Hans Jürgen Herrmann

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Hans Jürgen Herrmann (born January 1, 1954 in Havana ) is a German physicist who deals with granular matter .

Herrmann grew up in Bogotá . From 1972 he studied physics at the University of Göttingen and the University of Cologne . He then worked as a post-doc in the USA ( Athens (Georgia) , Boston University ) and at the French nuclear research center in Saclay . He then worked at Forschungszentrum Jülich and, from 1994, at ESPCI in Paris before becoming director of the Center for Computational Physics at the University of Stuttgart . He is currently a professor at the Institute for Building Materials at ETH Zurich .

Herrmann studied the behavior of granular matter, for example of sand dunes, through computer simulation and comparison with the behavior in nature (for example on expeditions in Brazil, Morocco, he also examined sand dunes on Mars). For example, he demonstrated soliton- like behavior in sand dunes. He also worked on other applications of Self Organized Criticality (SOC), for example in the brain or in traffic simulation, dendrite growth , fracture mechanisms, bending of wires and cellular automata.

In 2002 he received a Max Planck Research Award , in 2005 he received the Gentner-Kastler Award . In 2006 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society , which awarded him its Aneesur Rahman Prize in 2018 .

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  1. ^ Veit Schwämmle, Hans J. Herrmann: Solitary wave behavior of sand dunes. In: Nature. Volume 426, December 11, 2003, pp. 619-620
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Hans Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana