Curriculum Vitae




Education since Sept. 2005
Postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)

May 2004 - Sept. 2005
Postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

May 2004 PhD in Theoretical Physics
Dissertation: Statistical Physics of Dynamical Networks and Morphogenesis

July 2000 Diploma (masters degree) in Physics
Thesis: Networks and Self-organized Criticality

Oct. 1998 Vordiplom (undergraduate exam) in Biology

Oct. 1996 Vordiplom (undergraduate exam) in Physics
Research Interests
Statistical Physics, Biological pattern formation, Complex Networks
(structure, dynamics and evolution), Dynamics of gene regulation,
Self-organized Criticality, Genetic Algorithms and evolution of Cellular Automata
Selected Publications
T. Rohlf and C. Tsallis: Long-range memory elementary 1D cellular automata: Dynamics and nonextensivity. Submitted, preprint: cond-mat/0604459



T. Rohlf and S.Bornholdt:  Self-organized pattern formation and noise-induced control from particle computation. JSTAT (2005) L12001.

T. Rohlf and S. Bornholdt: Gene regulatory networks: A discrete model of dynamics and topological evolution,  in: Function and regulation of cellular systems: experiments and models, ed. A. Deutsch, Howard, J., Falcke, M. and Zimmermann, W., in press, Birkhäuser Verlag Basel, Basel.

T. Rohlf and S. Bornholdt: Criticality in Random Threshold Networks: Annealed Approximation and Beyond. Physica A 310, 245-259 (2002) 

S. Bornholdt and T. Rohlf: Topological Evolution of Dynamical Networks: Global Criticality from Local Dynamics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000), p. 6114 - 6117




Summer Universities / Workshops Sept. 1997 WE-Heraeus summer course "Selbstorganisation und Ordnung an Grenzflächen" (self-organization and order at boundary surfaces)

Oct. 1997 Summer University for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany (Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics)

June/July 2002 Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School , St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)

Oct. 2002 Summer-Course Physics of Cells of the German Physical Society, Bonn Bad Godesberg



Scholarships
PhD Scholarship granted by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation)

Postdoctoral Scholarship granted by the Max-Planck-Society, Germany
Professional Experience Aug. 2000 - Oct. 2000 Internship at Siemens Medical Technology,  Erlangen, Germany (Analysis of technological and economic potential of DNA Chips)

Nov. 2000 - July 2001 Software Development at PPI Financial Systems, Kiel (HBCI banking kernel project)
Teaching Experience Apr. 1998 - May 2000 Student assistant at "Practice of Nuclear Physics",
Institute for Experimental Physics, Kiel University
Computing Skills
UNIX, Linux, Windows, C/C++, Java, Fortran, LaTeX, SQL, rel. database design



Other activities
Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Dynamical Networks in Complex Systems, Kiel/Germany, July 25-27, 2001.

Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters A and Advances in Complex Systems
Professional Affiliations
Santa Fe Institute

Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI-MIS), Leipzig

Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, Leipzig University

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society)

 
 
 
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