Eberhard Bodenschatz is a German

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate ca ...

. He was born on April 22, 1959 in

Rehau Rehau is a town in the district of Hof, in Bavaria, Germany. The first documented name of Rehau was "Resawe" in the year 1234. Rehau is situated in the Fichtelgebirge, 12 km southeast of Hof, and 12 km west of Aš. Formerly a fairl ...

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...

. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the

University of Bayreuth A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

in 1989. In 1991, during his postdoctoral research at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the ...

, he received a faculty position in experimental physics at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

. From 1992 until 2005, during his tenure at Cornell he was a visiting professor at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

(1999-2000). In 2003 he became a Scientific Member of the

Max Planck Society The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (german: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. ...

and an Adjunct Director (2003-2005)/ Director (since 2005) at the

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization The Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany, is a research institute for investigations of complex non-equilibrium systems, particularly in physics and biology. Its founding history goes back to Ludwig Pran ...

. He continues to have close ties to

, where he is Adjunct Professor of Physics and of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (since 2005). He was elected a

Fellow of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its moti ...

in 2003.

References

External links

Prof. Eberhard Bodenschatz's Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Nanobiocomplexity

Video

Video on Eberhard Bodenschatz's research (Latest Thinking)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bodenschatz, Eberhard 1959 births Living people 21st-century German physicists People from Rehau University of Bayreuth alumni University of California, Santa Barbara alumni Cornell University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society 20th-century German physicists Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities Max Planck Institute directors