Theo Geisel

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Theo Geisel (born August 24, 1948 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German theoretical physicist .

life and career

Geisel studied physics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Regensburg , where he received his doctorate in 1975 on the theory of Raman scattering in ammonium halides . He then worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart from 1976-77 and at the Xerox PARC research center in Palo Alto in 1978/79 . In 1982 he completed his habilitation. In 1988/89 he was professor of theoretical physics at the University of Würzburg and from 1989 at the University of Frankfurt before becoming professor at the University of Göttingen in 1996 . There he was also director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (the former Max Planck Institute for Flow Research) and coordinator of the Bernstein Center Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (BCCN Göttingen), which he has headed since its foundation in 2005. He has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 2013 and retired in September 2016.

Geisel is married and has two children. He plays the flute and saxophone in both classical and jazz environments.

Scientific fields of work

Geisel deals with issues of nonlinear dynamics and quantum chaos, with applications, for example, to transport in semiconductor nanostructures and in the dynamics of neural networks, e.g. B. neural synchronization and pattern formation in the visual cortex. Since 2005, he studied in collaboration with Dirk Brockmann and the spread of infection by human travel activity (such as the distribution of banknotes) by generalizations of random walks ( random walks ), the Lévy processes (Lévy walks, Lévy flights), writable are. He also researched the psychophysics of the swing feeling .

Prizes and awards

He was a Heisenberg fellow from 1983 to 1987 and received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 1994 . In 2008 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2009 he received the Franco-German Gentner-Kastler Prize . Geisel is an expert in the field of biophysics on the editorial board of the journal Physical Review Letters .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ entry (MPI)
  2. ↑ Marc Timme, Fred Wolf and Theo Geisel: Topological speed limits to network synchronization, in: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 92, 2004, p. 074101
  3. ↑ Geisel, F. Wolf: Universality in visual cortical pattern formation, in: Journal of Physiology, Vol. 97, 2003, pp. 253-264.
  4. ↑ T. Geisel and J. Nierwetberg: Onset of diffusion and universal scaling in chaotic systems, in: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 48, 1984, p. 7. Theo Geisel: Dem Geld auf der Spur, in: Physik Journal 2008, No. 8/9 (lecture on the Gentner-Kastler-Prize). Dirk Brockmann and Theo Geisel: Lévy flights in inhomogeneous media, in: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 90, 2003, p. 170601. Dirk Brockmann and Theo Geisel: Forecast and control of epidemics in a globalized world, in: Proc. National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 101, 2004, pp. 15124-15129. Lars Hufnagel, Dirk Brockmann, Theo Geisel: Scaling laws in human travel, in: Nature Vol. 439, 2006, pp. 452–456.
  5. ↑ George Datseris, Annika Ziereis, Thorsten Albrecht, York Hagmayer, Viola Priesemann & Theo Geisel Microtiming Deviations and Swing Feel in Jazz Scientific Reports 9, 19824 (2019)
personal data
SURNAME Hostage, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg an der Lahn , American zone of occupation