Roland Ketzmerick

Roland Ketzmerick is a Professor at Technische Universität Dresden, leading the Computational Physics group. He is also a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. His research focuses on quantum chaos, mesoscopic physics, and Hamiltonian systems.

• Studied Physics at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Universität Freiburg, and Purdue University
• PhD in Physics (1989, Universität Frankfurt)
• Habilitation (1998, Universität Göttingen)
• Postdoctoral work at University of California Santa Barbara

His research interests include quantum chaos in mixed systems, power-law trapping in Hamiltonian systems, Floquet systems, Hamiltonian ratchets, fractal spectra, and Bloch electrons in magnetic fields. Recent work explores resonance states in chaotic scattering, quantum transport in higher-dimensional systems, and dynamical tunneling in 4D Hamiltonians.

His publications reveal trends in quantum chaos theory, resonance-assisted tunneling, and multifractal wavefunction analysis across quantum optics, condensed matter, and nonlinear dynamics. Key collaborations include Arnd Bäcker and Konstantin Clauß.

Scientific recognition includes the Otto-Klung-Prize (1999). He has led the DFG Forschergruppe FOR760 (2010-2013) and served as Physics Department Head (2016-2018).

As head of TU Dresden's Computational Physics group, his team investigates quantum chaos mechanisms using semiclassical methods and numerical simulations. Recent projects analyze Arnold web dynamics, dielectric cavity resonance, and ultracold atom entanglement in chaotic systems.