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Honorarprofessor Dr. Stefan Luther

Research Interests

Prof. Dr. Stefan Luther

My research focuses on mechanisms of self-organization far from equilibrium in complex biological and hydrodynamic systems, combining expertise from fluid dynamics, soft-condensed matter physics, nonlinear dynamics and theoretical biology. I am developing multi-scale, high-resolution fluorescence imaging techniques and advanced multi-modal signal analysis for the investigation of the physics of complex matter. The research is devoted to both analysis of biological and medical processes using physical methodology and facilitation of medical procedures by technical means.

Curriculum Vitae

2009 - 2012 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
since 2008 Adjunct Professor of Physics (Honorarprofessor), Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics, Georg-August-University, Goettingen
since 2006 Head of Biomedical Physics Group (W2), a Max Planck Research Group (Selbstaendige Nachwuchsgruppe der Max Planck Gesellschaft)
2004-06 Postdoctoral Associate, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, with Eberhard Bodenschatz
2001-04 Postdoctoral Associate, University of Twente, Enschede, NL, with Detlef Lohse
2000 PhD, Georg-August-University, Goettingen
1997 Diplom in Physics, Georg-August-University Goettingen

Collaborators

  • Eberhard Bodenschatz, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
  • Elizabeth M. Cherry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • Flavio H. Fenton, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • Robert F. Gilmour Jr., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • Stephan S. Lehnart, Universitätsklinikum Göttingen, Germany
  • Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Universitätsklinikum Göttingen, Germany
  • Markus Zabel, Universitätsklinikum Göttingen, Germany
  • Gerd Hasenfuss, Universitätsklinikum Göttingen, Germany