Niklas Manz

Niklas Manz is Professor and Physics Department Chair at the College of Wooster, specializing in pattern formation in nonequilibrium systems including chemical waves and fire propagation models.

Innovative Analogues: Develops table-top experiments using Belousov-Zhabotinsky reactions to model astrophysical phenomena like black hole event horizons and gravitational lensing.

Research Applications:

• Light-sensitive reaction-diffusion systems
• Forest fire propagation modeling
• Biological pattern formation (e.g., geographic tongue)

Student Research: Mentors experimental physics projects on wave dynamics, with recent studies on electron drift visualization and BZ reaction catalysts.

Education:

• Ph.D., Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University
• M.S., Technical University Braunschweig