Place of Birth
Brünn, Czechoslovakia

Date of Birth
11. April 1945

Nationality
German

Status
Married, two daughters

2000
Titular Professor of Physics at the University of Basel

1984
Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel

1979
Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Stuttgart

1972
Diploma in Physics

1967 - 1972
Study of Physics at the University of Stuttgart

1965 - 1967
Study of Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart

since April 2019
retired

June 2002 - March 2019
Senior Scientist at the Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg

2000 - April 2002
Senior Scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute

1995 - 1999
Head of the Section Stochastic Systems at the Paul Scherrer Institute

1989 - 1994
Head of the Section Systems Analysis at the Paul Scherrer Institute

1981 - 1989
Research Assistant with Prof. Thomas in Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel

1977 - 1980
Research Assistant with Prof. Weidlich in Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart

1970 - 1977
Teacher in Physics at the Chemisches Institut Dr. Flad in Stuttgart

September 2019
Visiting Professor at PCS IBS, Daejeon, Korea

March 2015
Visiting Professor, APCTP, Pohang, Korea

October, November 2014
Humboldt Fellow, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland

January, February 2014
Visiting Professor, APCTP, Pohang, Korea

June - August 2013
APCTP Scholar, Pohang, Korea

May 2013
Visiting Professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

November 2001
Visiting Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

March 2001
Visiting Professor, Institute of Physics, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland

May 1998
Visiting Professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

March 1997
Visiting Professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

July 1995
Visiting Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

May - July 1993
Visiting Professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (DPG)

March 1992
Visiting Professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

March 1986
Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, USA

April 1985
Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, USA

American Physical Society

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft

European Physical Society

International Scientific Committee of the XXIVth International School of Theoretical Physics, Ustron, Poland, September 25 - October 1, 2000

International Scientific Committee of the XIVth Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, September 9 - 14,2001

Steering Committee of the ESF program "Stochastic Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications'' 2003-2008

International Scientific Committee of the XVIth Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, September 9-14, 2003

Board member and Secretary of the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division of the European Physical Society, 2009-2011

Scientific coordination of the International Workshop on Noise in Non-Equilibrium Systems: From Physics to Biology, Max Planck Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany, April 11-14, 2011

Member of the Evaluation Panel: Exact Sciences & Engineering 2012, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT-Portugal

Member of the Academia Europaea 2017

Organizer of ACTP-KIAS Workshop on Motors and Engines, Seoul, Korea, June 25 - 27, 2018

Member of the Evaluation Panel: Exact Sciences & Engineering 2019, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT-Portugal

Scientific coordinator of the International Workshop on Open Quantum Dynamics and Thermodynamics, IBS, PCS, Daejeon, Korea, March 30 - April 3, 2020

Outstanding Referee of the Journals of the American Physical Society, 2008

Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2009

AP Scholar, Asia Pacific Center of Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Korea, Juni - August 2013

Honorary Polish Humboldt Fellow, 2014-2016

New Trends in Kramers Reaction Theory,
edited by P. Talkner and P. Hänggi, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1995.

Dynamical Processes in Condensed Phases,
Chem. Phys. 235, Nos. 1-3 (1998), Special issue,
Guest Editors: P. Talkner, E. Pollak, A.M. Berezhkovskii.

Editorial Board of Physical Review E

Brownian Motion and Diffusion in the 21st Century
New J. Phys. 7 (2005)
Guest Editors: P. Hänggi, J. Luczka, P. Talkner.

Dynamics of Molecular Systems: From Quantum to Classical
Chem. Phys. 370, Nos. 1-3 (2010), Special Issue,
Guest Editors: J. Shao, J. Ankerhold, P. Talkner.

Stochastic Processes in Physics ans Chemistry
Chem. Phys. 375, Nos. 2-3 (2010), Special Issue,
Guest Editors: I. Goychuk, P. Jung, S. Kohler, G. Schmid, P. Talkner.

Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports, 2014-2015.