Jörn Dunkel

 

Research interests

• biological physics and mathematical biology
• hydrodynamics and transport in complex biological fluids
• dynamics and statistical mechanics of microorganisms
• regeneration and aging of multicellular organisms
• diffusion and random processes
• stochastic finance, Monte-Carlo methods

Positions

• since 2011 Research Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
• since 2010 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge
• 2008-2010 Junior Research Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford
• 2008-2010 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford

Education

• 2008 Dr rer nat, Institute for Physics, Universität Augsburg
• 2005 Dipl Math, Institute for Mathematics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2004 Dipl Phys, Institute for Physics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2000-2001 Visiting Student, Exeter College, University of Oxford

Selected publications

• K. Drescher, J. Dunkel, L. H. Cisneros, S. Ganguly and R. E. Goldstein
  Fluid dynamics and noise in bacterial cell-cell and cell-surface scattering
  PNAS 108(27): 10940-10945, 2011
   
• I. M. Zaid, J. Dunkel and J. M. Yeomans
  Levy fluctuations and mixing in dilute suspensions of algae and bacteria
  J. R. Soc. Interface 8: 1314-1331, 2011
   
• J. Dunkel and S. Weber
  Stochastic root finding and efficient estimation of convex risk measures
  Operations Research 58(5): 1505-1521, 2010
   
• J. Dunkel, P. Hänggi and S. Hilbert
  Nonlocal observables and lightcone-averaging in relativistic thermodynamics
  Nature Physics 5: 741-747, 2009
   
• J. Dunkel and P. Hänggi
  Relativistic Brownian motion
  Physics Reports 471(1): 1-73, 2009
   
• D. Cubero, J. Casado-Pascual, J. Dunkel, P. Talkner and P. Hänggi
  Thermal equilibrium and statistical thermometers in special relativity
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 99: 170601, 2007