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Jörn Dunkel Associate Professor Physical Applied Mathematics Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Office    2-381 Tel        +1 (617) 253-7826 Fax       +1 (617) 253-4358 Email     dunkel "at" math.mit.edu Some recent articles news & views: active sound waves Nature Materials 2018 MIT news: twisted fracture PNAS 2018 MIT news: cell lineage tree packings Nature Physics 2018 walking shells PRL 2018 chained active turbulence on spheres PRL 2018 triads in active turbulence JFM 2018 compressible active flow networks PRL 2017 tissue folding requires myosin gradients Development 2017 active matter logic Nature Commun 2017 active mirror-symmetry breaking PNAS 2017 active flow networks PNAS 2016 elastic surface crystals PRL 2016 3D biofilm architecture PNAS 2016 MIT news: bacterial spin lattices Nature Physics 2016 human sperm flagella in 3D PNAS 2015 mRNA transport in oocytes eLife 2015 MIT news: surface wrinkling Nature Materials 2015 news & views: Szilard engine Nature Physics 2014 MIT news: sperm swimming against the stream eLife 2014 MIT news: temperature positive Nature Physics 2014 Dates MIT Physical Mathematics Seminar   T 2:30-3:30 MIT Physical Maths Group Meeting   W 12:00-1:00 Physics Colloquium, Clark College   Jan 30 Computations in Science, Chicago   Feb 13 PACM Colloquium, Princeton   Feb 18 APS March Meeting, Boston   Mar 4-8 Applied Math Colloquium, NJIT   Apr 5 Mathematical design of new materials, Isaac Newton Institute   Jun 10-23 Links MIT biophysics MIT calendar DAMTP Adam Martin Anand Oza Eva-Maria S Collins Francis Woodhouse Hartmut Löwen Jeff Guasto John Bush Julia Yeomans Knut Drescher Miha Ravnik Pedro Reis Peter Hänggi Peter Talkner Ray Goldstein Rik Wensink Stas Shvartsman Vasily Kantsler Statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics HU Berlin Institute for Mathematics of the HU Berlin MIT mail MIT math mail Studienstiftung AlumniNet Christian Dunkel Werkzeugbau Juliane Dunkel Photography Einstein papers in "Annalen der Physik" CV   pdf since 2018 Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013-2018 Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010-2013 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge 2008-2010 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford 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 2017 APS Outstanding Referee 2016 Complex Systems Scholar Award, James S McDonnell Foundation 2015-2018 Edmund F Kelly Research Award, MIT Mathematics 2015-2017 Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow 2014-2016 Solomon Buchsbaum Fund Award, MIT 2011-2013 Research Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge 2011 Gustav Hertz Prize, German Physical Society (DPG) 2008-2010 Junior Research Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford 2008 Erich Krautz Prize, Universität Augsburg 2005 SCOR Actuarial Prize, SCOR Group & Universität Ulm 2004 Humboldt Prize, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 2004 Lise Meitner Prize, Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2001-2003 Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes top Last modified:   11 October 2018