Organisers
Burkhard Duenweg
Burkhard Duenweg has a background in theoretical physics, in particular computational statistical mechanics. He obtained his diploma in 1987, his PhD in 1991, and his "Habilitation" in 2000 (all University of Mainz, Germany, where he was appointed Adjunct Professor in 2008). Since 1996 he works as a Senior Staff Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz. External stays include his postdoc time 1991-1993, Center for Simulational Physics, Athens, Georgia, USA (funded by the Humboldt Foundation), interim professorships in Saarbruecken (2005) and Darmstadt (2014/15), and (currently) a part-time professorship at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. From 2004-2013 he worked as an Associate Editor for Physical Review E (polymer physics, computational physics). In 2010 he was appointed director of the SMSM CECAM node. His research interests focus mainly on polymer dynamics, colloid dynamics, and electrokinetics, with emphasis on hydrodynamic interactions and simulation method development (Lattice Boltzmann, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo).
Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan
Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan has a background in chemical engineering and rheology. He obtained his BTech (1981) at IIT Madras, his MS (1984) at the University of Akron, Ohio, and his PhD (1989) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He worked as postdoc or staff scientist at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India (1990-1991), at University of Cambridge (1991-1993), and ETH Zurich (1993-1994), after which he became Associate Professor at IIT Madras (1994-2001) and Monash University, Melbourne (2001-2012, when he was promoted to Full Professor). In 1999-2000 he stayed in Kaiserslautern, Germany, as a Humboldt Fellow, and currently holds a visiting professorship in the Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK. From 2006-2008, he was President of the Australian Society of Rheology. Since 2008, he works as an Editor for the Korea-Australia Rheology Journal. His research focuses on molecular aspects of polymer rheology, with emphasis on Brownian Dynamics simulations.
Ignacio Pagonabarraga
Ignacio Pagonabarraga is Professor in Condensed Matter Physics in the Department of Fundamental Physics at the University of Barcelona. He graduated in Physics from Universitat de Barcelona where he also obtained a PhD in Physics. He has performed postdoctoral stays at Institute Amolf in Amsterdam, in the group of Prof. D. Frenkel and at the University of Edinburgh in the group of Prof. M.E. Cates. He has published over 140 papers in international journals which have received more than 2900 citations. He has been appointed visiting or invited professor at the Université Paris-Sud, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Technical University of Berlin, Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, USA. He is Associate Editor of the journal EPJE-soft matter and biological physics since 2012. He is currently the Director of CECAM.