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Personal Details
| Name | Thilo Gross |
| Date of birth | Feb, 15 1976 |
| Place of birth | Brake (Germany) |
| Nationality | German |
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Scientific Positions
| since July 2007 |
Leader of the group Dynamics of Biological Networks
Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
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| Apr 2006 - Jun 2007 |
Visiting research fellow, Department of chemical engineering
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
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| Jan 2005 - Mar 2006 |
Postdoctoral researcher, AG Nichtlineare Dynamik
University of Potsdam , Potsdam, Germany.
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| Aug 2004 - Dec 2004 |
Postdoctoral researcher, Theoretical physics/Complex systems, ICBM
Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany.
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| May 2001 - July 2004 |
Researcher, Theoretical physics/Complex systems, ICBM
Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany.
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Education and Qualifications
| May 2001 - July 2004 |
PhD in natural sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany.
Thesis: Population Dynamics: General Results from local analysis
Grade: summa cum laude
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| Sep 1998 - April 2001 |
Diplom (MSc equivalent) in physics, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany.
Thesis: Impact fusion as a detector for short-range scattering
Grade: sehr gut (first class)
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| Sep 1997 - July 1998 |
Bachelor of science in physics, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.
Thesis: Computer-generated Holograms
Grade: first class honours
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| Sep 1995 - July 1997 |
Vordiplom in physics, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany.
Grade: sehr gut (first class)
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| May 1995 |
Abitur (A-level equivalent),Jadegymnasium, Jaderberg, Germany.
Grade: 1.8 (best of year)
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Awards and Scholarships
| Scholarships |
Feodor Lynen Stipendiate of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2006-2008.
Member of the Network for Interdisciplinary Research, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany. 2006-2011.
PhD scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, 2001-2004.
Undergraduate scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, 1998-2001.
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| Awards |
Nomination for poster award , European conference on mathematical and theoretical biology, 2005.
Finalist , GKSS Award for understandable science (a nationwide competition open to all disciplines), 2004.
Red Sock Award , SIAM Conference on application of dynamical systems , 2003.
SIAM Student Travel Award , Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , 2003.
Bankleiter Award , Universitäsgesellschat Oldenburg, 2003.
Honorary award for extraordinary achievements in computer science , Jadegymnasium, 1995.
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Selected recent presentations
| Invited Talks |
Computer science and applied math seminar, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, 2009.
Biological Colloquium, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, 2008.
Invited Lecture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2008.
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| Conferences |
Invited presentation, International workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computation, Velingrad, Bulgaria, 2009.
Invited presentation, Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Medicine and Engineering, Valencia, Spain, 2008.
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| Schools |
Sapporo winterschool, Sapporo, Japan, 2009.
SysBioMed summerschool, Tenerife, Spain, 2008.
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Professional Activities
| Refereeing |
American Naturalist
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Chaos
Chinese Physics Letters
Ecological Complexity
Ecology Letters
European Physics Letters
European Physics Journal B,E,ST
Journal of Biological Systems
Journal of Physics A
Journal of Theoretical Biology
Mathematical Modeling of Natural Phenomena
New Journal of Physics
Nonlinearity
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Theoretical Ecology
Theoretical Population Biology
Physica A,D
Physical Review A,E
Physical Review Letters
Physics Letters A
Pramana
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Zhejiang University Science A
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| Organization of Events |
Workshop on Functioning and Failure of Adaptive Biological Networks, ZIF, Bielefeld, Germany, 2009.
Symposium Data Analysis in complex Networks, DPG Spring Meeting of the condensed matter section, Dresden, Germany, 2009.
MPIPKS Seminar Biologically inspired network in science and Technlogy (BioNet08), MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany, 2008.
Workshop on Epidemics in Evolving Networks (EEN07), MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany, 2007.
Minisymposium MS 94 Adaptive Networks, SIAM Conference on application of dynamical systems, Snowbird, UT, 2007.
1st Stanislaw Lem workshop on evolution, Lviv, Ukraine, 2005.
Minisymposium MS 49 Dynamics of biological populations, SIAM Conference on application of dynamical systems, Snowbird, UT, 2005.
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| Other Honors |
Member of Advisory Board ANIPLA EcoBioSys Conference, 2009.
Reviewer for proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation of Georgia, 2009.
Reviewer of Book proposals submitted to Springer, 2009.
Scientific Expert at the Science Movie Festival, Potsdam, Germany, 2005.
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