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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Theoretical Physics,Biophysics,Theoretical Chemistry: Electron Structure, Dynamics, Simulation |
| Keywords | Anomalous diffusion, dynamics of complex systems, Biodynamics: genetic switches, active transport, Biopolymers: Knots, DNA denaturation, Gene regulation, macromolecular crowding, Lévy statistics, fractional dynamical equations |
| Honours and awards | 2023: Heilbronn Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Cambridge University 2022: APCTP Distinguished fellow (Senior Advisory Group Scientist) 2020: Associate, Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh 2018: Humboldt Honorary Polish Research Scholarship, Foundation for Polish Science 2017: SigmaPhi Prize in Statistical Physics 2010: Finland Distinguished Professorship, Academy of Finland 2006: Canada Research Chair in Biological Physics 2000: DFG Emmy Noether fellowship 1998: Feodor Lynen Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung 1998: MINERVA postdoc fellowship |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Potsdam |
| Institution | Universität Potsdam |
| Institute | Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik |
| Homepage | www.agnld.uni-potsdam.de/~metz/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Joseph Klafter | School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/1998 |
Programme(s)
| 1997 | Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2001 | Ralf Metzler: Anomalous stochastic processes in the fractional dynamics framework: Fokker-Planck equation, dispersive transport, and non-exponential relaxation. In: Adv. Chem. Phys., 2001, 223-264 |
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| 2001 | Ralf Metzler: Non-homogeneous random walks, generalised master equations, fractional Fokker-Planck equations, and the generalised Kramers-Moyal expansion. In: Europ. Phys. J. B, 2001, 249-258 |
| 2000 | Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter: Accelerating Brownian motion: a fractional dynamics approach to fast diffusion. In: Europhys. Lett., 2000, 492-498 |
| 2000 | Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter: Boundary value problems for fractional diffusion equations. In: Physica A, 2000, 107-125 |
| 2000 | Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter: From a generalized Chapman-Kolmogorov equation to the fractional Klein-Kramers equation. In: J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, 3851-3857 |
| 2000 | Eli Barkai, Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter: From continuous time random walks to the fractional Fokker-Planck equation. In: Phys. Rev. E, 2000, 132-138 |
| 2000 | Ralf Metzler, Albert Compte: Generalized diffusion-advection schemes and dispersive sedimentation: a fractional approach. In: J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, 3858-3865 |
| 2000 | Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter: Kramers' escape problem with anomalous kinetics: non-exponential decay of the survival probability. In: Chem. Phys. Lett., 2000, 238-242 |
| 2000 | Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter: Subdiffusive transport close to thermal equilibrium: From the Langevin equation to fractional diffusion. In: Phys. Rev. E, 2000, 6308-6311 |
| 2000 | Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter: The fractional Fokker-Planck equation: dispersive transport in an external force field. In: J. Mol. Liq., 2000, 219-228 |
| 2000 | Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter: The random walk's guide to anomalous diffusion: a fractional dynamics approach. In: Phys. Rep., 2000, 1-77 |
| 1999 | Ralf Metzler, Eli Barkai, Joseph Klafter: Anomalous diffusion and relaxation close to thermal equilibrium: a fractional Fokker-Planck equation approach. In: Phys. Rev. Lett., 1999, 3563-3567 |
| 1999 | Ralf Metzler, Eli Barkai, Joseph Klafter: Anomalous transport in disordered systems under the influence of external fields. In: Physica A, 1999, 343-350 |
| 1999 | Ralf Metzler, Eli Barkai, Joseph Klafter: Deriving fractional Fokker-Planck equations from a generalised master equation. In: Europhys. Lett., 1999, 431-436 |
| 1999 | Sune Jespersen, Ralf Metzler, Hans C. Fogedby: Levy flights in external force fields: Langevin and fractional Fokker-Planck equations and their solutions. In: Phys. Rev. E, 1999, 2736-2745 |
| 1999 | Ralf Metzler, A. Compte: Stochastic foundation of normal and anomalous Cattaneo-type transport. In: Physica A, 1999, 454-468 |
| 1998 | Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter, Igor M. Sokolov: Anomalous transport in external fields: continuous time random walks and fractional diffusion equations extended. In: Phys. Rev. E, 1998, 1621-1633 |
| 1998 | Ralf Metzler, Theo F. Nonnenmacher: Fractional diffusion, waiting time distributions and Cattaneo-type equations. In: Phys. Rev. E, 1998, 6409-6414 |
| 1998 | Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter, Joshua Jortner, Martin Volk: Multiple Time Scales for dispersive kinetics in early events of peptide folding. In: Chem. Phys. Lett., 1998, 477-484 |