Jürgen Kurths - Curriculum vitae#
Born: March 11th, 1953 in Arendsee (Altmark), Germany
Family: married to Elke Kurths, born Baumgartnerl, children: Andreas und Anja Kurths
Education
- 1971-1975 University of Rostock, Diploma in Mathematics
- 1983 Dr.rer.nat. (PhD)
- 1991 Habilitation (Theoretical Physics)
Positions
- 1975-1983 Scientist, Central Institute for Solar-Terrestrical Physics, Academy of Sciences
- 1984-1990 Scientist, Central Institute for Astrophysics, Academy of Sciences
- 1990-1991 Project leader at the Central Institute for Astrophysics
- 1991-1996 Director of the working group „Nonlinear Dynamics“ of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- since 1994 Director of the Interdisciplinary Center Dynamics of Complex Systems at the University Potsdam
- since 1994 Full Professor (C4) for Theoretical Physics/Nonlinear Dynamics at University Potsdam
- 1996-1999 Dean of the Faculty for Mathematics and Science
- since 1998 Vicespeaker of Sonderforschungsbereiches 555 "Complex Nonlinear Processes" (German Research Society)
- since 1999 Member of Fraunhofer-Society
- since 2000 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2000-2005 President of Section Nonlinear Processes in Geoscience of the European Geoscience Union
- 2000-2004 Coordinator EU Network “Control, Synchronization and Characterization of Spatially Extended Nonlinear Systems”
- 2001-2007 Co-coordinator of Schwerpunktprogramm 1114 Time Series Analysis and Image Processing (German Research Society)
- 2002-2006 Speaker of the Research Group “Conflicting Rules in Cognitive Science”
- 2005 Humboldt-CSIR research award
- 2005-2009 Member steering committee of the new Network of Excellence BIOSIM (EU)
Editorial Boards
- Int.Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
- Springer-Series Synergetics
- Int. Journal of Complex Systems Research
- CHAOS
- Nonlinear Processes in Geoscience (Executive Editor)
Visiting Professor in
- China
- Japan
- Spain
- India
Memberships
- Fellow of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
- Guest fellow of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Fellow of the American Physical Society