Eberhard Bodenschatz
Eberhard Bodenschatz ( born April 22, 1959 in Rehau ) is a German physicist.
Life and work
Eberhard Bodenschatz holds a degree in physics and technical physics at the University of Bayreuth, where he received his Ph.D. in 1989 in theoretical physics with the thesis patterns and defects in the framework of the weakly nonlinear analysis of anisotropic pattern-forming systems at Lorenz Kramer. There was a two and a half years of research at the University of California, Santa Barbara with Guenter Ahlers. During this time he discovered Gigantic spirals and spiral defect chaos that has since been regarded as a prototype for spatiotemporal chaos.
From 1992 to 2005 Eberhard Bodenschatz worked as a professor of experimental physics at Cornell University. In 2003 he became director in addition to office and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self -Organization in Göttingen, since 2005 he is at the same place a full-time Director and Adjunct Professor of Physics and Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University.
Since 2007 he is also professor of physics at the University of Göttingen. He is Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1993 ), Cottrell Scholar (1995) and Fellow of the American Physical Society ( 2003).
From 2008-2012 he was a member, and from 2010 - 2011 Chair of the Advisory Board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Santa Barbara ). From 2008-2011 he was a director of the Materials Research Society. He is a founder and first chairman of the International Collaboration for Turbulence Research (2006) and Vice Chair of the EU COST Action. MP0806 " Particles in turbulence".
Bodenschatz is Editor in Chief of the New Journal of Physics, an open access journal, published jointly by the German Physical Society and the Institute of Physics. He is a member of the editorial board of the " Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics" and editor of "European Physical Journal H ( Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics ) " EPJH.
Since June 2012, he is Deputy Chairman of the section " Chemistry, Physics and Technology Section " of the Max Planck Society.
Bodenschatz working in the field of physics of complex self-organizing systems. Best known are his fundamental work in the field of turbulence research. His work on particle-tracking in turbulent flows have allowed for the first time to check theoretical predictions of Richardson (1927 ), Heisenberg ( 1948), Yaglom (1949) and Batchelor (1950). His work laid the foundations of the currently processed particularly strong field of Lagrangian turbulence. Since his arrival in Göttingen in 2005, he has built the Göttingen Turbulence Facility, in which he uses gases under high pressures in order to investigate the fundamental properties of strong turbulence. Experiments on cloud physics, he performs on the Zugspitze at the virtual environment research institute Schneefernerhaus.
He also works in the field of biophysics with special focus on complex, self-organizing processes in the eukaryotic cell and cell aggregates. He also deals in particular with the malignant self-organized cardiac fibrillation and its control.
Besides his work as a scientist, he promotes the Felix-Klein -Gymnasium in Göttingen, the first public international school in Lower Saxony, and he is a strong supporter of Open Access Publishing (see his article in the UNESCO Open Access Handbook ).