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I received my undergraduate degree (the German diploma) in physics in 1999 from the University of Münster, with a thesis on supersymmetric Ward identities in the group of Professor Gernot Münster. I was then a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford and Balliol College, where I worked on topics related to the Minority Game with Professor David Sherrington. I completed my DPhil in theoretical physics in 2004. Subsequently I moved to the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy as a postdoc, and then took up a permanent position at the University of Manchester, UK (first as a Research Councils UK Research Fellow, then I got promoted through the ranks, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor). Since 2019 I have been based at IFISC in Palma de Mallorca.
Degrees and diplomas
2004: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford (Balliol College), UK
1999: Diplom in Physics, University of Münster, Germany
1996: Vordiplom in Physics and in Mathematics, University of Münster
1980: Diploma of play, Parents nursery school Palo Alto, California
Current PhD students
Carlotta Nunzi, disordered systems, complex ecosystems and game learning
David Ortiz, co-supervised with Raul Toral, noise-induced phenomena in non-Markovian systems
Sara Oliver Bonafoux, co-supervised with Raul Toral, Stochastic processes, backtracking and rare events
Paride Crisafulli, co-supervised with Raul Toral and Claudio Mirasso, Statistical physics and medical statistics
Annalisa Caligiuri, co-supervised with Lucas Lacasa, Networks, Dynamics and Statistical Physics
Alejando Almodóvar co-supervised with Cristobal Lopez, Birth-death processes in pattern forming multi-particle processes
PhD student collaborators
Rubén Calvo
Christopher Kitching
Antoine Moneyron
Lyle Poley
Laura Sidhom
Current MSc students
Mr Adrian Roig (JAE Intro student)
Former PhD students
Dr Annabel Davies, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester
Dr Ernesto Berríos Caro, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, supervised with Danna Gifford
Dr Joseph Baron, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester
Dr Francisco Herrias-Azcué, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester
Dr Henri Kauhanen, Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester, supervised with Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
Dr Peter Hufton, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester
Dr Matthew Russell, Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, supervised with Oliver Jensen
Dr Marco Smolla, Evolutionary Ecology, University of Manchester, supervised with Susanne Shultz and Tucker Gilman
Dr Pete(r) Ashcroft, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester
Dr Toby Brett, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester
Dr Alex Bladon, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester
Former MSc students (IFISC master in Physics of Complex Systems)
David Ortiz, co-supervised with Raul Toral (now PhD student at IFISC)
Samuele Ciardella
Sara Oliver Bonafoux, co-supervised with Raul Toral (now PhD student at IFISC)
Enrique Rozas (now PhD student at University of Gothenburg)
Teresa Lazaro, co-supervised with Konstantin Klemm (now PhD student at Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Ruben Calvo (now PhD student at University of Granada)
Miguel Alvarez, co-supervised with Maxi San Miguel (now PhD student at IFISC)
Ferran Larroya (now PhD student at University of Barcelona)
At the University of Manchester I supervised a total of more than 30 final-year MPhys projects, so 60+ students (most do their projects in pairs)
Senior collaborators (past and present) include:
Ginestra Bianconi
Richard Clayton
Ton Coolen
Luca Dall'Asta
Andrea de Martino
Victor Eguiluz
J. Doyne Farmer
Otfried Gühne
Oliver Jensen
Lucas Lacasa
Yen Ting Lin
Nancy Papalopolou
Matteo Marsili
Alan McKane
Franziska Michor
Claudio Mirasso
Magnus Rattray
Tim Rogers
Gerta Rücker
Maxi San Miguel
David Sherrington
Peter Sollich
Raul Toral
Arne Traulsen
Martin Weigt
Riccardo Zecchina
Yi-Cheng Zhang
Mentors
Beyond my former direct supervisors Gernot Münster and David Sherrington there are a number of special people who significantly affected my path at various stages. I am very grateful for their support and mentoring (alphabetical order):
Damien Challet, Ton Coolen, Helen Gleeson, Doyne Farmer, Sean Freeman, the late Ian Kogan, Esteban Moro, Armin Reichold, Maxi San Miguel
Other
I once met Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.
I really like Dutch liquorice. I buy some from this van here whenever I am in my home town Münster.
I was born with d-transposition of the great arteries, and had heart surgery as a child. If you are a fellow adult with congenital heart disease, feel free to get in touch.
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