Doctoral Thesis Project
Experimental investigation of the transition to turbulence in linearly stable and unstable flows


Doctoral Thesis Committee

• Hof, Björn, Dr. - Complex Dynamics and Turbulence (MPI-ds)


• Bodenschatz, Eberhard, Prof. Dr. - Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Nanobiocomplexity (MPI-ds, Uni-Phy)


• Tilgner, Andreas , Prof. Dr. - external

Homepage Department/Research Group

http://www.ds.mpg.de/english/research/Hof/index.html



University Education

• 11/2009-present Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization / University of Göttingen / GGNB program Physics of Biological and Complex Systems


• 02/2005-07/2008 Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany, Diplom, Physics, thesis: "Wellenpropagation in einer rotierenden Scherströmung"

Fellowships, Awards, Memberships

• 2011 Co-Organisator of the '5th European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference' http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb13/epfdc5?language_sync=1


• 10/2010 Interview with the German newspaper "Die Zeit online" http://www.zeit.de/studium/uni-leben/2010-09/kerstin-avila-wasser