Armin Bunde & Jürgen Caro 
Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society [PDF ebook] 

Epidemic Spreading.- Hot Brownian Motion: Experiment.- Nature-Inspired Transport Optimization.- The Neolithic Transition.- Spreading Innovations.- Expansion of Language Families.- The Expansion of Farming.- Spreading of Failures in the Internet and in Power Grids.- Analyzing Language Shift.- Search for Food of Birds, Fish and Insects.- Uphill Diffusion.- Hot Brownian Motion: Theory.- Dispersal in Plants and Animals.- Diffusive Transport in Non-Equilibrium Steady State.- A New Class of Superspreader.- Transport Systems Living Organisms.- Brain Structure Revealed by Diffusive Spread of Molecules.- NMR Versatility.- Spore Dispersal in Lower Organisms.- Diffusion Processes in Atmospheric Physics.- Language Migration.

Prof. Jörg Kärger

Professional Career

1962 – 1968 Studying Physics at Leipzig University

1968 – 1970 Ph D-fellow Leipzig University, Dr. rer. nat. in Physics 1970

1970 – 1977 Scientific co-worker, Leipzig University

1977 – 1982 Senior scientific co-worker, Leipzig University

1978 Habilitation (‘Promotion B’)

1982 – 1989 Lecturer, Leipzig University

1989 – 1994 extraordinary Professor, Leipzig University

1994 – April 2009 Professor with full chair (Interface Physics), Leipzig University

since April 2009 Professor emeritus, Leipzig University

Professional Activities and Memberships

1996 – 1999 Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences at Leipzig University

1996 – 1999 President of the German Zeolite Association,  member of t
he FEZA Board (Federation of European Zeolite Associations)
1997 – 2000 Ombudsman of Leipzig University

2002 – 2006 Editorship www.diffusion-fundamentals.org (since 2003),

Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (European Editor 2004 – 2008)

Membership in Editorial Boards

Zeolites (1992 – 1997), Adsorption (since 1993), Microporous and

Mesoporous Materials (since 1993)

Honours

1978 Gustav-Hertz-Award
of the German Physical Society
1980 Leibniz-Medal of the German Academy of Sciences

1986 Donald-W.-Breck Award of the International Zeolite Association (together

with H. Pfeifer, D. Freude and M. Bülow)

1993 Max Planck Research Award of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and the Max-Planck-Society

2000 Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences

2005 Theodor-Litt-A
ward of Leipzig University
Research Interest

Experiment and
theory of mass transfer and matter conversion in complex systems

Prof. Dr. Gero Vogl, Wien Dr.phil. (Physik, Universität Wien), Dr. rer.nat.habil. (TU München) Emer. Professor 

1965 Dr.phil.1966 assistent physics department TU München1970 head low temperatur lab TU München1974 Habilitation1975 associate professor TU München1977 professor physics (C3) FU Berlin1985-2009  prof.  physics University Wien1999 department head Hahn-Meitner-Instituts Berlin1990-1991 member scientific couoncil integration Ad W of DDR 1991-1993 responsible for evaluation der physics research Autria1991-1998 speaker „Nuclear Solid State Sciences Austsria2002  coordinator net Materials Dynamics  BMWFT, international collaboration2002-2004 president Austrian Physical Society 

CV of Jürgen Caro

Po

sition: Professor (W3) for Physical Chemistry (chair)

Academic education and degrees

1992 Dr. rer. habil. on the application of zeolitic molecular sieves as catalysts,

adsorbents, nonlinear optical materials, sensor, membrane

1989 Dr. sc. nat. on the diffusion influence in heterogeneous catalysis

1977 Dr. rer. nat. on NMR studies of molecular diffusion in porous materials (Mentor: J. Kärger), „summa cum laude“

1970-1977 Study of Chemistry, University Leipzig, American model: direct after Bachelor,  start of
Ph D study
Scientific career

since 2001 W3 Professor for Physical Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover

1994-2001 Leader of the Department „Advanced Materials“ at the Institute for Applied

Chemistry in Berlin-Adlershof with the working fields ceramics, polymers,

composites

1992-1993 Formation of the new group „Nano-composites- molecular sieves as
high-tech
materials“ at Center for Heterogeneous Catalysis of the KAI in Berlin-Adlershof

1977-1991 Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the former East German Academy of

Sciences with the working fields adsorption, catalysis, porous materials, gas

separation, supercritical fluids

Further activities and honours

2013 Breck Award of the International Zeolite Association

2013 Ostwald-Medal of the Saxonian Academy of Scien
ces at Leipzig
2013-2016 Pr
ofessor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences at Ningbo, China
2014-2017 Visiting Professor at Dalian University of Technology, China

2014-2017

P
art-time Professor of the University at Panjin, China