Jürgen Kurths

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Jürgen Kurths at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Jürgen Kurths (born March 11, 1953 in Arendsee (Altmark) ) is a German physicist and mathematician . He is considered an expert in the field of analysis of complex systems and phase synchronization, u. a. using methods from the theory of complex networks . He is the author of around 1000 scientific articles (as of December 2019) and eight books in the fields of climatology , time series analysis , physiology and engineering .

Together with Anders Levermann, Kurths heads the research department for complexity research at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). He is professor for theoretical physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He also holds a "Sixth Century Chair" at the Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology (ICSMB) at the University of Aberdeen . Clarivate Analytics counts him among the most cited researchers in his field.

Life

After studying mathematics in Rostock with a diploma in 1975, Kurths received his doctorate in 1983 at the Central Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in East Berlin. Then he was at the Central Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam . In 1990/91 he was project manager there and in 1991 he completed his habilitation in theoretical physics at the University of Rostock . In the following years his research interests changed from the analysis of astrophysical time series to the theory of complex systems and nonlinear dynamics (" chaos theory ") and finally to earth system analysis . From 1992 to 1996 he headed the working group Nonlinear Dynamics of the Max Planck Society and in 1994 he received a full professorship in Theoretical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Potsdam. There he was also Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences from 1996 to 1999 and he was the founding director of the Leibniz College in Potsdam. From 1994 to 2008 he was also founding director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Dynamics of Complex Systems . In 2008 he received a professorship for nonlinear dynamics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and heads the area of ​​transdisciplinary concepts and methods at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), where he particularly advanced the application of the theory of complex networks in earth system analysis. Since 2009 he has also taught at the University of Aberdeen .

His contributions to research into the synchronization of complex systems and the stochastic resonance of noisy systems had an impact. From 2000 to 2005 he was chairman of the Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The first German-Brazilian graduate college for the analysis of dynamic processes in complex networks came about as a result of his work, and he is the speaker on the German side.

Kurths is co-editor of the scientific journals CHAOS, Philosophical Trans. Royal Soc. A, PLoS ONE, Europ. J. Physics ST, J. Nonlinear Science and Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics.

Prizes and awards

Jürgen Kurths is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's Board of Trustees for a long time . In 2005 he won the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India). He has also been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2010 and of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2012. He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Nizhny Novgorod and Saratov and is honorary professor at the University of Potsdam and visiting professor at Southeast University in Nanjing . In 2013 he received the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal .

Publications (selection)

  • "Quantitative Analysis of Heart Rate Variability". Kurths, J ; Voss, A; Saparin, P (1995). CHAOS 5: 88-94.
  • "Phase synchronization of chaotic oscillators". Rosenblum, MG; Pikovsky, AS; Kurths, J (1996). Physical Review 76 (11): 1804.
  • "Coherence resonance in a noise-driven excitable system". Pikovsky, AS; Kurths, J (1997). Physical Review 78 (5): 775.
  • "Heartbeat synchronized with ventilation". Schäfer, C; Rosenblum, MG; Kurths J ; Abel, H (1998). NATURE 392: 239-240.
  • "Synchronization: A Universal Concept in Nonlinear Sciences". Pikovsky, A; Rosenblum, M; Kurths, J (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
  • "The synchronization of chaotic systems". Boccaletti, S; Kurths, J ; Osipov, G; et al. (2002). Physics Reports 366 (1-2): 1.
  • "Universality in the Synchronization of Weighted Random Networks". Zhou, CS; Motter, AE; Kurths, J (2006). Phys. Rev. Lett 96 (3): 034101.
  • "Recurrence plots for the analysis of complex systems". Marwan, N; Romano, MC; Thiel, M; Kurth J . (2007). Physics Reports 438 (5-6): 237.
  • "The backbone of the climate network". Donges, JF; Zou, Y; Marwan N; Kurths J (2009). Europhysics Letters 87, 48007
  • "Influence of paced maternal breathing on fetal-maternal heart rate coordination". van Leeuwen, P; Geue, D; Thiel, M; Cysarz, D; Long, S; Romano, M; Wessel, N; Kurths, J and Grönemeier, D (2009). PNAS 106, 13661-13666
  • "Evidence for a bimodal distribution in human communication". Wu, Y; Zhou, C; Xiao, J; Kurths, J ; Schellnhuber, HJ (2010). PNAS 107 (44): 18803-18808
  • "How basin stability complements the linear-stability paradigm". Menck, P; Heitzig J; Marwan, N; Kurths J (2013). Nature Physics 9, pp. 89-92

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.pik-potsdam.de/forschung/komplexitaetsforschung/
  2. ↑ Ten PIK researchers among the most influential scientists worldwide . PIK press release. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers 2019 . Clarivate Analytics . Retrieved December 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kurths, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Arendsee (Altmark)