Professor Celso Grebogi

Biography

Professor Celso Grebogi is the Sixth Century Chair at King’s College, University of Aberdeen, UK. He is the Founding Director of the Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, whose work in systems biology and complex systems became leading in UK. He is the Co-founder of the Aberdeen-Lanzhou-Tempe Research Centre, whose work is in the new interdisciplinary field: Relativistic Quantum Chaos. He has been an External Scientific Member (Mitglied) of the Max-Planck-Society since 1998. He got his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Maryland in 1978, Postdoc in Physics and Applied Mathematics at UC Berkeley in 1978-1981. He was at the University of Sao Paulo as Professor of Physics, and, before that, with the University of Maryland as Professor of Mathematics. He is a leading expert in chaotic and complex nonlinear dynamics, including fractal geometry and complex networks. He has made a huge impact in the area of control of chaos. His seminal paper was selected by Physical Review Letters as a milestone in the past 50 years. He was awarded the Citation Laureate - Researcher of Nobel Class - in 2016, followed by a Motion to that effect supported by the Scottish Parliament. His scientific accomplishments include over 500 publications and over 500 invited talks. He received numerous distinctions, including multiple Doctor Honoris Causa and many Honorary Professorships, the Humboldt Senior Prize, Fulbright Fellowship, and Toshiba Chair as a World-renown Scholar, the Lagrange Award, the Max-Planck-Society Badge of Honour, and the James Yorke Award. He is Fellow in various scientific societies, including the Royal Society of Edinburgh, The World Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, The American Physical Society and the UK Institute of Physics. He has 32,000 citations and h-index = 84 in Scopus, and 47,000 citations and h-index = 96 in Google Scholar.

Prizes and Awards

• Fulbright Fellowship Award, 1974
• Distinguished Scientist Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, 1989
• Toshiba Chair as World-renowned Scholar, 1995
• Awarded the North British Differential Equations Lecture Tour, 1996
• Senior Humboldt Prize, 1996
• Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow Award, University of Maryland, 1996
• Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Potsdam, Germany, 1997
• Humboldt Prize Revisited Award, 2003
• Controlling Chaos, Physical Review Letters selected it as a milestone  in the past 50 years, 2008
• Honorary Professorship, Xi'an University of Technology, China, 2012
• Honorary Pofessorship, Lanzhou University, China, 2012
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Le Havre Normandie University, France, 2014
• Honorary Professorship, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 2015
• Awarded the Citation Laureate - Researcher of Nobel Class, 2016
• Motion S5M-01678 supported in the Scottish Parliament: "Aberdeen Academic Included in Citation Laureate", 27/09/2016
• Honorary Professorship, Tianjin University, China, 2018
• Honorary Expert, Weifang/Weicheng City, Shandong, China, 2018
• Honorary Professorship, Huaqiao Unviversity, China, 2018
• Honorary Expert, National Institute of Metrology, Yantai, China, 2019
• Burgess of Guild, The Burgesses of Guild of the City and Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, Scotland, 2022
• Badge of Honour from the President of the Max-Planck-Society, 22 June 2023
• Lagrange Award for Lifetime Achievement in Nonlinear Physical Science, 10 July 2023
• James Yorke Award for for breakthrough achievements in Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, 22 June 2024
• Scopus: 32,000 citations in indexed journals, h-index = 84
• Google Scholar: 47,000 citations, h-index = 96

Research Overview

Dynamics of nonlinear and complex systems including chaotic dynamics, fractal geometry, systems biology, population dynamics, neurodynamics, fluid advection, relativistic quantum nonlinear dynamics, and nanosystems.