Юрген Герберт Густаф Куртц
Dr. Jürgen Kurths is a German physicist and mathematician. His research is mainly concerned with nonlinear physics and complex systems sciences and their applications to challenging problems in Earth system, physiology, systems biology and engineering.
Academic Training & Professional Experience
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1975 |
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Diploma in Mathematics, University of Rostock |
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1975 – 1983 |
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Scientist, Central Institute for solar-terrestrial Physics, Academy of Sciences, Berlin (East Germany) |
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1983 |
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Dr.rer.nat. (PhD) at the Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany |
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1984 – 1990 |
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Scientist, Central Institute for Astrophysics, Academy of Sciences, Potsdam (East Germany) |
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1990 – 1991 |
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Project leader at the Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam (Germany) |
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1991 |
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Habilitation: Theoretical Physics, University Rostock, Germany |
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1992 – 1996 |
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Director of the working group „Nonlinear Dynamics“ of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |
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1994 – 2008 |
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Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre “Dynamics of Complex Systems” at the University Potsdam |
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1994 – 2008 |
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Full Professor (C4) for Theoretical Physics/Nonlinear Dynamics at the University Potsdam |
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2009 - 2017 |
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6th Century Chair for Complex Systems Biology (part time), King´s College, University of Aberdeen (UK) |
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Since 2008 |
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Chair of Research Domain: Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
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Since 2008 |
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Full Professor for Nonlinear Dynamics, Institute of Physics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
Other Professional Service Activities
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2000 – 2001 |
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Vice-President for Research and International Relations, at the University Potsdam |
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1998 – 2010 |
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Vice-Speaker of Sonderforschungsbereich 555 „Komplexe Nichtlineare Prozesse“ (DFG) |
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1999 – 2009 |
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President of the Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam |
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2000 – 2005 |
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President of the European Geophysical Union for the Division Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
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2000 – 2008 |
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Coordinator of the Profilbereich “Komplexe Systeme” at the University Potsdam |
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2001 – 2007 |
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Co-Coordinator of Schwerpunktprogramm 1114 “Time Series Analysis and Image Processing” (DFG) |
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Since 2001 |
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Organizational Board “Experimental Chaos Conference” |
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2003 – 2006 |
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Speaker of the Research Group “Conflicting Rules in Cognitive Science” (DFG) |
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2004 – 2009 |
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Member of the steering committee of the Network of Excellence BIOSIM (EU) |
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2007 – 2011 |
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Member of the steering committee of GoFORSYS, Centre for Systems Biology, University Potsdam |
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2010 - 2014 |
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Member of the Advisory Board of Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology – FIRST (Japan) |
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2010 - 2016 |
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PI at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin |
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2011 – 2020 |
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Speaker of the International Research and Training Group (IRTG 1740): Dynamical and Transport Phenomena on Complex Networks (Germany and Brazil, DFG&FAPESP) |
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Since 2013 |
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Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden |
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Since 2016 |
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Elected Member of the Review Board, German Science Foundation |
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2016 - 2017 |
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Chairman Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin(PGzB) |
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Since 2016 |
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Chapman Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks |
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Since 2016 |
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Honorary Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an (China) |
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Since 2018 |
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Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the MPI for Molecular Physiology |
Awards and Nominations
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2000 |
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Fellow of the American Physical Society |
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2005 |
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Award Computers in Cardiology Challenge |
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2005 |
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Alexander von Humboldt Research Award from CSIR (India) |
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2008 |
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Honory Doctorate from Lobatschevsky University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia |
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2010 |
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Member of the Academia Europaea |
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2011 |
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Honorary Professor, University Potsdam |
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2012 |
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Guest Professor, Southeast University, Nanjing |
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2012 |
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Honorary Doctorate from State University, Saratov |
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2013 |
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Lewis Fry Richardson Medal of the European Geosciences Union |
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2015 |
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Burgers Visiting Professor and Burgers Lecture, University of Maryland |
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2017, 2018 |
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Highly Cited Researcher (WoS) |
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2017 |
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Honorary Professor, King´s College, University of Aberdeen |
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2018 |
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Honorary Professor, Tianjin University (China) |
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2018 |
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Honorary Professor, Huaqiao University, Xiamen (China) |
Member of Board of Journals and Book Series
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2000-2011 |
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Int. Journal Bifurcation & Chaos |
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Since 2012 |
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Honory board member of Int. J. Bif.&Chaos |
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Since 2003 |
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Springer Series of Complexity |
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Since 2005 |
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Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Executive Editor |
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2008-2013 |
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Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |
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Since 2009 |
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European Journal Physics, Special Topics |
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Since 2011 |
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PLoS ONE |
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Since 2012 |
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European Journal Physics, Nonlinear Biomedical Physics |
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Since 2015 |
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Europhysics Letters |
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Since 2016 |
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CHAOS, Editor-in-Chief |
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Since 2017 |
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AIMS Geosciences |
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Since 2017 |
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Advanced Theory and Simulations |