The new PhD project referred to below was offered as part of the School's annual PhD studentship allocation round. It is still available, however, at the moment I have no funding for it.
The PhD project is about Active anomalous stochastic search; please see here for a detailed project description.
The project is advertised as part of our School's new PhD studentship allocation round for a start in 2020. Meaning you can apply for full funding via a PhD studentship offered by our School / the College. The studentships will be awarded on a competitive basis. Full information about the PhD studentship allocation round can be found here.
Please contact me if you are planning to apply!


*** PLEASE NOTE: The following list of projects is outdated, but it will give you a flavour of what kind of topics I can offer. I will update this list very soon. ***

I am offering Ph.D. or postdoctoral projects in the range of the following research themes:

projects that are more on the numerical side (i.e., based on computer simulations):

• chaos in a simple map model of an interacting many-particle system (calculate Lyapunov exponents both analytically and numerically)
• diffusion in chaotic particle billiards (rotating disk channel, periodic Lorentz gases, bouncing ball billiard)
  
• transport in thermostated dynamical systems (which are dynamical systems in nonequilibrium situations connected with thermal reservoirs) and active brownian particles (used to model biological dynamics)
  
• chaotic diffusion in nanopores (particularly so-called zeolites, a project that should bridge the gap between theory and applications)
  
• deterministic ratchets (also called molecular motors)
  

projects that require an analytical access road:

• weak chaos and superdiffusion in intermittent deterministic maps (requires some simple simulations, stochastic theory and dynamical systems theory): see here for a full project proposal
  
• pseudochaotic transport in polygonal billiards (a tough project, more on the mathematical side; may require some infinite precision computer simulations)
  
• anomalous fluctuation relations in the comb model (simulations in comparison to stochastic theory)
• extreme events in simple chaotic maps (simulations and dynamical systems theory)
• diffusion in quantum mechanical multibaker maps
  
• possibly a project related to one of the sections in Chapter 17 of my recent book

projects about experimental data analysis and stochastic modeling:

• experimental data analysis and stochastic modeling of bumblebee flights (together with the exp. biology group of Prof. Chittka at QMUL): see here for a full project proposal
  
• experimental data analysis and stochastic modeling of anomalous biological cell migration (together with experimentalists around Dr.P.Dieterich, Dresden)
• experimental data analysis and stochastic modeling of eye movements (together with the experimental group of Dr.F.Huettig, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL
  

I will be happy to discuss more details of these projects with you upon request.