I studied physics at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and graduated with a thesis on the theory of self-organization in complex system and the analysis of MEG data at the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Synergetics directed by Professor Hermann Haken.

I did my PhD study at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on stochastic properties of human movement systems and general aspects of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations in the research group of Professor Peter Beek and in collaboration with Professor Hermann Haken.

I worked as post-doc in the research group of Professor Rudolf Friedrich at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Münster (Germany). I received my Habilitation in Physics in 2006

Since August 2007, I am working as Assistant professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of Connecticut (USA)

2006: Habilitation in physics (University of Münster)
2001: PhD (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1996: Diploma in physics (M.A) (University of Stuttgart)

Research fields:

Movement and locomotion in general
Force production (e.g. isometric force)
Posture (e.g. postural sway)
Coordinated movements (e.g. bimanual coordination)
Neural motor control level (e.g. neural network modeling)
Development
Adaptation (e.g. prism adaptation)
Learning (e.g. training methods in sports)
Memory (e.g. free recall)
Perceptual feedback delays
Group behavior (e.g. conformity, mass behavior)
Direct perception, affordances
Dynamic diseases (e.g. Parkinson as a dynamic disease)

Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, Brownian motion in general

Nonlinear physics, pattern formation, self-organization in general

Nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations
Irreversible thermodynamics
Generalized nonextensive thermodynamics

Many-body systems
Vlasov systems (incl. accelerator physics)
Synchronization (coupled oscillators systems)

Stochastic delay differential equations

Data analysis (time series analysis)
Stochastic analysis methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.)

Financial physics

Textbook: Nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations -- Fundamentals and Applications

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