Benedikt Jahnel

Prof. Dr. Benedikt Jahnel is a Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Stochastics, Carl Friedrich Gauss Faculty, Technical University of Braunschweig, and Head of the Leibniz Junior Research Group on Probabilistic Methods for Dynamic Communication Networks. His research focuses on the modeling and analysis of spatially embedded systems with interacting random components, with applications in physics, epidemiology, and telecommunications.

Education: PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Ruhr University Bochum (2011), Diploma from Technical University of Berlin.

Research interests: Uses tools from statistical mechanics and stochastic geometry to study phase transitions, percolation theory, and spatial random processes. Current projects investigate continuum percolation, interacting particle systems, and probabilistic methods for communication networks.

Recent publications demonstrate strong emphasis on spatial stochastic processes and percolation theory, with applications to network connectivity and epidemic modeling. Trends include mathematical analysis of phase transitions in random environments and dynamics of communication networks.

Scientific awards include leadership of Leibniz Junior Research Group, EURANDOM Ambassador appointment, and election to the board of the Probability and Statistics Group of the German Mathematical Society.

Leads a research team including 3 postdocs and 3 predoctoral researchers. Current projects funded by DFG, ERC, and Math+ Cluster of Excellence.

Heads the DYCOMNET research group at Weierstrass Institute Berlin, focusing on dynamic spatial random systems.