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Bertrand Berche (Personal webpage)IJL, University de LorraineBertrand Berche was born on May 6, 1963 in Metz, France. He obtained his Msc in physics and applied physics in 1987 from Henri Poincaré University of Nancy, later completing his PhD studies here in 1991. Since then, he has remained at the same university, which in 2009 became a part of the University of Lorraine, as Maître de Conférences. He habilitated in 1997 and became a full professor in 1998. Between 2008–2011 he was president of the Condensed Matter Section of the National Council of Universities, France. In 2008-2013 he was Director of the Physics Department at the University of Lorraine, and since 2007, he is involved in the organization of a French-German doctoral college which then became the L4-collaboration between Leipzig, Lorraine, Lviv and Coventry. He was advisor and co-advisor of ten PhD students. He was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of Lviv in 2016. His research concerns mainly Statistical Physics, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and History of Sciences. |
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Viktoria Blavatska (Personal webpage)Institute for Condensed Matter PhysicsMain scientific interests: development of the theory and computer simulations of polymer macromolecules, charachterised by complexity of topology (branched polymers, ring polymers) and chemical structure (multicomponent heteropolymers, copolymers, polyampholytes) in solutions. Of particular interest is the analysis of the influence of structural impurities and inhomogeneities in environment on the conformational properties and peculiarities of phase transitions of macromolecules in good solutions. |
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Lucas Böttcher (Personal webpage)Frankfurt School of Finance & ManagementLucas Böttcher is an Assistant Professor for Computational Social Science at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Lucas received his PhD in applied mathematics and computational physics from ETH Zürich in 2018. Prior to his appointment at Frankfurt School, he worked as a Lecturer at the Institute for Theoretical Physics and as a postdoctoral researcher in the Macroeconomics, Innovation, and Policy group at ETH Zürich. In 2020, he joined the Departments of Computational Medicine and Mathematics at UCLA as a research scientist and fellow of the Swiss National Fund. Lucas has also worked in the private sector as a computational scientist in the Digital Solutions Group of the Leoni AG. His research utilizes advanced computational and analytical methods to tackle real-world problems in the social sciences, medicine, and biology. Examples of applied research topics include epidemic processes, political polarization, and the rapid rise of antibiotic resistance. In addition, his research addresses fundamental questions in applied and computational mathematics, statistical mechanics, and machine learning. In this line of research, he focuses on (i) modeling and control of high-dimensional stochastic processes and dynamical systems, (ii) developing network analysis methods, and (iii) developing data assimilation schemes to combine mechanistic models and empirical data in the social and biological sciences. His research was featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Collection of the American Physical Society, ETH and UCLA news, and in KPCC’s AirTalk with Larry Mantle. The European Parliament mentioned parts of Lucas’ work in a policy report. |
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Reinhard Folk (Personal webpage)Johannes Kepler UniversityReinhard Folk was born in Neuendettelsau, Germany, on 29 April 1945. He completed his doctoral degree at Vienna University in 1973. In 1973 Folk took up a research position within the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Linz. It was here he become a Senior Associate Professor in 1984 eventually retiring from this position on 1 December 2009. Between 1986--1987 he also held the position of Visiting Associate Professor (Chair of Prof. W\"olfle) at the Physics Department of the Technical University Munich, Germany. His research interests lie in condensed matter physics; phase transitions; the history of physics. During his distinguished career he was awarded the Walter Schottky Prize of the German Physical Society (together with Volker Dohm) in 1982 and a Degree 'Doctor ho\-noris causa' by the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv in 2009. |
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Ben F. Maier (Personal webpage)Humboldt University of Berlin and the Robert Koch Institute.He is a post-doctoral researcher mainly studying how human behavior influences the spread of infectious diseases, but with widespread interest and experience regarding complex systems, network theory, data science, educational outreach, and algorithmic arts. Having a background in physics, he is trained in analyzing and visualizing big data sets as well as searching for the fundamental mechanisms that shape a system’s behavior. Current position is with Dirk Brockmann, professor for theoretical biology at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Robert Koch Institute. |
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Joseph Yose (Personal webpage)Analytics Consultant at MinitabExperienced researcher and data scientist with a demonstrated history of working in various industries including Finance and Manufacturing. Skilled in Statistical and Mathematical Modelling, Python (Programming Language), R, Minitab and KNIME. Strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Applied Mathematics. Main interests are in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. |