Sebastian Reich

Sebastian Reich is a Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Potsdam and holds an honorary Visiting Professorship at Imperial College London. He leads the Chair of Numerical Mathematics and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification since 2021.

Research Interests

• Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems
• Data assimilation in geoscience
• Stochastic particle filters
• Bayesian inference algorithms
• Molecular dynamics simulation
• Multi-scale modeling

Collaborative Projects:

• Principal Investigator and former Speaker (2017-2024) of SFB 1294 Data Assimilation, a DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center
• Active participant in SFB 1114 Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems at Freie Universität Berlin

Books Authored:

• Probabilistic Forecasting and Bayesian Data Assimilation (Cambridge UP, 2015)
• Simulating Hamiltonian Mechanics (Cambridge UP, 2005)

Technical Contributions:

• Development of symplectic integration methods
• Innovations in ensemble Kalman filtering
• Regularization approaches for geophysical models
• Stochastic algorithms for molecular simulations