Full name: Ute Ebert
Formal name: Prof.dr. U. Ebert
Function: Group leader, Scientific Staff Member

Email: Ute.Ebert@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4206
Room: M134
Homepage:  http://www.cwi.nl/~ebert
Research groups: Multiscale Dynamics

Research

Ute Ebert and her collaborators presently focus on multiscale plasma modeling, in particular, on the dynamics of sparks and lightning. Her CWI group concentrates on modeling and on the numerical and analytical aspects of calculations on multiple scales (from single electron dynamics up to the macroscopic discharge channel trees). This research is embedded in multidisciplinary projects together with applied plasma physics and power electrical engineering at TU Eindhoven and with an international network of geophysicists where Ebert also contributes to planning and interpreting experiments and observations.

Career

2013	Group leader MD - Multiscale dynamics
2013 -	Scientific staff member MD - Multiscale dynamics
2012 - 2013	Scientific staff member MAC3 - Multiscale Modelling and Nonlinear Dynamics
2010 - 2013	Group leader MAC3 - Multiscale Modelling and Nonlinear Dynamics
2002 -	Full professor of Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology (0.2 fte.)
2002 - 2009	Group leader MAS3 - Multiscale Modelling and Nonlinear Dynamics
1998 - 2001	Project leader MAS1 - Dynamical Systems and Numerical Analysis
1994 - 1998	Postdoc at Instituut Lorentz, Leiden University
1988 - 1994	PhD student and teaching assistant, Universität Essen
1987 - 1988	Minerva-Fellowship at Hebrew University Jerusalem
1980 - 1987	Study of Physics at University Heidelberg, Germany. Fellow of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

Selected Awards and Honours

2006	Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
2004	Minerva Prijs (FOM)

Selected Academic Activities

2013 -	Member editorial board Journal: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
2011	Co-organizer Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference - [GEC]
2010	Organizer Amsterdam, The Netherlands - European workshop EM Coupling of the Atmosphere with Near-Earth Space - [E-CANES]
2009 -	Member program board STW - program Building in Transient Plasmas
2009 -	Member program board FOM - program Active Control of MHD Modes in Burning Plasmas

Selected Publications

C. Li, H.J. Teunissen, M. Nool, W. Hundsdorfer, Ute Ebert. A comparison of 3D fluid, particle and hybrid model for negative streamers. Plasma Sources Science and Technology 21, 055019, 2012.

P.O. Kochkin, C.V. Nguyen, A. van Deursen, Ute Ebert. Experimental study of hard X-rays emitted from meter-scale positive discharges in air. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 45, 425202, 2012.

Ute Ebert, F. Brau, G. Derks, W. Hundsdorfer, C.-Y. Kao, C. Li, A. Luque, B.J. Meulenbroek, S. Nijdam, V. Ratushna, L. Schäfer, S. Tanveer. Multiple scales in streamer discharges, with an emphasis on moving boundary approximations. Nonlinearity 24, C1–C26, 2011.

Ute Ebert, S. Nijdam, C. Li, A. Luque, T.M.P. Briels, E.M. van Veldhuizen. Review of recent results on streamer discharges and their relevance for sprites and lightning.. Journal of Geophysical Research 115, A00E43, 1–13, 2010.

A. Luque, Ute Ebert. Emergence of sprite streamers from screening-ionization waves in the lower ionosphere. Nature Geoscience 2, 757–760, 2009.

Ute Ebert, W. van Saarloos. Front propagation into unstable states: universal algebraic convergence towards uniformly translating pulled fronts. Physica - D, Nonlinear Phenomena 146, 1–99, 2000.

All publications (link to repository)