Name: Niko Komin
	Email: niko ATT ifisc D0T uib-csic D0T es
	Phone: +34 971 25 95 20

CV

current position (since 2005): PhD student under the supervision of Raúl Toral at the IFISC (Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems), a joint research Institute of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Research topics: Synchronization and phase transitions induced by diversity in dynamical systems (φ⁴- or model A, active rotators) and applications in biology (drug transport, synchronization in circadian rhythm pacemaker cells, tumour growth). Cooperations within the BioSim network, funded by the European Comission.

Diplom (MSc equivalent, 2004): in physics. Thesis under the supervision of Lutz Schimansky-Geier at the department for Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics of the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Thesis title: "Active Motion of Biological Agents, taking the Daphnia as an example" (download pdf, german, 750KB).

publications

2011

"Synchronization and entrainment of coupled circadian oscillators"
N. Komin, A. C. Murza, E. Hernandez-García, R. Toral.
Interface Focus 1, 167-176 (2011), preprint: arXiv:1006.3446

2010

"Critical behavior of a Ginzburg-Landau model with additive quenched noise"
N. Komin, L. Lacasa, R. Toral.
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment P12008 (2010), preprint: arXiv:1009.4631

"Order parameter expansion and finite-size scaling study of coherent dynamics induced by quenched noise in the active rotator model"
N. Komin, R. Toral.
Physical Review E 82, 051127 (2010), preprint: arXiv:1007.4664

"Phase transitions induced by microscopic disorder: a study based on the order parameter expansion",
N. Komin, R. Toral.
Physica D 239, 1827-1833 (2010), preprint: arXiv:1003.1061

2009

"Drug absorption through a cell monolayer: A theoretical work on a non-linear three-compartment model",
N. Komin, R. Toral,
European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 37, 106-114 (2009), preprint: arxiv:0805.3757

2008

"Stochastic and Non-linear effects in Biological Systems"
N. Komin,
Memória de Investigación UIB (director Raúl Toral).

2005

"Advantages of Hopping on a Zig-zag Course".
L. Schimansky-Geier, U. Erdmann und N. Komin.
Physica A, 351:51-59, 2005, preprint: arxiv:0410035

2004

"Aktive Bewegung Biologischer Agenten am Beispiel der Daphnien"
N. Komin.
Master thesis (download pdf, german, 750KB), English summary as slides (download pdf, 1.6MB).

"Random Walk Theory Applied to Daphnia Motion"
N. Komin, U. Erdmann und L. Schimansky-Geier.
Fluctuation and Noise Letters, 4(1):L151-L159, 2004.

others

...to be continued...