I'm a physicist with a background in statistical physics and dynamical systems. In the last months, especially since January 2008 when I joined the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, I have broadened my research interests considerably. They now include not only new applications in physics (e.g., optical cavities in mesoscopic systems) but also dynamical processes in linguistics. At the same time that I approach these new areas I keep interested in my research topics of the last years:

  1. Analysis of extreme events including its dynamical origins, recurrence properties, prediction, and reactions. More information about this work you can find in my list of publications.
  2. Chaos in Hamiltonian systems, including billiards, stickiness in systems with mixed phase space, and Poincare recurrence time statistics. A visual introduction to this topic you can find  in the project: