Kathy Lüdge

Kathy Lüdge is a Full Professor leading the group of Theoretical Physics II & Computational Physics at the Technische Universität (TU) Ilmenau since 2021.

From 2016 until 2021, she was Professor and Chair of the Nonlinear Laser Dynamics group at TU Berlin. Kathy’s field of expertise extends from semiconductor laser modelling to complex systems science and optical reservoir computing. She is a well-known expert on the modelling of nonlinear emission dynamics of nanostructured semiconductor devices and is regularly invited for talks at international conferences.

For her pioneering work on QD laser modelling, she received the Karl Scheel Prize of the Physical Society of Berlin in 2012. She won a 1-year Humboldt Feodor-Lynen Fellowship at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) in 2016, was a DAAD supported visiting scientist at the University of Minnesota (USA) in 2002, and a visiting professor at Freie Universität in Berlin in 2015.

Technische Universität Ilmenau (TU Ilmenau)
Expertise in coupled lasers and nonlinear dynamic network simulations