Michael Stich studied Physics at the Free University Berlin (FU Berlin) and University Granada. He wrote the Diplomarbeit (similar to Master Thesis) in the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin under the supervision of Profs. G. Ertl and A. S. Mikhailov. In 1999 he graduated from Free University Berlin.

Michael Stich prepared the doctoral thesis in the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin in the Dept. of Prof. G. Ertl under the supervision of Prof. A. S. Mikhailov and obtained his doctoral degree from Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin) in 2003. After two years as postdoctoral researcher with an individual Marie Curie Fellowship of the EU in the Pluridisciplinar Institute of the University Complutense in Madrid (with Prof. M.G. Velarde), he worked in Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC/INTA) from 2005 to 2012 in the group of Susanna C. Manrubia. Between 2010 and 2012, he was furthermore Profesor Asociado (part-time) in the Dept. of Applied Mathematics at ETSAM, Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). From August 2012 to August 2013, he was Research Associate in the Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University (Cambridge).

In October 2013, he started as Lecturer in the Dept. of Mathematics (Non-linearity and Complexity Research Group and System Analytics Research Institute) at Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Research Interests:

Modelization of dynamical biological and chemical systems
Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation
Origin of life
RNA and molecular evolution

Contact:

Dr. Michael Stich

Non-linearity and Complexity Research Group
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham  B4 7ET
UK