Curriculum vitae and list of selected publications

Axel Brandenburg
Last updated: 12 Jun 2010

Born: 7 April 1959 in Heide, Federal Republic of Germany
Nationality: German
Marital status: Married (to Finnish citizen), 1 child

Address
NORDITA, Roslagstullsbacken 23, AlbaNova University Center, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Telephone: +46 8 5537 8707
e-mail: brandenb@nordita.org
http://www.nordita.org/~brandenb

Education

Abitur, Werner Heisenberg Gymnasium, Heide, June 1978

Dipl. Physik, University of Hamburg, January 1986, Diploma thesis: Hydrodynamics of convective bubbles in linear approximation

Lic. Phil., University of Helsinki, February 1989, Licentiate thesis: Kinematic dynamo theory and the solar activity cycle

Dr. Phil., University of Helsinki, May 1990, Doctoral dissertation: Challenges for solar dynamo theory: $\alpha$-effect, differential rotation and stability

Employment

Sep. 1990 - Aug. 1992:  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nordita, Copenhagen
Aug. 1992 - Nov. 1992:  Visiting Fellowship, University of Cambridge
Dec. 1992 - Nov. 1994:	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, High Altitude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder
Dec. 1994 - Jan. 1996:	Nordic Assistant Professor, Nordita, Copenhagen
Feb. 1996 - Dec. 2000:	Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2006:	Professor of Astrophysics, Nordita (Copenhagen)
since January 2007:	Professor of Astrophysics, Nordita (Stockholm) and Stockholm Observatory

Publications
(see also: http://www.nordita.org/~brandenb/pub)
Number of papers in refereed journals: 230
Number of invited conference reviews: 32
Number of communications to scientific meetings: 66
Supervised: 4+4 PhDs, 5+4 post-docs

Influential papers

paper:	#	citations
Brandenburg & Subramanian (2005)	A 153	258	(ADS)
Brandenburg (2001)	A 98	227	(ADS)
Beck et al. (1996)	A 58	434	(ADS)
Brandenburg et al. (1995)	A 44	425	(ADS)
Nordlund et al. (1992)	A 22	156	(ADS)
Brandenburg et al. (1989)	A 3	120	(WoS)

Fields of research

Solar physics, with emphasis on dynamo theory and turbulence theory; astrobiology, with emphasis on homochirality. Particular interests: solar and stellar activity, helioseismology, convection, differential rotation, galactic turbulence and magnetism, accretion discs, fractals in turbulence, relativistic hydrodynamics, early universe, magnetospheric physics.

Selected papers (recent or important)

1. Brandenburg, A., Rädler, K.-H., Rheinhardt, M., & Käpylä, P. J.: 2008, ``Magnetic diffusivity tensor and dynamo effects in rotating and shearing turbulence,'' Astrophys. J. 676, 740-751 (arXiv:0710.4059, ADS, PDF)

2. Brandenburg, A., & Subramanian, K.: 2005, ``Astrophysical magnetic fields and nonlinear dynamo theory,'' Phys. Rep. 417, 1-209 (astro-ph/0405052, ADS, PDF)

3. Brandenburg, A.: 2005, ``The case for a distributed solar dynamo shaped by near-surface shear,'' Astrophys. J. 625, 539-547 (astro-ph/0502275, ADS, PDF)

4. Brandenburg, A., & Multamäki, T.: 2004, ``How long can left and right handed life forms coexist?'' Int. J. Astrobiol. 3, 209-219 (q-bio/0407008, ADS, PDF)

5. Brandenburg, A., Käpylä, P., & Mohammed, A.: 2004, ``Non-Fickian diffusion and tau-approximation from numerical turbulence,'' Phys. Fluids 16, 1020-1027 (astro-ph/0306521, ADS, PDF)

6. Haugen, N. E. L., Brandenburg, A., & Dobler, W.: 2003, ``Is nonhelical hydromagnetic turbulence peaked at small scales?'' Astrophys. J. Lett. 597, L141-L144 (astro-ph/0303372, ADS, PDF)

7. Blackman, E. G., & Brandenburg, A.: 2002, ``Dynamic nonlinearity in large scale dynamos with shear,'' Astrophys. J. 579, 359-373 (astro-ph/0204497, ADS, PDF)

8. Brandenburg, A.: 2001, ``The inverse cascade and nonlinear alpha-effect in simulations of isotropic helical hydromagnetic turbulence,'' Astrophys. J. 550, 824-840 (astro-ph/0006186, ADS, PDF)

9. Korpi, M. J., Brandenburg, A., Shukurov, A., Tuominen, I., & Nordlund, Å.: 1999, ``A supernova regulated interstellar medium: simulations of the turbulent multiphase medium,'' Astrophys. J. Lett. 514, L99-L102 (ADS, PDF)

10. Brandenburg, A., & Schmitt, D.: 1998, ``Simulations of an alpha-effect due to magnetic buoyancy,'' Astron. Astrophys. 338, L55-L58 (ADS, PDF)

11. Brandenburg, A., Enqvist, K., & Olesen, P.: 1996, ``Large-scale magnetic fields from hydromagnetic turbulence in the very early universe,'' Phys. Rev. D 54, 1291-1300 (astro-ph/9602031, ADS, PDF)

12. Brandenburg, A., Jennings, R. L., Nordlund, Å., Rieutord, M., Stein, R. F., & Tuominen, I.: 1996, ``Magnetic structures in a dynamo simulation,'' J. Fluid Mech. 306, 325-352 (ADS, PDF)

13. Beck, R., Brandenburg, A., Moss, D., Shukurov, A., & Sokoloff, D.: 1996, ``Galactic Magnetism: Recent Developments and Perspectives,'' Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 34, 155-206 (ADS, PDF)

14. Brandenburg, A., Nordlund, Å., Stein, R. F., & Torkelsson, U.: 1995, ``Dynamo-generated turbulence and large scale magnetic fields in a Keplerian shear flow,'' Astrophys. J. 446, 741-754 (ADS, PDF)

15. Brandenburg, A., & Zweibel, E. G.: 1994, ``The formation of sharp structures by ambipolar diffusion,'' Astrophys. J. Lett. 427, L91-L94 (ADS, PDF)

16. Nordlund, Å., Brandenburg, A., Jennings, R. L., Rieutord, M., Ruokolainen, J., Stein, R. F., & Tuominen, I.: 1992, ``Dynamo action in stratified convection with overshoot,'' Astrophys. J. 392, 647-652 (ADS, PDF)

17. Brandenburg, A., Krause, F., Meinel, R., Moss, D., & Tuominen, I.: 1989, ``The stability of nonlinear dynamos and the limited role of kinematic growth rates,'' Astron. Astrophys. 213, 411-422 (ADS, PDF)

Organization of conferences

Feb 1996  NorFA Winter School on Magnetic fields in Space and Astrophysics (Levitunturi, Finnish Lapland)
May 1997  UK-MHD meeting (Newcastle, England)
Jan 2000  Physics of Accretion and Associated Outflows (Copenhagen)
Jul 2000  Nordita Master Class in Physics (Copenhagen)
Mar 2001  Dynamos in the Laboratory, Computer, and the Sky (Copenhagen)
Jul 2001  Nordita Master Class in Physics (Hillerød)
Jul 2002  Nordita Master Class in Physics (Hillerød)
Jan 2004  Astrobiological Problems for Physicists (Copenhagen)
Aug 2004  Astrobiological Problems for Physicists and Biologists (Turku, Finland)
Sep 2004  Cosmic Ray Dynamics: from Turbulent to Galactic Scale Magnetic Fields (Copenhagen)
Jan 2005  Meeting on Nordic Science Outreach (Copenhagen)
Jan 2005  Astrobiology and Origins of Life (Copenhagen)
Jul 2005  Nordita Master Class in Physics (Hillerød, in July)
Jan 2006  Winter School on Astrobiology (Levitunturi, Finnish Lapland)
Jun 2006  Workshop on Torsional oscillations in the Sun (Copenhagen)
May 2007  New Trends in Radiation Hydrodynamics (Stockholm)
Aug 2007  Pencil Code User Meeting (Stockholm)
Nov 2007  Joint Nordic and SwAN Astrobiology meeting (Stockholm)
Feb 2008  Program on the Origins of Homochirality (Stockholm)
Sep 1009  Program on Solar and Stellar Cycles (Stockholm)
May 2010  Program on Turbulent combustion (Stockholm)