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Contributing Scientists

This page lists researchers at the University of Cologne that contribute to the Competence Area 3, as well as their fields of research (including topical and methodological keywords). Please note that the list is work in progress!

CA3 is open to all interested researchers, please contact the coordinator in case you wish to join.

Name

Homepage

Field of Research

Keywords (Topics)

Keywords (Methods)

Andreas Beyer

cellnet-sb.cecad.uni-koeln.de

Cellular Networks and Systems Biology

Ageing research, oncology, systems genetics

Machine learning, network biology

Dirk Blunk

www.oc.uni-koeln.de/blunk/

Organic chemistry

 

 

Susanne Crewell

www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/crewell.html

Meteorology

Remote Sensing

 

Silvia Daun

www.zoologie.uni-koeln.de/daun.html

Zoology

 

 

Rainer Dyckerhoff

www.wisostat.uni-koeln.de

Econometrics, statistics

 

 

Gregor Gassner

www.mi.uni-koeln.de/NumSim/

Mathematics: Numerical Simulation

 

 

Bernd Goldfuß

www.uni-koeln.de/goldfuss/

Organic chemistry

 

 

David Gross

www.thp.uni-koeln.de/gross/

Quantum information, mathematical physics

 

 

Michael Hanrath

www.tc.uni-koeln.de/people/hanrath/

Theoretical chemistry

 

 

Jürgen Hermes

dh.uni-koeln.de/jhermes.html

Digital Humanities

Computational linguistics

Machine learning, text mining

Dominik Hezel

www.geologie.uni-koeln.de/1848.html

Geo-/cosmochemistry

 

 

Sandro Jahn

www.geologie.uni-koeln.de/2373.html

Mineralogy/crystallography

Computational mineral physics, geological fluids, fluid-rock interactions at high pressures and temperatures

Molecular dynamics simulation, density-functional theory, theoretical spectroscopy and thermodynamics

Michael Jünger

informatik.uni-koeln.de/ls-juenger/

Computer Science

 

 

Wolfgang Ketter

www.is3.uni-koeln.de

Information Systems for Sustainable Society

 

 

Axel Klawonn

www.numerik.uni-koeln.de

Numerical mathematics and scientific computing

 

 

Stefan Kneifel

www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/space-and-planets1.html

Meteorology

Charakterisierung der Streueigenschaften von Schnee- und Eispartikeln in Wolken, Modellierung mikrophysikalischer Prozesse in Wolken, Wechselwirkung von Wolkenmikrophysik auf großräumige Wolkeneigenschaften

Diskrete Dipol-Approximation (DDA) und Entwicklung von Näherungen für die Streurechnungen, Hochaufgelöste Simulationen mit dem neuen Vorhersagemodell ICON

Pavlos Kollias

www.portal.uni-koeln.de/12064.html

Meteorology

 

 

Sigrun Korsching

www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/genetik/groups/Korsching/index.html

Genetics

 

Phylogeny, Receptor/Ligand modelling

Ulrich Lang

vis.uni-koeln.de

Computer Science

 

 

Brigitte Mathiak

cceh.uni-koeln.de

Digital Humanities

 

 

Martin Nawrot

www.zoologie.uni-koeln.de/nawrot.html , twitter.com/nawrot_group

Zoology

Computational Neuroscience, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Learning and Memory, Primate Motor Control

Spiking neural networks, neuronal attractor networks, deep architectures, multivariate spike train statistics, mean field theory, neurophysiology

Roel Neggers

www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/1864.html

Meteorology

 

 

Claes Neuefeind

www.spinfo.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/24634.html

Linguistic data processing

Computational linguistics

Machine learning, artificial intelligence

Eleftheria Paliou

archaeoinformatik.uni-koeln.de

Archäologie

Archäoinformatik/computational archeology

complex systems simulation, agent-based modelling, network analysis (social network analysis and spatial network analysis), spatio-temporal modelling with R

Eric Parteli

www.geosciences.uni-koeln.de/compgeoteam.html

Geosciences

granular geomaterials, planetary geomorphology, desertification

Discrete-Element-Methods, continuum geomorphic modeling, statistical physics

Felix Rau

ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/rau.html

General linguistics

Audio-visual data analysis, linguistics

Machine learning

Achim Rosch

www.thp.uni-koeln.de/rosch/

Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Topological and correlated quantum matter, magnetic skyrmions, quantum systems far from thermal equilibrium

Quantum field theory, numerical simulations of quantum and classical systems using exact diagonalization, Landau-Lifshitz equations, Monte Carlo approaches, Langevin equations.

Joachim Saur

www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/space-and-planets.html

Space Physics

 

 

Andreas Schadschneider

www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~as/

Theoretical Physics, Statistical Physics

Nonequilibrium physics, stochastic processes, traffic, pedestrian dynamics

Modeling of complex systems, agent-based modeling, Monte Carlo simulation

Martin Scheffel

cmr.uni-koeln.de

Macroeconomics

 

 

Peter Schilke

astro.uni-koeln.de/schilke.html

Astrophysics

Analysis of astrophysical data

Exploration of Machine Learning methods for automatic source classification

Yaping Shao

www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/171.html

Meteorology

 

 

Christian Sohler

cs.uni-koeln.de/ls-sohler

Algorithmische Datenanalyse

 

 

Simon Trebst

www.thp.uni-koeln.de/trebst/

Computational Physics

 

 

Achim Tresch

imsieweb.uni-koeln.de

Medizinische Statistik und Bioinformatik

Analysis of genome-wide data, regulation of gene expression, RNA metabolism

nonparametric methods for high dimensional data, probabilistic graphical models

Frank Vallentin

www.mi.uni-koeln.de/opt/

Mathematics

Optimization, geometry, discrete mathematics

 

Sacha van Albada

www.fz-juelich.de/inm/inm-6/EN/Forschung/TheoNeuroana/artikel.html;jsessionid=25B87597D27EE11BA362D76D411648F1

Theoretical Neuroanatomy

 

 

Stefanie Walch

hera.ph1.uni-koeln.de/~walch/Steffi_Walchs_homepage/Main.html

Theoretical Astrophysics

 

 

Lex Wennmacher

www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/wennmacher.html

Space Physics

 

 

Thomas Wiehe

www.bioinf-popgen.uni-koeln.de/wiehe-research.html

Bioinformatics & Population Genetics

Bioinformatics & Population Genetics

Mathematical modeling, simulations

Roman Wienands

www.mi.uni-koeln.de/~wienands/

Numerical mathematics

 

 

Andreas Zilges

www.ikp.uni-koeln.de/groups/zilges/

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear structure, Nuclear Astrophysics, Nuclear photonics, detector development

Monte Carlo simulations of complex experimental setups for basic research and applications