“Complex systems science is not just an innovative field of fundamental research but helps solving real-world problems, by proposing fresh approaches to some of the biggest challenges of our times, be it a matter of human health or the the climate system,” points out Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of PIK. “Jürgen Kurths has always ventured to new intellectual frontiers, and has achieved brilliant successes in doing so.”
Many of the researchers attending the conference are long-standing scientific partners of Kurths: Kazuyuki Aihara of the University of Tokyo, Celso Grebogi of the University of Aberdeen, or Shlomo Havlin of Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, to name just a few. Other participants are former students of Jürgen Kurths, who now hold professorships, amongst them Changsong Zhou of the Hong Kong Baptist University, or Alexey Zaikin of the University College London
