Eberhard Bodenschatz

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Eberhard Bodenschatz (born April 22, 1959 in Rehau ) is a German physicist .

Life

Eberhard Bodenschatz studied physics and technical physics at the University of Bayreuth , where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1989 with the dissertation patterns and defects in the context of the weakly non-linear analysis of anisotropic structure-forming systems under Lorenz Kramer . This was followed by a two and a half year research stay at the University of California, Santa Barbara , with Guenter Ahlers . During this time he discovered gigantic spirals and the spiral defect chaos, which has since been considered a prototype for spatiotemporal chaos.

From 1992 to 2005 Eberhard Bodenschatz worked as a professor for experimental physics at Cornell University . In 2003 he became a part-time director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen , and since 2005 he has been full-time director and Adjunct Professor of Physics and Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University .

Since 2007 he has also been Professor of Physics at the University of Göttingen . He is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1993), Cottrell Scholar (1995) and Fellow of the American Physical Society (2003).

From 2008 to 2012 he was a member and from 2010 to 2011 Chair of the Advisory Board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Santa Barbara). From 2008 to 2011 he was on the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society . He is one of the founders and first chairman of the International Collaboration for Turbulence Research (2006) and was Vice Chair of the EU COST Action. MP0806 "Particles in Turbulence".

For 11 years until 2015, Bodenschatz was editor in chief of the New Journal of Physics , an open access journal jointly published by the German Physical Society and the Institute of Physics . He was editor of the "European Physical Journal H (Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics)" EPJH . and is a member of the Editorial Board of the "Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics"

In 2014 he received the Stanley Corrsin Award from the American Physical Society, and in 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from the École normal supérieure de Lyon . He is the coordinator of the EU infrastructure project "European High-Performance Infrastructures in Turbulence" with 26 partner institutions ( EuHIT ). Since 2016 he has been a member of the board of the German Physical Society.

From June 2012 to June 2014 he was deputy chairman of the section and since June 2014 he has been chairman of the “Chemical-Physico-Technical Section” of the Max Planck Society.

Bodenschatz works in the field of physics of complex self-organizing systems. Best known is his fundamental work in the field of turbulence research. His work on particle tracking in turbulent flows made it possible for the first time to check theoretical predictions by Richardson (1927), Heisenberg (1948), Yaglom (1949) and Batchelor (1950). His work laid the foundations in the area of Lagrangian turbulence, which is currently particularly heavily studied . Since his arrival in Göttingen in 2005, he has set up the Göttingen Turbulence Facility , in which he uses gases under high pressure to investigate the fundamental properties of strong turbulence. He conducts experiments on cloud physics on the Zugspitze at the virtual environmental research institute Schneefernerhaus . Details can be found in the video "Poetry of the Clouds" on Youtube.

He also works in the field of biophysics with a special focus on complex, self-organizing processes in the eukaryotic cell and in cell associations. He is also particularly concerned with malignant self-organizing cardiac fibrillation and its control.

In addition to his work as a scientist, he supports the Felix-Klein-Gymnasium in Göttingen, the first public international school in Lower Saxony, and he is a strong advocate of Open Access Publishing (see his articles in the UNESCO Open Access Handbook ).

Since 2016 he has been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 2020, Eberhard Bodenschatz was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Physics section .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
  2. ^ Cottrell Scholar ( Memento from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Eberhard Bodenschatz on the website of the University of Göttingen
  4. ↑ njp.org
  5. ^ EPJH homepage .
  6. ^ Stanley Corrsin Award from APS
  7. ↑ Entry at the ENS de Lyon
  8. ↑ Homepage: European High-Performance Infrastructures in Turbulence
  9. ↑ Chemical-Physical-Technical Section of the MPG
  10. ↑ Göttingen Turbulence Facility - EUHit Homepage
  11. ↑ Handbook Open Access . (PDF) UNESCO; Retrieved December 19, 2012
  12. ^ Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences: Prof. Dr. Eberhard Bodenschatz. Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, accessed on August 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bodenschatz, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehau