from Mexico, Spain, theUkraine and the UK, plus a 6-months project student and an associated external member. Thelatter two were funded by a grant from the Office of Naval Research Global (USA/UK) on which Iwas co-investigator. For 6 months we were working on the Statistical Physics and AnomalousDynamics of Foraging at the MPIPKS Dresden. Our activities were supported by the invitation of20 guest scientists and featured two focus weeks. Until June 2016 I stayed at MPIPKS for another6 months as a guest scientist to work on many follow-up projects. These research activities havebeen recharging my research batteries, and my approximately 10 ongoing projects will lead to manyhigh calibre publications in 2017.

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Statement of Research Interests: Nonequilibrium statis-tical physics of small complex systems

My field of research is defined by a blending of ideas and techniques from nonequilibrium sta-tistical physics, nonlinear dynamics the theory of stochastic processes and computationalphysics with applications to nanoscience and biology. This interdisciplinary combination ofdifferent approaches amends traditional statistical physics, which is an expedient tool for copingeffectively with the presence of many degrees of freedom by applying probabilistic concepts. Fora long time statistical mechanics focused on high-dimensional “large systems” consisting of manyparticles, such as fluids and crystalline solids at or near equilibrium. Only over the past few decadesit was realized that small systems involving only few particles, or variables, exhibit as well com-plexity in form of chaotic dynamics, bifurcations and fractal geometry characterized by sensitivedependence on initial conditions and parameters, and by random-looking evolution in time andspace reminiscent of many-particle systems. Such systems can be viewed as a ’laboratory’ in whichquestions that for a long time remained unsolved in statistical mechanics, such as the origin ofBrownian motion, linear response and irreversibility, can be raised on a new basis and brought totheir solution.Since nonlinearities are ubiquitous at the level of the microscopic dynamics of single entities theyshould determine to a large extent macroscopic-level behavior, from the functional form of probabil-ity distributions and values of transport coefficients in abstract mathematical models to moleculardiffusion in nanopores and the migration of biological cells. That way, the very origin of transportand irreversibility can be intimately related to the intrinsic complexity due to nonlinear interactionsbetween the individual components forming a macroscopic system. This poses the challenge tomodern statistical mechanics of explaining macroscopic properties of matter starting from micro-scopic chaos in the equations of motion of many-particle systems.The interplay between chaos and complexity becomes particularly interesting if the nonlinear inter-actions between the microscopic ingredients generate non-Markovian memory in the dynamics. Forsystems under nonequilibrium conditions such as external fields or concentration gradients theselong-range dynamical correlations in the microscopic equations of motion can lead to unexpectedtransport phenomena on macroscopic scales. One important example is single-particle transportin nonlinear periodic lattices. For a number of different models it was shown theoretically that thecorresponding transport coefficients are fractal functions of control parameters. Similar irregularparameter dependencies have been observed in experiments on electronic transport in antidot lat-tices and in the phase diffusion of Josephson junctions. A second fundamental class of correlatedtransport phenomena emerged in the rapidly evolving field of anomalous dynamics. Here the mi-croscopic correlations decay so slowly in time that often not even a nonequilibrium steady stateis attained. This leads to an anomalously diffusive spreading of ensembles of particles, which incontrast to ordinary Brownian motion is characterized by mean square displacements that do notgrow linearly in time. Such dynamics has recently been observed in the migration of biological cellsand in the foraging behavior of insects and animals.The figure on the next page displays key elements of this theory by schematically relating themto each other, guided by the structure of the well-established equilibrium physics of many-particlesystems. The three different columns should be understood as follows: A rigorous mathematicalfoundation of equilibrium statistical mechanics relies on Boltzmann’s ergodic hypothesis, whichenables one to combine the laws of mechanics with concepts from probability theory. By using

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Gibbs ensembles fundamental principles of equilibrium statistical mechanics can be derived, whichpaves the way for the description of a wide variety of systems in terms of equilibrium thermodynamicproperties. Ideally, one wishes to carry out a similar programme for nonequilibrium statisticalphysics. However, typically a system is driven in a nonequilibrium situation by external forces, whichmakes the dynamics very different from the equilibrium setting. I believe it is fair to say that upto now there does not exist a generally accepted theory capturing the big variety of nonequilibriumsteady states. The theory that I wish to put forward with my research is rather unconventional fromthe point of view of traditional equilibrium statistical physics. It suggests that microscopic nonlinearequations of motion for statistical non-interacting many-particle systems of few degrees of freedomcan already generate complexity, whereas typically complexity is associated with the probabilisticproperties of strongly interacting many-particle systems exploring a high-dimensional phase space.My approach thus favours a starting point that not only requires ergodicity but also some typeof microscopic chaos. In the strongly nonlinear situation where there is a Ljapunov dynamicalinstability this is expressed by the chaotic hypothesis of Gallavotti and Cohen, which was proposedprecisely in order to generalize Boltzmann’s ergodic hypothesis to nonequilibrium physics. Byformulating the assumption that reversible many-particle systems in stationary states have “nice”mathematical properties similar to low-dimensional chaotic dynamics, the chaotic hypothesis impliesthe existence of fractal SRB measures, which in turn are ideally suited for calculating macroscopictransport properties by projections onto unstable manifolds.

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Conceptual foundations of a theory of nonequilibrium statistical physics that starts from microscopic

chaos in comparison to the equilibrium physics of many-particle systems.

These intricate connections between strong microscopic chaos, the complexity of fractal SRB mea-sures and transport in nonequilibrium steady states form the basis for what I call correlatedtransport. How this phenomenon emerges is demonstrated by mathematical proofs of funda-mental principles of nonequilibrium thermodynamics like Ohm’s law of linear response. Startingfrom first principles one must assess the topological stability of SRB measures under parametervariation. If this topology is unstable a fractal parameter dependence of transport coefficients isthe consequence. Another crucial finding were formulas expressing transport coefficients in termsof dynamical systems quantities. Interestingly, it can be shown that the recently discovered muchcelebrated nonequilibrium fluctuation relations yield relationships that are formally very similar tothese equations: Both sets of formulas express macroscopic observables as a difference between two

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statistical large deviation quantities. Such “balance equations” establishing explicit relationshipsbetween microscopic reversible dynamics and macroscopic irreversible quantities seem to form abackbone of all presently available theories of nonequilibrium statistical physics which start frommicroscopic deterministic chaos.This presents an ideal scenario as it currently emerges for transport in nonequilibrium steadystates. The situation is much less clear for dynamical systems that are not strongly chaotic.Ongoing research reveals that there exists a wide variety of systems to which this problem indeedapplies. These systems are said to be weakly chaotic thus violating the chaotic hypothesis, and weencounter the phenomenon of anomalous transport. Often the relaxation in these systems is soslow that they do not even reach steady states, a property called ageing. There may furthermorebe a violation of the equality between time ensemble average called weak ergodicity breaking. Notmuch is known about the nonequilibrium measures characterizing anomalous transport processes,except that they may be non-integrable. In deterministic dynamical systems they must provide themathematical setting for generating non-Gaussian Lévy-type distributions, which are ubiquituousin the much better developed stochastic theory of anomalous transport. This reasoning suggeststhat in order to be viable for anomalous transport, the concept of microscopic chaos underlyingnonequilibrium processes has to be significantly modified. Exemplifying the reasoning captured bythe above diagram, my future research will target the following three main lines of research:1. Microscopic chaos and diffusion (see my monograph from 2007): My study of diffusiongenerated by simple deterministic random walks on the line and in Hamiltonian particle billiardsshould be continued towards more realistic models that can directly be tested in experiments.These will be Hamiltonian periodic lattices equipped with smooth potentials. Such systems modeldiffusion of electrons in artificial graphene as well as molecular diffusion in nanopores. A maintool to study these systems will be nonequilibrium molecular dynamics computer simulations incombination with analytical approximations obtained from stochastic theory.2. Anomalous transport (two edited books from 2008 and 2013): I am very interested tocross-link the two so far rather different fields of anomalous transport and fluctuation relations,the latter generalising the second law of thermodynamics to small systems very far from equilib-rium. They were found to hold for a big variety of small systems exhibiting normal transport.Their claimed universality can be challenged by studying more non-trivial, non-Markovian and non-Gaussian stochastic models. This is important for experimental applications to glassy materialsand especially promising to understand active biological matter. Work on testing anomalous fluc-tuation relations for biological cell migration is currently about to be finished and will inspire futureresearch on assessing spatio-temporal fluctuations of biological matter.3. Biological dynamics (Advanced Study Group activity): My line of research on diffusion inbiological systems, which started with biological cell migration and was continued by studyingbumblebee flights, is now progressing within the larger framework of movement ecology. TheAdvanced Study Group that I was heading at MPIPKS Dresden in Fall 2015 was bringing togetherthe stochastic modeling of non-Markovian, correlated anomalous dynamics with data from newexperiments on foraging biological organisms. Our research was so successful that it spawneda large number of projects, ranging from the theoretical study of search efficiency in stochasticmodels like Lévy walks to analysing new data sets of organisms likle the worm C.elegans. There isa completely new field of biophysical research emerging here, which I am planning to very activelypush forward.

London, 2 August 2017

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