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Jörn Dunkel MathWorks Professor 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" mit.edu Selected recent articles MIT news: butterfly scale formation Cell Rep Phys Sci 2024 biofilm elasticity Advanced Materials 2024 space-time transcriptomics Nature Microbiology 2023 nuclear wrinkling Nature Physics 2023 topological statistics of tissues Science Advances 2023 mode dynamics of undulatory locomotion PRL 2023 proliferating active matter Nature Reviews Physics 2023 MIT news: fast unknotting of worm tangles Science 2023 learning active matter hydrodynamics PNAS 2023 nematic bits and logic gates Science Advances 2022 MIT news: 4-bit logic for living materials Nature 2022 MIT news: odd living crystals Nature 2022 braiding fractional liquid crystal defects PRX 2022 learning developmental mode dynamics eLife 2021 entropy production from waiting times PRL 2021 braiding on the cell membrane PNAS 2021 active topolectrical circuits PNAS 2021 hydrodynamic spin lattices Nature 2021 entropy production in living systems PNAS 2021 MIT news: altruistic nurse cell dumping PNAS 2021 topological earth mover's distance PRL 2021 Dates MIT calendar MIT Physical Mathematics Seminar   T 2:30-3:30 MIT Physical Maths Group Meeting   Th 12:30-1:30 Links MIT biophysics DAMTP Rudolf Peierls Centre Adam Martin Anand Oza Francis Woodhouse Hartmut Löwen Jeff Guasto John Bush Julia Yeomans Knut Drescher Miha Ravnik Nikta Fakhri Pedro Reis Peter Hänggi Ray Goldstein Stas Shvartsman Vasily Kantsler Statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics HU Berlin Institute for Mathematics of the HU Berlin MIT mail MIT math mail MIT accessibility Studienstiftung AlumniNet CV   pdf since 2023 MathWorks Professor of Mathematics, MIT since 2022 Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT 2020-2022 Associate Professor with Tenure, MIT 2018-2020 Associate Professor, MIT 2013-2018 Assistant Professor, MIT 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 2023 Schmidt Science Polymath Award, Schmidt Futures 2020-2023 Robert E Collins Distinguished Scholar, MIT Mathematics 2017 APS Outstanding Referee 2016-2020 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 Last modified:   25 Jun 2024