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Curriculum Vitae
Alexandra von Kameke
Group of Nonlinear Physics, Faculty of Physics
Rúa Xosé María Suárez Núñez, s/n. Campus sur
15782 Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, Spain
alexandra.vonkameke@usc.es
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 14.07.1982
Place of Birth:
Citizenship:
Country of Residence:
Hamburg
German
Spain
Education
Fall/Winter 2012
September 2011 –
January 2012
June 2010
Since February 2009
September 2002 –
October 2008
Expected completion of PhD – Thesis: About the Effect of Turbulent
and Superdiffusive Flows on Active Media,
Professor Vicente Pérez Villar, Professor Alberto Pérez Muñuzuri,
Faculty of Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
International Research Scholar, Northwestern University,
Professor Dirk Brockmann, Department of Applied Math,
Evanston/Chicago, USA
Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA), Professor Vicente Pérez Villar,
Professor Alberto Pérez Muñuzuri, Faculty of Physics, University of
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
PhD Student in the Group of Nonlinear Physics, Professor Vicente
Pérez Villar, Professor Alberto Pérez Muñuzuri, Faculty of Physics,
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Diploma in Physics (grade: excellent)
Subsidiary subjects: Medical physics, Psychology,
Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany
2007 – 2008 Diploma thesis in Physics (grade: excellent),Institute of Physiology
and Pathophysiology, Fluorescence Microscopy Used for Visualization of
Network Activity in Hippocampal Slices of Mouse and Rat,
Professor Andreas Draguhn and Professor Christoph Cremer (Kirchhoff
Institute for Physics), Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany
2005 – 2006 Study abroad at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
ERASMUS scholarship
July 2002
August 1998 – July 1999
Abitur (university qualifying diploma), Gymnasium Hochrad, Hamburg,
Germany, grade: good
High school year abroad in host-family, Louisiana, USA
Language Skills
German:
Spanish:
English:
Portuguese:
Native language
Fluent
Fluent
Basics

Programming Languages and EDV
C++, Fortran, Matlab, Python, Neuron, Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), Open Office, Adobe, Scribus, Spike
Publications in International Scientific Journals
F. Huhn, A. von Kameke, S. Allen-Perkins, P. Montero, A. Venancio, and V. Pérez-Muñuzuri: Horizontal Lagrangian
transport in a tidal-driven estuary - transport barriers attached to prominent coastal boundaries, Cont. Shelf Res.,
2012 (submitted).
Huhn, F., A. von Kameke, V. Pérez Muñuzuri, M. J. Olascoaga, and F. J. Beron-Vera: The impact of advective
transport by the South Indian Ocean Countercurrent on the Madagascar plankton bloom, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2012,
(in press).
A. von Kameke, F. Huhn and V. Pérez-Muñuzuri: Asymptotic diffusion coefficients and anomalous diffusion in a
meandering jet-flow under environmental fluctuations, Phys. Rev. E 85, 017201, 2012.
Susanne Reichinnek, Alexandra von Kameke, Anna M. Hagenston, Eckehard Freitag, Fabian C. Roth, Hilmar
Bading, Mazahir T. Hasan, Andreas Draguhn, Martin Both: Reliable optical detection of coherent neuronal activity in
fast oscillating networks in vitro, NeuroImage, Vol. 60, 1, 139–152, 2012.
A. von Kameke, F. Huhn, G. Fernández-García, A. P. Muñuzuri, and V. Pérez-Muñuzuri: Double Cascade Turbulence
and Richardson Dispersion in a Horizontal Fluid Flow Induced by Faraday Waves, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 074502, 2011.
A. von Kameke, F. Huhn, G. Fernández-García, A. P. Muñuzuri, and V. Pérez-Muñuzuri: Propagation of a chemical
wave front in a quasi-two-dimensional superdiffusive flow, Phys. Rev. E 81, 066211, 2010.
Scholarships
Estancias Breves
Research stay Northwestern University, USA
Duration: Sep 2011 – Jan 2012
Funding entity: Ministry of Education, Spanish Government
FPU (Formación del Profesorado Universitario)
Doctoral thesis in the Group of Nonlinear Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Santiago de
Compostela, Spain
Duration: 2010 – 2014
Funding entity: Ministry of Education, Spanish Government
ERASMUS
Studies in Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela
Duration: Sep 2005 – Jul 2006
Funding entity: Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Relevant Experiences and Other Merits
Supervision of students projects
Composition of scientific project proposals, e.g. Integrated Actions (German DAAD)
President of the Equal Opportunity Commission (“Gleichstellungsbeauftragte”) of the Faculty of Physics,
University of Heidelberg (2004-2005)
Organizer of the “Heidelberger Symposium”, annual interdisciplinary congress to foster the interaction of
economy, politics and science (organized by students only) (2004-2009),
URL: www.heidelberger-symposium.de
Initiator and Organizer of the 1. and 2. H-BIT (Job fair for natural scientists) at the University of Heidelberg,
URL: http://archiv.hcwk.de/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=365&Itemid=174
Initiator and Organizer of Postgraduate Talks about Physics (DOC-MEET-USc) at the University of Santiago de
Compostela, Spain
Prize for best poster presentation at the congress “Dynamics in Systems Biology”,
Aberdeen, UK, 2009
Certificate: Management and handling of scientific laboratory animals (Versuchstierkundliche Grundlagen
und tierexperimentelle Methoden)