Bernhard Altaner

Doctoral Thesis Project
Foundations of Stochastic Thermodynamics


Doctoral Thesis Committee

• Vollmer, Juergen, Dr. - Dynamics of Complex Fluids (MPI-ds)
• Bodenschatz, Eberhard, Prof. Dr. - Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Nanobiocomplexity (MPI-ds, Uni-Phy)
• Timme, Marc, Prof. Dr. - Network Dynamics (MPI-ds)

Homepage Department/Research Group

http://www.dcf.ds.mpg.de/index.php?id=134&L=3



University Education

• 10/2010-present Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization / University of Göttingen / GGNB program Physics of Biological and Complex Systems
• 10/2004-06/2010 University of Konstanz, Germany, Diplom, Physics, thesis: "Non-Linear Response of a Colloidal Particle in a Dense Suspension Under Flow"
• 09/2007-06/2008 University of Cambridge, UK, department: Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Publications

• Bernhard Altaner and Jürgen Vollmer. Fluctuation-Preserving Coarse Graining for Biochemical Systems. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 228101
• Bernhard Altaner, Stefan Grosskinsky, Stephan Herminghaus, Lukas Katthän, Marc Timme, and Jürgen Vollmer. Network representations of nonequilibrium steady states: Cycle decompositions, symmetries, and dominant paths. Phys. Rev. E 85 (2012) 041133

Fellowships, Awards, Memberships

• Promotionsstipendium Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (PhD scholarship)
• 2010 Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Stiftung, The Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau, Participation as a Young Researcher