Curriculum vitae
Personal data
Place of Birth
Brünn, Czechoslovakia
Date of Birth
11. April 1945
Nationality
German
Status
Married, two daughters
Education and scientific career
2000
Titular Professor of Physics at the University of Basel
1984
Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel
1979
Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Stuttgart
1972
Diploma in Physics
1967 - 1972
Study of Physics at the University of Stuttgart
1965 - 1967
Study of Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart
Employment
since April 2019
retired
June 2002 - March 2019
Senior Scientist at the Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg
2000 - April 2002
Senior Scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute
1995 - 1999
Head of the Section Stochastic Systems at the Paul Scherrer Institute
1989 - 1994
Head of the Section Systems Analysis at the Paul Scherrer Institute
1981 - 1989
Research Assistant with Prof. Thomas in Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel
1977 - 1980
Research Assistant with Prof. Weidlich in Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart
1970 - 1977
Teacher in Physics at the Chemisches Institut Dr. Flad in Stuttgart
International activities
September 2019
Visiting Professor at PCS IBS, Daejeon, Korea
March 2015
Visiting Professor, APCTP, Pohang, Korea
October, November 2014
Humboldt Fellow, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland
January, February 2014
Visiting Professor, APCTP, Pohang, Korea
June - August 2013
APCTP Scholar, Pohang, Korea
May 2013
Visiting Professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
November 2001
Visiting Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany
March 2001
Visiting Professor, Institute of Physics, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland
May 1998
Visiting Professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
March 1997
Visiting Professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
July 1995
Visiting Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
May - July 1993
Visiting Professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (DPG)
March 1992
Visiting Professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
March 1986
Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, USA
April 1985
Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, USA
Memberships in scientific societies and committees
American Physical Society
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
European Physical Society
International Scientific Committee of the XXIVth International School of Theoretical Physics, Ustron, Poland, September 25 - October 1, 2000
International Scientific Committee of the XIVth Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, September 9 - 14,2001
Steering Committee of the ESF program "Stochastic Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications'' 2003-2008
International Scientific Committee of the XVIth Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, September 9-14, 2003
Board member and Secretary of the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division of the European Physical Society, 2009-2011
Scientific coordination of the International Workshop on Noise in Non-Equilibrium Systems: From Physics to Biology, Max Planck Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany, April 11-14, 2011
Member of the Evaluation Panel: Exact Sciences & Engineering 2012, Funda??o para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT-Portugal
Member of the Academia Europaea 2017
Organizer of ACTP-KIAS Workshop on Motors and Engines, Seoul, Korea, June 25 - 27, 2018
Member of the Evaluation Panel: Exact Sciences & Engineering 2019, Funda??o para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT-Portugal
Scientific coordinator of the International Workshop on Open Quantum Dynamics and Thermodynamics, IBS, PCS, Daejeon, Korea, March 30 - April 3, 2020
Awards
Outstanding Referee of the Journals of the American Physical Society, 2008
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2009
AP Scholar, Asia Pacific Center of Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Korea, Juni - August 2013
Honorary Polish Humboldt Fellow, 2014-2016
Editorial activities
New Trends in Kramers Reaction Theory,
edited by P. Talkner and P. H?nggi, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1995.
Dynamical Processes in Condensed Phases,
Chem. Phys. 235, Nos. 1-3 (1998), Special issue,
Guest Editors: P. Talkner, E. Pollak, A.M. Berezhkovskii.
Editorial Board of Physical Review E
Brownian Motion and Diffusion in the 21st Century
New J. Phys. 7 (2005)
Guest Editors: P. H?nggi, J. Luczka, P. Talkner.
Dynamics of Molecular Systems: From Quantum to Classical
Chem. Phys. 370, Nos. 1-3 (2010), Special Issue,
Guest Editors: J. Shao, J. Ankerhold, P. Talkner.
Stochastic Processes in Physics ans Chemistry
Chem. Phys. 375, Nos. 2-3 (2010), Special Issue,
Guest Editors: I. Goychuk, P. Jung, S. Kohler, G. Schmid, P. Talkner.
Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports, 2014-2015.