CV – Michael Andreas Klatt

Academic Degrees

Sep 2023 – present German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Helmholtz Young Investigator Group Leader
Oct 2022 – present LMU Munich
Habilitation candidate
Oct 2021 – Aug 2023 Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Departments of Physics
Dec 2020 – Aug 2023 Saarland University
Researcher in Priority Programme “Random geometric systems”
Oct 2020 – present Sponsored affiliate of Princeton University
Oct 2020 – Sep 2021 University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Department of Physics
Oct 2018 – Sep 2020 Princeton University
Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Department of Physics
Jul 2015 – Sep 2018 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Department of Mathematics
Feb 2011 – Jun 2015 University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Research and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Physics

Oct 2022 Helmholtz Young Investigator Group
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 65th 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”

M. A. Klatt, P. J. Steinhardt, S. Torquato. Wave propagation and band tails of two-dimensional disordered systems in the thermodynamic limit. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 119:e2213633119-1–7 (2022)
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)

Hyperuniformity in physics and mathematics. Talk at the Workshop of DFG Priority Program SPP 2265 on “Random Point Processes in Statistical Physics”, Berlin, Germany (June 2022)
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)
Plenary dinner talk at the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: “Complex and Disordered Structures: from Supernovae to Medical Diagnostics”, Lindau, Germany (Jul 2015)