Curriculum Vitae PD Dr. Arnulf Möbius - Leibniz Institute for Solid ...

Curriculum Vitae
PD Dr. Arnulf Möbius
26.3.1952 born in Leipzig, East Germany
1959-69 school education in Leipzig
1969-71 special class for mathematics and physics at the Martin Luther
University Halle
1971 participant at the International Mathematical Olympiad (3rd prize)
1971-75 study of physics at the Dresden University of Technology
1975 diploma in physics
since 1975 employed at Central Institute of Solid State Physics and Materials
Research of the Academy of Sciences; since 1991: Institute for
Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden)
1980 dissertation at the Academy of Sciences on transport theory of
metals, advisor: Prof. G. Vojta
1981 3-month stay at the Institute of Physical Problems, Moscow,
collaboration with Prof. M.I. Kaganov
1982 6-week stay in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
1990 3-month stay at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt,
Braunschweig, in the group of Prof. B. Kramer
1993, 1995 5- und 4-week visits at the University of California, Riverside,
collaboration with Prof. M. Pollak
1995 5-week stay at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot,
invited by Prof. A. Finkel’stein
2000 habilitation at the Chemnitz University of Technology on
electronic processes in the border region of metallic conduction,
tutor: Prof. M. Schreiber
since 2000 regularly lecturing at the Chemnitz University of Technology
2001 appointed as Privatdozent by the Faculty of Natural Sciences of
the Chemnitz University of Technology
since 2004 deputy head of the group “Numerical Solid State Physics and
Simulation” at the IFW Dresden
2004 and 2010 invited participant of the workshops “Electronic Glasses” at the
Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Although I am a pure theoretician with respect to education, my scientific interests range from
detailed evaluation of experimental data via analytical theory and computer simulation up to
numerical mathematics.
For the last years, I have worked mainly on two fields: the numerical simulation of the
Coulomb glass and experiments on the metal-insulator transition in amorphous semiconductor
transition metal alloys. The former studies are devoted to the influence of many-particle
effects on the specific heat and to the order-disorder transition in this model. For that, we have
developed highly efficient algorithms for combinatorial optimization and for Monte Carlo
simulations at low temperatures. The experiments on the metal-insulator transition are
performed in tight collaboration with colleagues at the IFW Dresden and the
Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. Their strategy is based on the phenomenological
analysis of temperature derivatives of the conductivity. This yields qualitatively new insight,
demands however a very high experimental precision. My previous research was dedicated to
phase transitions of 2 1/2 order, transport theory of metals, simulation of the quench of
superconducting magnet systems, and to numerical methods for solving stiff differential
equations.
Scientific exchange is very important to me. After the dissertation in the group of Prof. G.
Vojta, the collaborations with Prof. M. I. Kaganov, Moskau, and Prof. M. Pollak, Riverside,
were formative regarding my scientific way, as well as the more than one decade of
collaboration with Prof. M. Schreiber, Chemnitz, and his group. Simultaneously I owe
numerous stimulations in particular to Dr. C. J. Adkins, Prof. B. Kramer, and Prof. P.
Thomas.
I ascribe high significance to the passing on of experience to students. Therefore, additionally
to my research at the IFW Dresden, I regularly give lectures at the Institute of Physics of the
Chemnitz University of Technology. According to my scientific experience, they are devoted
to solid state theory and applied numerics.
I am married, we have three children.
Dresden, 07/29/2010