Jürgen Kurths#
| Membership Number: | 2758 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/kurths |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Sixth Century Chair in Nonlinear Systems Biology at the University of Aberdeen
- Since 2008 Chair-Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics, Department of Physics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Chair of the Research Domain Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- 1994-2007 Chair-Professor of Theoretical Physics/Nonlinear Dynamics, Universitat Potsdam
- 1992-1996 Director of the working group , "Nonlinear Dynamics" of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- 1991 Habilitation (Theoretical Physics), Universität Rostock
- 1990-1991 Proj ect leader at the Institute for Astrophysics
- 1984-1990 Scientist, Central Institute for Astrophysics, Academy of Sciences, Potsdam
- 1983 Dr. rer.nat. (Ph.D)
- 1975-1983 Scientist, Central Institute for solar-terrestrial Physics, Academy of Sciences, Berlin (East Germany)
- 1975 Diploma in Mathematics, Universität Rostock
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical physics
Honours and Awards
- 2000 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2005 Humboldt Foundation award - CSIR Research Prize
- 2007 Calls for chairs at the Universities Aberdeen and Glasgow
- 2008 Bestowed with a Dr. h. c. Lobachevsky University Nizhny Novgorod
