Michael Andreas Klatt
My aim is to identify and detect novel spatial structures in physics and mathematics. Therefore, I develop statistical and mathematical analysis tools to learn what geometry can tells us about the physical properties. Finally, I optimize the complex structures for innovative material design. Thus, my research combines surprising physical phenomena with rigorous mathematics and statistics. I work together with mathematicians and theoretical as well as experimental physicists.
Research Website: https://mklatt.org
E-mail: michael.klatt@fau.de
Address
Since October 2021, I work together with Hartmut Löwen in Düsseldorf.
I am also a member of the group of Karin Jacobs at Saarland University.
Curriculum Vitae (Oct 2021)
Academic Degrees
- Feb 2016 Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg - Dec 2010 Diploma in physics with honors
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Education
- Jan 2014 – Jun 2014 Princeton University
Visiting Student Research Collaborator - Feb 2011 – Jun 2015 University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Graduate student (PhD) - Apr 2009 – Sep 2009 University of Regensburg
Undergraduate student - Oct 2006 – Dec 2010 University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Undergraduate student - Apr 2006 – Sep 2006 University of Kaiserslautern
Undergraduate student
Positions and Employment
- Oct 2021 – present Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Dec 2020 – present Saarland University
Researcher in Priority Programme „Random geometric systems“ - Oct 2020 – present Princeton University
Sponsored affiliate - Oct 2020 – Sep 2021 University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Oct 2018 – Sep 2020 Princeton University
Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Jul 2015 – Sep 2018 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Feb 2011 – Jun 2015 University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Research and Teaching Assistant
Awards and Fellowships
- Nov 2021 Scholarship of Heraeus Foundation for ‚Falling Walls‘
- Oct 2017 Kulturpreis Bayern
Price for Culture and Science of the Federal State of Bavaria - Oct 2016 Ohm Prize of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
for an outstanding dissertation in 2015/2016 - Jun 2015 – Jul 2015 Participant of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
- Mar 2015 Best Poster Award at the 18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis
- Mar 2012 – Aug 2014 Ph.D. Fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung)
- Oct 2011 Ohm Prize of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
for an outstanding diploma thesis in 2010/2011 - Sep 2008 – Dec 2010 Fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung)
- Apr 2008 – Feb 2016 Scholar of the Elite Graduate Program of the State of Bavaria “Physics with Integrated Doctorate Program”
- Oct 2005 – Mar 2011 Scholar of the “Max Weber-Program of the State of Bavaria for the support of the highly-gifted”
Selected list of publications
- M. A. Klatt, P. J. Steinhardt, S. Torquato. Gap Sensitivity Reveals Universal Behaviors in Optimized Photonic Crystal and Disordered Networks. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127:037401-1–6 (2021)
- S. Torquato, J. Kim, M. A. Klatt. Local Number Fluctuations in Hyperuniform and Nonhyperuniform Systems: Higher-Order Moments and Distribution Functions. Phys. Rev. X 11:021028-1–27 (2021)
- M. A. Klatt, G. Last, D. Yogeshwaran. Hyperuniform and rigid stable matchings. Random Struct. Alg. 57:439–473 (2020)
- M. A. Klatt and K. Mecke. Detecting structured sources in noisy images via Minkowski maps. EPL 128:60001-p1–8 (2019)
- M. A. Klatt, P. J. Steinhardt, S. Torquato. Phoamtonic designs yield sizeable 3D photonic band gaps. PNAS 116:23480–23486 (2019)
- M.A. Klatt, J. Lovrić, D. Chen, S. C. Kapfer, F. M. Schaller, P. W. A. Schönhöfer, B. S. Gardiner, A.-S. Smith, G. E. Schröder-Turk, S. Torquato. Universal hidden order in amorphous cellular geometries. Nat. Commun. 10:811 (2019)
Selected list of presentations
- Invited talk at the MATH+ Thematic Einstein Semester: „Geometrical and Physical Properties of Novel Cellular Microstructures: From optimal ‚Quantizers‘ to ‚Phoamtonic‘ designs“, TU Berlin (Online), Germany (May 2021)
- Keynote opening the 15th International Congress for Stereology and Image Analysis: „How to find a hidden order among disorder“, Aarhus, Denmark (May 2019)
- Invited talk at the International Conference on Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems: „Universal hidden order in amorphous cellular geometries“, Bad Herrenalb, Germany (Sep 2017)
- Invited talk at the International Conference on Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems: „Shape of Anisotropic Random Fields“, Bad Herrenalb, Germany (Sep 2015)
- Plenary dinner talk at the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: „Complex and Disordered Structures: from Supernovae to Medical Diagnostics“, Lindau, Germany (Jul 2015)
Service to the community
- Peer review for PNAS, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Electronic Journal of Statistics, the Journal of Statistical Mechanics, and a book proposal for Oxford University press
- Design of a website https://morphometry.org, which presents the Minkowski functionals from integral geometry to applied scientists, including an interactive data analysis tool https://morphometry.org/morphometer, where I was responsible for the scientific concept together with Sebastian Kapfer and Fabian Schaller.
- Member of the German Physical Society (DPG), Section for Stochastics of the German Mathematical Society (DMV); Alumni of the Elite Network of Bavaria (ENB)