Jürgen Kurths

Jürgen Kurths ( born March 11, 1953 in Arendsee ( Altmark) ) is a German physicist and mathematician. He is considered an expert in the field of analysis of complex systems and phase synchronization, including by methods of the theory of complex networks. He is the author of 500 scientific articles and eight books in the fields of climatology, time series analysis, physiology and engineering.

Kurth is head of the research field " Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods" at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ( PIK) and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Humboldt University in Berlin. He also holds a "Sixth Century Chair" at the Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology ( ICSMB ) at the University of Aberdeen.

Life

After studying mathematics at Rostock with a diploma degree in 1975 Kurth in 1983 received his doctorate at the Central Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in East Berlin. After that he was in Potsdam at the Central Institute for Astrophysics. 1990/91 and 1991 project manager he was there he received his habilitation in theoretical physics at the University of Rostock. In the following years, his research interests from the analysis of astrophysical time series converted to the theory of complex systems and nonlinear dynamics ( " chaos theory " ) and finally to Earth System Analysis. 1992 to 1996 he headed the working group Nonlinear Dynamics of the Max Planck Society and in 1994 he received a full professorship in Theoretical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Potsdam. He was also from 1996 to 1999 dean of mathematics and science faculty, a founding director of the Leibniz -Kolleg Potsdam. 1994 to 2008 he was also a founding director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Dynamics of Complex Systems. In 2008 he became Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Humboldt University Berlin and heads the trans-disciplinary concepts and methods in the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK ), where he drove forward in particular the application of the theory of complex networks in the Earth System. Since 2009 he also teaches at the University of Aberdeen.

Influence had his contributions to the study of the synchronization of complex systems, as well as to stochastic resonance noisy systems. He was from 2000 to 2005 chairman of Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Division of the European Geosciences Union ( EGU). In his work toward the first German -Brazilian Graduate College came into existence for the analysis of dynamic processes in complex networks, whose spokesman he is on the German side.

Kurth is co-editor of scientific journals CHAOS, Philosophical Trans Royal Soc. A, PLoS ONE, Europ. J. Physics ST, J. Nonlinear Science and Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics.

Prizes and awards

Jürgen Kurths is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the board of trustees and long the Fraunhofer Society. In 2005 he won the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India). Since 2010 he is also a member of the Academia Europaea and since 2012 the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Nizhny Novgorod and Saratov and is an honorary professor at Potsdam University and a visiting professor at Southeast University in Nanjing. In 2013 he received the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal.

Publications (selection )

  • " Quantitative Analysis of Heart Rate Variability ." Kurths, J; Voss, A; Saparin, P ( 1995). CHAOS 5: 88-94.
  • "Phase synchronization of chaotic oscillators ". Rosenblum, MG; Pikovsky, AS; Kurth, J. (1996). Physical Review 76 (11): 1804.
  • " Coherence resonance in a noise -driven excitable system". Pikovsky, AS; Kurth, J. (1997). Physical Review 78 (5): 775
  • "Heartbeat synchronized with ventilation". Shepherd, C; Rosenblum, MG; Kurths J; Abel, H. (1998). NATURE 392: 239-240.
  • " Synchronization: A Universal Concept in Nonlinear Sciences". Pikovsky, A; Rosenblum, M; Kurth, J ( Cambridge University Press, 2001).
  • "The synchronization of chaotic systems". Boccaletti, S; Kurths, J; Osipov, G; et al. (2002). Physics Reports 366 (1-2): 1
  • " Recurrence plots for the analysis of complex systems ". Marwan, N; Romano, MC; Thiel, M; Kurths J. (2007). Physics Reports 438 (5-6): 237
  • "The backbone of the climate network". Donges, JF; Zou, Y; Marwan N; Kurths J ( 2009). Euro Physics Letters 87, 48007
  • " Influence of paced maternal breathing on fetal - maternal heart rate coordination ". van Leeuwen, P; Geue, D; Thiel, M; Cysarz, D; Long, S; Romano, M; Wessel, N; Kurths, J and Gröne Meier, D ( 2009). PNAS 106, 13661-13666
  • "Evidence for a bimodal distribution in human communication ." Wu, Y; Zhou, C.; Xiao, J; Kurths, J; Schellnhuber, HJ (2010). PNAS 107 (44 ): 18803-18808
  • "How basin stability complements the linear -stability paradigm ". Menck, P; Heitzig J; Marwan, N; Kurths J ( 2013). Nature Physics 9, pp. 89-92
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