Alfred Hübler

Alfred Hübler
Research physicist and director of the Center for Complex Systems Research
Born	(1957-05-16) May 16, 1957 (age 60) Munich, Germany
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Technical University of Munich
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alfred Wilhelm Hübler (also-Hubler) is a German-born research physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory as well as a tenured faculty member in the University Illinois Department of Physics. He is the director of the Center for Complex Systems Research (CCSR) and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute.

Alfred Hübler was born in Munich, (West) Germany in 1957. He earned a doctorate in Nuclear Condensed Matter Physics from the Technical University of Munich in 1983. His Ph.D. research was on controlling chaos and fractal particle agglomeration processes. After his Ph.D., Hubler was invited to join Hermann Haken's Synergetics group at the University of Stuttgart as a post doc.

Hübler has been a faculty member of the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1989 as well as a long-time external faculty member of New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute. From 1993 to 1994, he was a Toshiba chair professor at Keio University in Tokio, Japan. He is also the Executive Editor of the journal Complexity.

Hübler has published more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals about his experimental and theoretical research on complex systems. His 2008 publication, entitled "A simple, low-cost data-logging pendulum built from a computer mouse" is one of the most downloaded papers of all Institute of Physics journal articles (in the top 3%). The American Physical Society (APS) listed his paper on mixed reality on the APS tipsheet and invited him to give a press conference on this topic at the 2008 March meeting. Hübler has a 1997 US patent on minimum dissipation quantum-dot transistors and in 2009 the UIUC filed a patent in his name on digital quantum batteries.

Concepts governing the dynamics and structure of emergent patterns in open dissipative systems; mixed reality; prediction and control of fractal network dynamics; entrainment of cancer cells; energy conversion, storage, and distribution; dissipate wave-particle systems; solitons; homeopathy; flames and shock waves; turbulence; reverse osmosis and filtration with fractal absorbers; conceptual networks; quantitative measures for knowledge and intelligence; natural language parsing.

Here are some of Hübler's more important publications: