Michael Kastner cv

Born: 09 November 1970 in Nürnberg, Germany
Citizenship: German
Civil status: married, two children

Chief Researcher at the National Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Professor at Stellenbosch University.

2007–2009	Privatdozent at the Department of Physics of the Universität Bayreuth, Germany
2004–2007	Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (Assistant Professor) in the group of Prof. Dr. Helmut Büttner at the Department of Physics of the Universität Bayreuth, Germany
2001–2004	Post-doc with Prof. Roberto Livi in the Dynamics of Complex Systems group at the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia in Florence, Italy, funded by the LOCNET project of the European Commission
1997–2001	Research and teaching assistant in the theoretical physics group of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Alfred Hüller at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

May 2007	Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at the Universität Bayreuth, Germany
1998–2000	Doctorate in physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Alfred Hüller. Thesis on Critical phenomena in the entropy formalism and microcanonical finite-size scaling
1992–1997	Studies in physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and the Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh, UK. Diploma with a thesis on Magnetic properties of finite spin systems in various formalisms of statistical physics

2009	Recognized as B-rated researcher by the National Research Foundation of South Africa
2007	Research prize of the Emil-Warburg-foundation

2012	DRD Travel Grant (15,000 Rand)
2012	DRD Research Visit Grant (15,000 Rand)
2012	Conference Grant from the European Science Foundation for an ESF conference on Energy Landscapes (with Prof. D. Wales, Cambridge, and Dr. L. Casetti, Florence; 40,000€ plus infrastructure)
2011–2015	Incentive Funding for Rated Researchers, granted by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (400,000 Rand)
2010	Incentive Funding for Rated Researchers, granted by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (80,000 Rand)
2009–2012	Funding of the project Dynamics and quasi-stationary states of the spherical model with long-range interactions by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Einzelförderung im Normalverfahren, one PhD position for 3 years)
2004–2006	Funding of the project Topological Approach to Phase Transitions by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Einzelförderung im Normalverfahren, 3,000€)

07/2012	Co-organizing (with Prof. D. Wales, Cambridge, and Dr. L. Casetti, Florence) an ESF conference on Energy Landscapes in Obergurgl, Austria
03/2011	Organizing an international workshop on Equilibration and Equilibrium at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch, South Africa
03/2010	Co-organizer (with Prof. A. Hartmann, Oldenburg, Prof. A. Heuer, Münster, Dr. M. Weigel, Mainz) of a symposium on Energy Landscapes in Dynamics and Statistical Physics: Glasses, Biomolecules, and Clusters as part of the spring meeting of the German Physical Society, Regensburg, Germany
2009–2010	Member of the Advisory Editors Board of Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
11/2009	Organizing an international workshop on Long-range interactions in Classical and Quantum Physics at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Here you find a list of the courses I have given. For more information and teaching material see here.

As a lecturer/professor:

3rd term 2012	Dynamical systems and complexity
3rd term 2011	Relativistic quantum mechanics
3rd term 2010	Relativistic quantum mechanics
3rd term 2009	Relativistic quantum mechanics
Winter 2009	Theoretical physics V: Quantum mechanics II
Summer 2008	Geometric concepts in classical and quantum physics
Winter 2007	Dynamical Systems and chaos theory
Summer 2007	Theoretical physics IV: Thermodynamics and statistical physics
Winter 2006	Modern methods and exact results in statistical physics
Summer 2006	Theory of phase transitions
Winter 2005	Theoretical physics V: Quantum mechanics II
Winter 2004	Chaos

As a teaching assistant:

Summer 2005	Thermodynamics and statistics
Winter 2004	Quantum mechanics II
Summer 2004	Quantum mechanics I
Winter 2000	Electrodynamics and field theory
Summer 2000	Quantum mechanics II
Winter 1999	Classical mechanics
Summer 1999	Introductory theoretical physics
Winter 1998	Bose-Einstein condensation
Summer 1998	Monte Carlo-methods in statistical physics
Winter 1997	Electrodynamics and field theory
Summer 1997	Quantum mechanics II
Winter 1996	Classical mechanics

Extracurricular:

August 2008