EPJ B welcomes new Editor-in-Chief Philipp Hövel

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Published on 20 January 2025

The European Physical Journal B is glad to announce that Dr. Philipp Hövel (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany) has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief for the section on statistical physics and complex systems.

Dr. Hövel will work alongside Prof. Egger to continue guiding and developing the journal.

The journal and the Publishers, take the opportunity to thank Prof. Heiko Rieger whose work and leadership have been invaluable.

Philipp Hövel is a trained mathematician and physicist, who currently works as a researcher at Saarland University, Germany, in the Physics Department and Center for Biophysics. His research mission is to lift the boundaries between data-oriented science, theoretical approaches, and numerical simulations addressing interdisciplinary questions based on an overlap of nonlinear dynamics, network science, and control theory. His areas of expertise include complex systems, bifurcation theory, delay, differential equations, and complex networks. Besides mathematical modelling and analytical investigations, he has always looked for experimental validation of his theoretical findings and a combination of the models with empirical data. His interdisciplinary research concept has led to better insight and fundamental understanding of synchronization processes and other dynamical phenomena. In addition, the combination with empirical data sets will allow for investigations of real-world relevance in areas, such as neuroscience, epidemiology and beyond.