Prof. Dr. Werner Krauth

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsStatistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics,Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
KeywordsTheoretical Physics, Statistical Physics, Phase Transitions, Correlated Electrons, Computational Physics
Honours and awards

2018: Gay Lussac-Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2017: Martin Gutzwiller Fellowship, Max Planck Institute (MPIPKS) Dresden (Germany)

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityParis
InstitutionEcole Normale Superieure de Paris (ENS)
InstituteLaboratoire de Physique

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Roderich MoessnerDepartment Condensed Matter, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2018

Programme(s)

2017Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Krauth is an outstandingly creative and versatile computational physicist. His contributions focus on classical and quantum many-body physics, but also extend to high-energy physics. He invented new computational schemes combining physical intuition and algorithmic originality. This has frequently put him in a position to ask new questions, and to resolve long-standing open issues. In Germany, one of the central research objectives will be the efficient simulation of charged systems with long-range interactions.