Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences

Bodenschatz, Eberhard, Prof. Dr.

Professor of Physics, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization


  • 1985 Diploma in Physics, Minor: Polymer Chemistry, University of Bayreuth
  • 1989 Doctoral Thesis in Theoretical Physics, University of Bayreuth
  • 1989 -1992 Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Physics, UCSB, USA
  • 1992 -1998 Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University, USA
  • 1995 Visiting Professor at the MPI For Polymer Research, Mainz
  • 1998 -2002 Associate Professor of Physics, Cornell University, USA
  • 1999 - 2000 Visiting Scholar, University of California at San Diego, USA
  • 2003 -2005 Full Professor of Physics, Cornell University, USA
  • Since 2003 Director, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
  • Since 2005 Adj. Professor, Physics, Cornell University (CU), Ithaca (NY), USA
  • Since 2005 Adj. Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CU, USA
  • Since 2007 Full Professor of Physics, University of Göttingen, Germany
  • 2014 – 2017 Chair of the CPTS - Member of the Senate of the MPS, Germany



Major Research Interests

We focus on the physics of dynamics and self-organisation in nature with special attention to Bottom Up Synthetic Biology, Bio-engineering and Medical Physics, Physical Biodynamics, the Physics of Clouds and Atmospheres and of Turbulence. Current topics include synthetic engineering of bio-synthetic cilia, electrical turbulence and the soft mechanics of muscle contraction in the heart, cilia-based directed transport networks in the ventricles of the mammalian brain, and understanding fully developed turbulent flows (inertial/convective simple and complex fluids).


Homepage Department/Research Group

http://www.lfpn.ds.mpg.de/



Selected Recent Publications


  • Raj Kumar Sadhu, Marine Luciano, Wang Xi, Cristina Martinez-Torres, Marcel Schröder, Christoph Blum, Marco Tarantola, Stefano Villa, Samo Penič, Aleš Iglič, Carsten Beta, Oliver Steinbock, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Benoît Ladoux, Sylvain Gabriele, Nir S Gov (2024) A minimal physical model for curvotaxis driven by curved protein complexes at the cell’s leading edge, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 121, e2306818121

  • Mira L Pöhlker, Christopher Pöhlker, Ovid O Krüger, Jan-David Förster, Thomas Berkemeier, Wolfgang Elbert, Janine Fröhlich-Nowoisky, Ulrich Pöschl, Gholamhossein Bagheri, Eberhard Bodenschatz, J Alex Huffman, Simone Scheithauer, Eugene Mikhailov (2023) Respiratory aerosols and droplets in the transmission of infectious diseases, Review of Modern Physics 95, 45001

  • Yunxiao Zhang, Moritz Kalhöfer-Köchling, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Yong Wang (2024) Physical model of end-diastolic and end-systolic pressure-volume relationships of a heart, Frontiers in Physiology 14,195502

  • Christian Küchler, Gregory P Bewley, Eberhard Bodenschatz (2023) Universal velocity statistics in decaying turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 024001

  • Gholamhossein Bagheri, Birte Thiede, Bardia Hejazi, Oliver Schlenczek, Eberhard Bodenschatz (2021) An upper bound on one-to-one exposure to infectious human respiratory particles Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 118, e2110117118