Complexity Science Group
University of Calgary
Curriculum Vitae
| Current Position | Associate Professor (tenure), Ingenuity New Faculty |
| Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Canada | |
| Professional Experience | Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Oct. 2006 - April 2012, Ingenuity New Faculty |
| Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Canada | |
| Research Scientist (tenure), Oct. 2005 - Sept. 2006, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK | |
| Financial Risk Consultant, June - Sept. 2005, d-fine GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Research Associate, Jan. 2003 - April 2005, Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany | |
| Principal collaborators: Prof. Markus Bär and Prof. Raymond Kapral | |
| Visiting scientist, March 2005, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada | |
| Principal collaborator: Prof. Maya Paczuski | |
| Visiting scientist, February 2005, Fritz-Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany | |
| Principal collaborator within the Department of Physical Chemistry (Head: Prof. Gerhard Ertl): | |
| Prof. Alexander Mikhailov | |
| Visiting scientist, March 2004, Imperial College, London, UK | |
| Principal collaborator: Prof. Maya Paczuski | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, Aug. 2001 - Dec. 2002, University of Toronto, Canada | |
| Principal collaborator: Prof. Raymond Kapral | |
| Visiting scientist, March - May 2001, Imperial College, London, UK | |
| Principal collaborators: Prof. Per Bak and Prof. Maya Paczuski | |
| Education | Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in Theoretical Physics, July 2001, |
| University of Kiel, Germany | |
| Title of thesis: Models for 1/f noise | |
| Advisor: Prof. Heinz Georg Schuster | |
| M.Sc. in Physics, August 1998, The Pennsylvania State University, USA | |
| Title of thesis: Critical Exponents and Renormalization | |
| Advisor: Prof. Shyamoli Chaudhuri | |
| Vordiplom in Mathematics, minor Physics, May 1997 | |
| University of Kiel, Germany | |
| Vordiplom in Physics, minor Computer Sciences, October 1996 | |
| University of Kiel, Germany | |
| Organized Symposia | Special Session on "Complex Networks in Geosciences" 2010 AGU Fall Meeting, December 13-17 2010 American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA |
| Special Session on "Complex Networks in Geosciences" 2009 AGU Fall Meeting, December 14-18 2009 American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA |
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| MITACS Workshop on "Geocomplexity", May 28-29 2009 Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems, York University, Toronto, Canada |
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| Special Session on "Geocomplexity" 2009 Joint Assembly, May 24-27 2009 Canadian Geophysical Union & American Geophysical Union, Toronto, Canada |
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| Special Session on "Scaling Aspects in Earthquake Analysis and Modeling" SSA 2008 Annual Meeting, April 16-18 2008 Seismological Society of America, Santa Fe, USA |
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| Session on "Seismicity Pattern Dynamics" EGU General Assembly 2004, April 25-30 2004 European Geosciences Union, Nice, France |
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| Program Committees | Dynamics on and of Complex Networks Satellite Workshop of European Conference on Complex Systems, Oct. 4 2007 Dresden, Germany |
| Editor Experience | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (NPG) Guest editor for special issue on "Seismicity Pattern Dynamics" Guest editor for special issue on "Geocomplexity: novel approaches to understanding geosystems" |
| Referee Experience | Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Physical Review B |
| Europhysics Letters,European Physical Journal B | |
| Physica A, Physica D, Chaos, SIAM Review | |
| Journal of Chemical Physics, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters | |
| Geophysical Research Letters, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics | |
| Pure and Applied Geophysics, Journal of Seismology | |
| Geophysical Journal International, Tectonophysics, Terra Nova | |
| Selected Honors & Scholarships | Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award 2009 |
| Three-month scholarship granted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for conducting research at the Imperial College, London, UK | |
| Full Ph.D. scholarship granted by the Land Government of Schleswig-Holstein | |
| Scholarship for the academic year 1997/98 at the Pennsylvania State University granted by the Pennsylvania State University | |
| Professional Affiliations | The German Physical Society |
| The American Geophysical Union | |
| The Canadian Association of Physicists | |
| The American Physical Society | |
| The European Geosciences Union | |
| The Seismological Society of America | |
| Interests & Activities | Travelling |
| Soccer, ultimate, skiing | |
| History and archeology |