Katharina Hopf

Katharina Hopf is a Researcher at the Weierstrass Institute in Berlin, where she leads the junior group Multi-species Balance Laws. She also supervises Master thesis projects in analysis and partial differential equations at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Research Interests:

• Analytical aspects of nonlinear evolution PDEs
• Cross-diffusion and reaction-diffusion systems
• Interface phenomena and singularities
• Entropy tools and variational methods
• Metric gradient flows and mixed-type PDE systems

Recent Publications focus on gradient flows, cross-diffusion models, and singularities in PDEs, with applications in viscoelastic phase separation, energy-reaction-diffusion systems, and fluid dynamics. Interdisciplinary work includes modeling reactive gas mixtures in porous media.

Scientific Awards:

• 2020 Faculty Thesis Prize for Mathematics (University of Warwick)