Curriculum Vitae

My current activities:

"Physics and Mathematics in Musical Composition" by Kinko Tsuji and myself has been published. See https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-80732-9. This is a follow-up of a previous volume entitled "Physics and Music" (Springer Nature, 2021), which is just being translated to German.

In addition, I am editing a book "Understanding Marvelous Patterns in Complex Systems", to which many authors contribute with short articles.

Participation in an international project on mechanistic interrelationships between pattern formation in chemical precipitation processes (Liesegang rings) and in geology

Coworker of documentation of the historical evolution of research on oscillation and waves in chemical/physical systems

Title picture: the phase portrait of “Atmosphères” of György Ligeti (as if the music emits electric rays creating a vibrant hue of northern light in the atmosphere).

  • Name and Title:

    Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Stefan C. Müller

  • Current affiliation:

    Full professor at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Institute of Physics

  • Education:

    1967 Highschool diploma (Abitur) in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt

    Study of Physics at the Universities Göttingen and Toulouse

    1975 Diploma in Physics and

    1978 Doctor (Ph.D.) of Physics at the Göttingen University

  • Scientific activities:

    1979 Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology with John Ross

    1980-81 Postdoctoral Associate at Stanford University with John.Ross
    Work on chemical instabilities and nonlinear chemical reactions

    1982-95 Research assistant at the Max-Planck-Institut für Ernährungsphysiologie (now:  molekulare Physiologie) with Benno Hess
    Work on chemical and biological oscillations and spatial patterns, chemohydrodynamic instabilities

    1991 Habilitation in Physics at the Göttingen University

  • Professional career:

    1987-1995 Lectures and supervision of graduate and doctral students of Universities Göttingen, Dortmund and Bochum

    1995 Full professorship for Biophysics at the University Magdeburg

    1999-2002 Vice President of the Magdeburg University

    2003-2006 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science

    2003-2014 Head of Institute of Experimental Physics

    2003-2008 Representative for foreign students and personnel

    1996-2004 Member of the Ethics Commission

    Since 2015, group of “Pattern Formation and Self-organization”

    2015  VW-Symposium “Complexity and Synergetics”, Hannover

  • Awards and Fellowships:

    1991 Max-Planck-Forschungspreis (together with A.M. Zhabotinsky)

    1996 Guest professor at Mahidol University (Bangkok),
    Several Fellowships by Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Humboldt foundation for extended research activities

    Since 1996 frequent visits to Stanford University

  • Guest Professor:

    2016 with T. Sakurai at Chiba University, Faculty of Science
    (Chiba, Japan)

    2017  “Johann Gottfried Herder-Programm“ (DAAD) with Ch. Luengviria at Kasetsart University, Bangkok

  • Publications:

    14 books, about 300 articles

Link to the german version