Prof. Dr. Reik Donner - Curriculum Vitae


 

Professional Experience

since 09/2018   Professor for Mathematics, especially Data Science and Stochastic Modeling, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburg

since 01/2020   Guest Scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

04/2014 - 12/2019  Group Leader, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

07/2013 - 03/2014  Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena

07/2013 - 03/2014  Visiting Scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

04/2010 - 06/2013   Research Associate, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

04/2010 - 11/2018   Visiting Scientist, Dresden University of Technology

09/2009 - 02/2010   Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

04/2009 - 03/2010   Visiting Scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

01/2009 - 02/2009   Guest Professor, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

04/2008 - 09/2009   Adjunct Lecturer, Dresden University of Technology

02/2007 - 03/2007   JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

10/2006 - 03/2010   Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Dresden University of Technology

08/2004 - 09/2006   Research Scientist, Nonlinear Dynamics Group, University of Potsdam

10/2002 - 07/2004   Graduate Research Assistant / Project Scholar of VW foundation, Nonlinear Dynamics Group, University of Potsdam

01/2002 - 09/2002   Undergraduate Research Assistant, Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg

11/2000 - 12/2001   Undergraduate Research Assistant, Nonlinear Dynamics Group, University of Potsdam

 

Education

10/2003 - 01/2007   PhD Student, Nonlinear Dynamics Group, University of Potsdam (Thesis advisors: Dr. Annette Witt / Prof. Jürgen Kurths)

06/2003   Gram Combin Summer School "Paleoclimate: Combining Observations and Dynamics"

10/2002 - 09/2006   Study of Mathematics, University of Potsdam

09/2000   WE-Hereaus Summer School "Nonlinear Dynamics in Environmental Physics"

10/1997 - 09/2002   Study of Physics, University of Potsdam (Thesis advisor: Dr. Fred Feudel)

08/1996 - 09/1997   Civil Service, Brandenburg an der Havel

06/1996   Abitur (University Entrance Diploma), von-Saldern-Gymnasium Brandenburg an der Havel

 

Awards

12/2020   Excellence in  Teaching Award ("Lehrpreis"), Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences

06/2020   Paper on Dynamical Anomalies in Paleoclimate Proxy Records selected as Paper of the Month in "Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics"

03/2018   Paper on Recovery Time Analysis selected for "New Journal of Physics Highlights of 2017"

02/2014   Independent Young Investigators Group "CoSy-CC2: Complex Systems Approaches to Understanding Causes and Coinsequences of Past, Present and Future Climate Change", funded by the German Federal Ministry for Science and Education (BMBF) via PT-DLR (funding period: 03/2014 - 02/2018)

04/2012   Division Officer for "Time Series and Patterns", European Geosciences Union, Division "Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics"

04/2011   EGU 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award, European Geosciences Union, Division "Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics"

03/2011   Paper on Recurrence Networks selected for "New Journal of Physics Best of 2010"

05/2010   Best Poster Award (joint poster with Jonathan F. Donges), SYNCLINE 2010

06/2009   Guest Scientist Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

11/2008   Guest Professorship, Osaka Prefecture University

01/2007   JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Short-term), Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science

01/2003   Wilhelm & Else Heraeus Award, Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin and WE Hereaus Foundation

 

Research Grants

06/2020 - 05/2023   JPI Climate / JPI Oceans Project ROADMAP (BMBF, 329.070,30 €) - Principal Investigator & Co-Lead WP 5

03/2019 - 02/2023   EU ITN Project CAFE (EU) - Co-Principal Investigator (Co-Supervision ESR 3)

04/2016 - 09/2020   Belmont Forum / JPI Climate Project GOTHAM (BMBF, 682.500,20 €) - Principal Investigator

04/2016 - 12/2020   DFG/FAPESP International Research Training Group IRTG 1740 Phase 2 - Principal Investigator & Lead WP C6

01/2016 - 12/2017   DAAD Project Exchange with Norway, University of Tromso and University of Bergen (DAAD, 13.178,00 €) - Project Lead

01/2015 - 12/2016   DAAD Project Exchange with the Czech Republic, Institute for Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (DAAD, 10.316,00 €) - Project Lead

04/2014 - 12/2019   Young Investigators Group CoSy-CC2 (BMBF, 1.302.458,78 €) - Project Lead

Editorial Services

  • Editorial Board Member, Entropy (MDPI)
  • Editorial Board Member, Quaternary (MDPI)
  • since 2015 - Editorial Board Member, Climate (MDPI)
  • 2014/15 - Guest Editor, Advances in Time Series Analysis and its Applications (with Z.-K. Gao, M. Small, M. Du, H.O. Ghaffari) - Special Issue in Mathematical Problems in Engineering
  • since 2014 - Associate Editor, Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography (Copernicus)
  • 2014 - Guest Editor, Complex systems modelling and its transdisciplinary applications (with Kazuyuki Aihara, Mikio Hasegawa, Yoshito Hirata, Makito Oku, Thomas Stemler, Gouhei Tanaka, Bing Wang, Yoshihiko Horio, Tetsuya J. Kobayashi, Yutaka Shimada) - Special Section in Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA), IEICE
  • since 2013 - Review Editor, Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Physics
  • 2013 - Pattern recognition in geosciences (with Anita Simic, Leila Aliouane, Alex Cannon and Nicolas Younan) - Special Issue in Pattern Recognition in Physics
  • 2013/14 - Guest Editor, Complex network approaches to analyzing and modeling nonlinear systems in geosciences (with Jonathan Donges, Jörn Davidsen, Alexander Löw, Michael Small and Jürgen Kurths) - Special Issue in Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
  • 2012-2013 - Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition in Physics
  • 2011/12 - Guest Editor, Recent advances in data analysis and modeling of nonlinear geophysical systems (with Susana Barbosa, Jürgen Kurths and Pedro Miranda) -- Special Issue in Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
  • 2009 - Guest Editor, Understanding the Earth as a Complex System - Advances in Data Analysis and Modelling in Earth Sciences (with Susana Barbosa, Jürgen Kurths and Norbert Marwan) -- Topical Issue in the European Physical Journal - Special Topics, Vol. 174
  • 2008 - Nonlinear Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences - Applications in Climatology, Geodynamics, and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (with Susana Barbosa) -- LNES Vol. 112, Springer, Berlin

 

Teaching Experience

  • since winter 2018/19: regular curricular teaching (lectures and practical sessions) at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences (min. 16 SWS) on Mathematics I/II for Civil Engineering, Introduction to Time Series Analysis, Introduction to Multivariate Statistics, Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Time Series Analysis and others
  • winter 2017/18   Nonlinear Dynamics and Cimplex Networks in the Earth System (Lectures and Exercises for Students of Physics, MSc level, with Jürgen Kurths and Jonathan Donges), Humboldt University of Berlin (3 SWS)
  • summer 2016   Nonlinear Dynamics and Cimplex Networks in the Earth System (Lectures and Exercises for Students of Physics, MSc level, with Jürgen Kurths and Jonathan Donges), Humboldt University of Berlin (3 SWS)
  • winter 2014/15   Complex Networks (Lectures and Exercises for Students of Physics, MSc level, with Jürgen Kurths and Bedartha Goswami), Humboldt University of Berlin (3 SWS)
  • winter 2014/15   Nonlinear Dynamics in the Earth System: Climate, Ecology and Socio-Economy (Lectures and Exercises for Students of Physics, MSc level, with Jonathan Donges and Marc Wiedermann), Humboldt University of Berlin (3 SWS)
  • summer 2013   Complex Networks (Lectures and Exercises for Students of Physics, MSc level, with Jürgen Kurths and Peter Menck), Humboldt University of Berlin (3 SWS)
  • summer 2012   Linear and Nonlinear Methods of Data Analysis (Lectures and Exercises for Students of Physics, MSc level, with Niels Wessel and Jakob Runge), Humboldt University of Berlin (4 SWS)
  • summer 2009   Multivariate Transportation Analysis (Lectures and Exercises for Students of Transportation Economics, 6th semester and beyond), TU Dresden (4 SWS)
  • winter 2008/09   Linear and Nonlinear Dynamical Models (Lectures and Exercises for Students of Transportation Economics, 5th semester and beyond), TU Dresden (4 SWS)
  • summer 2008   Multivariate Transportation Analysis (Lectures and Exercises for Students of Transportation Economics, 6th semester and beyond), TU Dresden (4 SWS)
  • summer 2007   Statistics I (Exercises for Students of Transportation Economics, 2nd semester - 2 groups), TU Dresden (4 SWS)
  • summer 2007   Multivariate Transportation Analysis (Lectures for Students of Transportation Economics, 6th semester and beyond), TU Dresden (2 SWS)
  • winter 2006/07   Linear and Nonlinear Dynamical Models (Lectures and Exercises for Students of Transportation Economics, 5th semester and beyond, with Jan Siegmeier), TU Dresden (4 SWS)
  • summer 2004   Theoretical Mechanics (Exercises for Geoscientists, 2nd and 4th semester), University of Potsdam (2 SWS)
  • winter 2003/04   Physics Lab (Students of Physics, 3rd semester), University of Potsdam (4 SWS)
  • summer 2003   Physics Lab (Students of Physics, 2nd semester), University of Potsdam (4 SWS)

 Summer Schools and Workshops

  • 02/2021   International School of Space Science (ISSS) Web-School on Dynamical Systems and Machine Learning Approaches ton Sun-Earth Relations (2 lectures)
  • 09/2019   2nd GOTHAM International Summer School, Beijing (2 lectures)
  • 02-03/2019   COST ElectroNet Training Course on Advanced Data Analysis, Potsdam (10 lectures plus practical sessions)
  • 09/2017   1st GOTHAM International Summer School, Potsdam (2 lectures)
  • 09-10/2015   Cologne Summer School 2015: Non-Linear Methods for Complex Systems Analysis, University of Cologne (10 lectures plus practical sessions) 
  • 05/2014   Short Course "Complex systems methods for data analysis and modeling in geosciences" (with Jonathan Donges), EGU General Assembly (1,5 lectures)
  • 04/2013   Short Course "Nonlinear time series analysis" (with Jonathan Donges and Jakob Runge), EGU General Assembly (2 lectures)
  • 04/2012   Short Course "Nonlinear time series analysis" (with Jonathan Donges), EGU General Assembly, Vienna (2 lectures)
  • 09/2010   Lecturer at the Short Course on "Data Analysis and Modelling in Earth Sciences", University of Lisbon (2 lectures)
  • 01/2009   Modern Time Series Analysis in Climate Change Research (Lectures for PhD/MSc level students), Osaka Prefecture University (3 lectures)

Organization

02-03/2019 COST ElectroNet Training Course on Advanced Data Analysis, Potsdam

10/2017 PAGES Workshop on Climate Variability across Scales (CVaS), Potsdam

09/2017 1st GOTHAM International Summer School, Potsdam

09/2016 Fifth International Conference on Data Analysis and Modeling in Earth Sciences DAMES 2016, Hamburg

09/2015 International Workshop on Complex Network Perspectives on Flow Systems CONFLOW 2017, Potsdam

2015-2021 EGU General Assembly - various sessions in the "Nonlinear Processes" division

10/2014 Fourth International Conference on Data Analysis and Modeling in Earth Sciences DAMES 2014 (with Andrea Toreti)

04-05/2014 EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP4.1 "Time Series Analysis and Empirical Mode Decomposition in the Geosciences - Concepts, Methods & Applications" (with Susana Barbosa, Andrea Toreti, Said Gaci, Orietta Nicolis, Hocine Chellal)

04-05/2014 EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP2.4 "Complex networks and data-driven knowledge discovery in climate and geosciences" (with Per Nyberg, Karsten Steinhaeuser, Jonathan Donges)

04-05/2014 EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session SC5/GI1.11/NP1.5 "Complex systems methods for data analysis and modeling in geosciences" (with Jonathan Donges)

04-05/2014 EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP1.1 "Advances and Challenges in Nonlinear Geosciences" (as a member of the NP division board of science officers)

04/2013   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP4.1 "Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences - Concepts, Methods & Applications" (with Susana Barbosa)

04/2013   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP2.4/CL5.14/ESSI2.10 "Complex networks and data-driven knowledge discovery in geophysical systems" (with Per Nyberg, Mike Sips, Jürgen Kurths, Thomas Nocke, Karsten Steinhaeuser, Torsten Möller, Rick Brownrigg)

04/2013   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session SC2/NP1.6 "Short Course: Nonlinear Time Series Analysis" (with Jonathan Donges)

10/2012   Third International Conference on Data Analysis and Modelling in Earth Sciences DAMES 2012

04/2012   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP4.1 "Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences - Concepts, Methods & Applications" (with Susana Barbosa)

04/2012   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP2.6 "Complex networks: Theory and methods applied to geophysical systems" (with Jürgen Kurths, Tobias Heckmann, Wolfgang Schwanghart, Reinhard G. Budich, Per Nyberg, Karsten Steinhaeuser)

04/2012   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session SC2/NP1.6 "Short Course: Nonlinear Time Series Analysis" (with Jonathan Donges)

04/2011   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP4.1 "Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences - Concepts, Methods & Applications" (with Susana Barbosa)

04/2011   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP2.3/AS4.20/CL4.6/GM2.7/HS12.9 "Modelling and Understanding Geophysical Systems as Complex Networks" (with Jürgen Kurths, Wolfgang Schwanghart and Tobias Heckmann)

09/2010   Second International Conference on Data Analysis and Modelling in Earth Sciences DAMES 2010 (with Susana Barbosa and others)

05/2010   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP4.1 "Open Session on Geoscientific Time Series Analysis" (with Susana Barbosa)

05/2010   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP2.5 "Modelling and Understanding Geophysical Systems as Complex Networks" (with Jürgen Kurths)

04/2009   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP4.1 "Open Session on Geoscientific Time Series Analysis" (with Susana Barbosa and Jiri Miksovsky)

04/2009   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP2.5 "Modelling and Understanding Geophysical Systems as Complex Networks" (with Jürgen Kurths)

09/2008   First International Workshop on Data Analysis and Modelling in Earth Sciences DAMES 2008 (with Susana Barbosa, Jürgen Kurths and others)

04/2008   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP4.1 "Nonlinear Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences" (with Susana Barbosa)

04/2007   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP4.1 "Nonlinear Methods of Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences" (with Susana Barbosa)

04/2006   EGU General Assembly Vienna, Session NP4.1 "Geoscientific Data Analysis with Techniques Originated in Nonlinear Dynamics" (with Annette Witt)

 

Referee Services (Journals, Publishers and Funding Agencies)

  • Applied Physics A (2)
  • International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (3)
  • Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (12)
  • Climate Dynamics (8)
  • Physica A (9)
  • European Physical Journal B (5)
  • Physica D (2)
  • Chaos (15)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2)
  • European Physical Journal - Special Topics (3)
  • Europhysics Letters (2)
  • Physics Letters A (9)
  • Climate of the Past (1)
  • Scientific Research (1)
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (1)
  • PLoS Computational Biology (1)
  • Environment and Planning B (1)
  • Quaternary Geochronology (1)
  • Climatic Change (1)
  • Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences (1)
  • PLoS One (1)
  • Tellus A (1)
  • Pattern Recognition in Physics (1)
  • Entropy (6)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (1)
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (2)
  • International Journal of Modern Physics C (1)
  • Environmental Modelling and Software (1)
  • Belgian Science Policy Office (project proposals) (1)
  • International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation (1)
  • Cambridge University Press (book proposals) (1)
  • Geographical Analysis (1)
  • Springer (book chapters) (1)
  • Quaternary Research (1)
  • Nature Scientific Reports (2)
  • Chaos, Solitons & Fractals (1)
  • Climate (1)
  • Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (1)
  • Mathematical Geosciences (1)

 

Personal Membership in Professional Societies

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) - since 2004

European Geosciences Union (EGU) - since 2005

American Geophysical Union (AGU) - since 2009

 

 

Last modification: March 26, 2015 (incomplete edits: 30 December 2020)