University Duisburg-Essen

Faculty of Physics

Physics of Transport and Traffic

Lotharstr. 1

D-47057 Duisburg

Germany

Curriculum Vitae

Michael Schreckenberg, born 1956 in Düsseldorf, studied theoretical physics at the University of Cologne, where he got in 1985 his PhD in statistical physics. In 1994 he moved to the University Duisburg-Essen, where he became the first German professor for Physics of Transport and Traffic in 1997. Since more than ten years he is working on modelling, simulation and optimisation of large-scale transportation systems, especially road traffic and the influence of human behaviour on it. His current activities include online traffic-forecasts on the highway network in North Rhine-Westphalia, the reaction of drivers on traffic information and the analysis of a crowd of panicking people.