Holger Waalkens

Dynamical Systems, Geometry and Mathematical Physics
Department of Mathematics
Bernoulli Institute
University of Groningen

Short CV

Holger Waalkens studied physics at the University of Oldenburg where he graduated in 1996. He received his PhD at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Bremen under the supervision of Peter H. Richter in 1999. After three postdoc years in Bremen he moved with a fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. In 2002 he spent six months as a postdoc at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. From 2003 to 2006 he was lecturer at the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. Since 2006 he is associate professor in mathematics at the Bernoulli Institute at the University of Groningen. His main fields of research are Hamiltonian systems and mathematical physics.

Co-Organization of Recent and Forthcoming Conferences and Workshops

• Geometry of Chemical Reaction Dynamics in Gas and Condensed Phases in Telluride, Colorado (17 July - 27 July 2018; with S. Berry, J. Green and H. Teramoto)
• Conference on Dynamical Systems and Mechanics at the Chern Institute, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (10-14 September 2018; with U. Frauenfelder and L. Zhao)
• Lorentz Center workshop Symplectic Dynamics in Leiden (8-12 April 2019; with U. Frauenfelder and L. Zhao)
• Minisymposium Integrable Hamiltonian Systems at Equadiff 2019 in Leiden (8-12 July 2019; with A. Bolsinov)
• Symposium Fundamentals of the Universe (24 September 2021; as member of the steering committee)
• Integrable Systems Symposium in Groningen (30 December 2023)

Committees and Memberships

• Head of the group Dynamical Systems, Geometry and Mathematical Physics
• Head of the Board of Examiners Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
• Head of the Curriculum Committee Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
• Secretary of the Bernoulli Stichting
• Steering Committee of Fundamentals of the Universe
• PhD Admission Committee Faculty of Science and Engineering
• NWO mathematics cluster NDNS+
• NWO mathematics cluster GQT
• Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap
• European Mathematical Society
• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft

PhD Students

• Robbert Scholtens (with M. Seri and R. van de Weijgaert, since 2022)
• Jhon Astoquillca Aguilar (with D. Valesin, since 2021)
• Dijs de Neeling (with M. Seri and D. Roest, defense 2024)
• Federico Zadra (with M. Seri, defense 2023)
• Bohuan Lin (with K. Efstathiou, defense 2023)
• Eric Pap (with D. Boer, defense 2022)
• Vladimír Krajňák (defense 2017)
• Mohammad Zaman (defense 2017)
• Ünver Çiftçi (defense 2013)
• Robert Hales (defense 2010)

Former Postdocs

• Hamed Ghane (now at IAU (Islamic Azad University), Iran)
• Arseni Goussev (now at Portsmouth University, UK)
• Gregory Morozov (now at the University of West Scotland, UK)

Master Students

• Daniel van Dijk (with D. Boer)
• Robbert Scholtens (with D. Boer)
• Gertjan Pomstra
• Eric Pap (with D. Boer)
• Klaas Hakvoort (with D. Roest)
• Bonnie Liefting (SDU, Denmark)
• Kristel Lok
• Derk Rouwhorst (with R. Timmermans)
• Leslie Zwerwer

Collaborators

• Daniël Boer (University of Groningen)
• Henk Broer (University of Groningen)
• Holger Dullin (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Konstantinos Efstathiou (Duke Kunshan University)
• Igor Hoveijn (University of Groningen)
• Christof Jung (UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico)
• Nikolay Martynchuk (University of Groningen)
• George Palasantzas (University of Groningen)
• Diederik Roest (University of Groningen)
• Roman Schubert (University of Bristol, UK)
• Marcello Seri (University of Groningen)
• Martin Sieber (University of Bristol, UK)
• Hiroshi Teramoto (Hokkaido University, Japan)
• Rien van de Weijgaert (University of Groningen)
• Steve Wiggins (University of Bristol, UK)
• Lei Zhao (University of Augsburg, Germany)