Prof. Christian Beck
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I am Head of the
newly created Centre for Complex Systems (union of old DSSP and CS group)
at Queen Mary.
For 6 years (2017-2022) I was Chair of the
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division
of the European Physical Society (EPS).
In 2023 I was elected to the Executive Committee of EPS. This is the highest gremium of EPS working directly with the EPS president.
From 2021-2023 I was Alan Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute.
I am also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
I am on the Editorial Board of
Scientific Reports, and currently I am
also an Advisory Editor of
Physica A and on the Editoral Board of the journal Entropy.
Research | Publications | Editorial Membership | Teaching | Other Activities | Personal |
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Some further topics I am interested in:
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Coupled Map Lattices and Spatio-Temporal Chaos
---Statistics of Lagrangian quantum turbulence
---Thermodynamic Formalism of Dynamical Systems
---Nonequilibrium phenomena
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Generalized statistical mechanics methods for complex systems
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Superstatistics
--- environmental time series, air pollution statistics, traffic delay statistics
--- Brownian motion, Langevin processes, nonequilibrium situations
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Fully Developed Turbulence
---Stochastic processes on networks
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Chaotic scalar fields, dynamical models of vacuum fluctuations
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Possible measurable effects of dark energy and dark matter in superconducting devices
---dark matter axions
---extreme event statistics
---stochastic volatility in mathematical finance
---(anomalous) diffusion of biomolecules in living cells
---water quality in rivers
In total my scientific work has been cited more than 9800 times (view my Google Scholar profile)
Information for prospective PhD students
postdocs:
--Dr Evangelos Mitsokapas (working on statistical analysis of airplane delays), 2023
--Dr Pau Rabassa (working on superstatistical methods in
the context of flooding and flood risk managementa),
until 2015
--Dr Randall Martyr (working on load balancing problems in electricity markets), until 2019
--Dr Benjamin Schaefer (Marie Curie Fellow) (working on power grid dynamics and data-driven approaches to complex systems), until June 2021. He is now at KIT Karlsruhe.
--Dr Evangelos Mitsokapas (2022/23, working on traffic delay statistics, jointly supervised with Rosemary Harris (UCL))
academic visitors:
--Dr Chris Penrose (working on rigorous aspects of superstatistical dynamical systems), until 2019
--Dr Cigdem Yalcin (working on superstatistical models and cosmic rays), 2019
PhD students:
Shihan Miah (working on quantum turbulence, PhD awarded in 2015)
Dan Xu (working on share price statistics, PhD awarded in 2017)
Griffin Williams (working on air pollution statistics, PhD awarded in 2019)
Jin Yan (working on coupled axion models and dynamical systems, PhD awarded in 2021, now at MPIPKS Dresden)
Hankun He (working on air pollution and water quality statistics, 4th year)
My 1st book (with F. Schloegl, Cambridge University Press, 1993)
(paperback edition 1995)
My 2nd book (World Scientific, 2002)
Here you can see it in more detail.
This has appeared in the
Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics of World Scientific.
Another book of which I am a co-editor (World Scientific, 2005) is on Complexity,
Metastability, and Nonextensive Methods.
As a previous chairman (2017-2022) of the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division I recommend that you submit the occasional paper to EPL
I am also an Advisory Editor of
PHYSICA A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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