Barbara Drossel

Barbara Drossel (born September 4, 1963 in Cologne ) is a German physicist . Since 2002 she has been professor for theoretical physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

She studied physics at the Technical University of Munich . There she completed her diploma (1989) and doctoral thesis on structure formation in open systems using the example of a forest fire model (1993) in Franz Schwabl's group . This was followed by several postdoc stays at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA , at the University of Manchester in England and the University of Tel Aviv . After completing her habilitation in 1999 on scale behavior in systems with disorder and in non-equilibrium systems , she has been professor for theoretical physics at the Institute for Solid State Physics at TU Darmstadt since February 2002.

Scientific work

In more than 130 articles she deals with the field of theory of complex systems . She is the spokesperson of the 2012 established DFG - Research Unit "Networks on networks: the interplay of structure and dynamics in extensive ecological networks".

Other activities

Barbara Drossel also deals with religious topics such as the compatibility of faith and science. To this end, she published the following works:

• What virtues does a good scientist need? Reflections between Faith and Science . Evangelical Academy Baden, Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-89674-570-5 .
• And Augustine trusted reason: Why science and belief are not opposites . Brunnen-Verlag, Gießen, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7655-2007-5 .
• Scientists speak of God . Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 2016, ISBN 978-3-7655-2046-4 .

Awards

• 2011: Bad Herrenalber Academy Award of the Evangelical Academy Baden eV

Web links

• Literature by and about Barbara Drossel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Working group website
• Barbara Drossel in the database of renowned scientists AcademiaNet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal details : appointments, appointments, appointments, elections. Physik Journal , January 1, 2003, accessed May 5, 2014 .  (PDF file)
2. ↑ List of ongoing research groups - detailed view FOR 1748. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft , July 24, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Science and Faith: Lecture by a female professor. (No longer available online.) October 8, 2010, archived from the original on May 5, 2014 ; Retrieved May 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.