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)