Sergej Flach

Sergej Flach
Alma materTU Dresden
AwardsStefanos Pnevmatikos International Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow (Sonderstipendiat), Prize of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter, photonics, statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos
InstitutionsInstitute for Basic Science
Doctoral advisorsJürgen Schreiber, Paul Ziesche
Other academic advisorsNikolay Plakida, Wolfgang Götze, Chuck Willis
WebsiteIBS Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems

Sergej Flach is a theoretical physicist whose research has spanned a number of scientific fields in his career. With about 240 publications to his name, his research has been cited over 16,000 times giving him an h-index of 58 and i10-index of 174. He is a member of the American Physical Society, German Physical Society, Korean Physical Society, and New Zealand Institute of Physics. He is an editorial board member of Chaos (2016-) and was an editorial board member of Physical Review E (2009–2011).

He is the founding director of the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), a professor at the University of Science and Technology, and an honorary research fellow at the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study in Massey University.