Karin Andrea Sabine Dahmen (born 1969)[1] is a German condensed matter physicist whose research interests include non-equilibrium thermodynamics, critical phenomena, crackling noise, pattern formation, and quenched disorder, with wide applications of these topics to phenomena such as earthquakes, avalanches, variable stars, and population dynamics. She is a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[2]

Education and career edit

After earning a degree in physics at the University of Bonn, Dahmen completed a Ph.D. in physics at Cornell University in 1995. She was a Harvard Junior Fellow from 1995 until 1999, when she took a faculty position at the University of Illinois.[2]

Recognition edit

In 2013, Dahmen was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination by the APS Topical Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics, "for establishment and exploring the deep connections between non-equilibrium phase transitions and avalanche phenomena in diverse fields encompassing materials, geophysics and neuroscience".[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Full name and birth year from WorldCat Identities, retrieved 2020-07-07
  2. ^ a b "Karin A Dahmen", Directory, University of Illinois Physics, retrieved 2020-07-07
  3. ^ APS Fellows Nominated by GSNP: 2013, APS Topical Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics, retrieved 2020-07-07

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