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D-Index
54
Citations
12100
World Ranking
3155
National Ranking
93

Theo Geisel publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Theo Geisel sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 253 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Theo Geisel D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Theo Geisel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering and sustained contributions to our understanding of transport in classical and quantum chaotic dynamical systems, and for applying this understanding to a broad range of realworld problems

Overview

Theo Geisel is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Germany. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on Neuroscience, Computer Science, and Arts and Humanities. Geisel's work intersects with several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Signal Processing, Economics and Econometrics, Philosophy, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas with a particular emphasis on Neuroscience and Music Perception, which appears prominently across their publications. Other main topics include Music and Audio Processing, Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis, Music Technology and Sound Studies, as well as Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Mental Health and Psychiatry, and Personality Disorders and Psychopathology.

Their recent papers reflect this interdisciplinary approach and include the following:

  • "Downbeat delays are a key component of swing in jazz" (2022) in Communications Physics
  • "Stochastic properties of musical time series" (2024) in Nature Communications
  • "Somatic symptom disorder and the role of epistemic trust, personality functioning and child abuse: Results from a population-based representative German sample" (2024) in Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Tapping strength variability in sensorimotor experiments on rhythmic tapping" (2024) in Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • "Multiletramentos na Educação Básica: uma proposta com o mangá e anime 'A menina do outro lado'" (2025) in LínguaTec

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Geisel include Corentin Nelias, who has co-authored several papers, as well as Eva Marit Sturm, Thorsten Albrecht, and York Hagmayer.

Publication venues for their work display a multidisciplinary range, covering journals such as Communications Physics, Nature Communications, Journal of Affective Disorders, Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, and LínguaTec.

Throughout their career, Geisel has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) since 2008. This fellowship acknowledges sustained contributions to the understanding of transport in classical and quantum chaotic dynamical systems and their application to various real-world problems.

Best Publications

  • Forecast and control of epidemics in a globalized world

    L. Hufnagel;D. Brockmann;T. Geisel

  • Dynamical synapses causing self-organized criticality in neural networks

    A. Levina;A. Levina;J. M. Herrmann;T. Geisel;T. Geisel

  • Spike avalanches in vivo suggest a driven, slightly subcritical brain state

    Viola Priesemann;Michael Wibral;Michael Wibral;Mario Valderrama;Robert Pröpper

  • Accelerated diffusion in Josephson junctions and related chaotic systems.

    T Geisel;J Nierwetberg;A Zacherl

  • Synchronization induced by temporal delays in pulse-coupled oscillators.

    U. Ernst;K. Pawelzik;T. Geisel

  • Anomalous diffusion in intermittent chaotic systems

    T. Geisel;S. Thomae

  • Flexible information routing by transient synchrony.

    Agostina Palmigiano;Theo Geisel;Theo Geisel;Fred Wolf;Demian Battaglia;Demian Battaglia

  • Onset of Diffusion and Universal Scaling in Chaotic Systems

    T. Geisel;J. Nierwetberg

  • Model-free reconstruction of excitatory neuronal connectivity from calcium imaging signals.

    Olav Stetter;Demian Battaglia;Jordi Soriano;Theo Geisel

  • Advancing the Boundaries of High-Connectivity Network Simulation with Distributed Computing

    Abigail Morrison;Carsten Mehring;Theo Geisel;Theo Geisel Ad Aertsen

  • Slow decay of temporal correlations in quantum systems with Cantor spectra

    R. Ketzmerick;G. Petschel;T. Geisel

  • New class of level statistics in quantum systems with unbounded diffusion.

    T. Geisel;R. Ketzmerick;G. Petschel

  • Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Moser barriers in the quantum dynamics of chaotic systems.

    T Geisel;G Radons;J Rubner

  • Magnetic Focusing of Composite Fermions through Arrays of Cavities.

    J. H. Smet;D. Weiss;R. H. Blick;G. Lütjering

  • Phase transitions towards criticality in a neural system with adaptive interactions.

    Anna Levina;J. Michael Herrmann;Theo Geisel

  • What Determines the Spreading of a Wave Packet

    R. Ketzmerick;R. Ketzmerick;K. Kruse;S. Kraut;T. Geisel;T. Geisel

  • Dynamic effective connectivity of inter-areal brain circuits.

    Demian Battaglia;Annette Witt;Fred Wolf;Theo Geisel

  • Spontaneous pinwheel annihilation during visual development

    F. Wolf;T. Geisel

  • Coexistence of regular and irregular dynamics in complex networks of pulse-coupled oscillators

    Marc Timme;Fred Wolf;Theo Geisel

  • Generic 1/f noise in chaotic Hamiltonian dynamics.

    T. Geisel;A. Zacherl;G. Radons

  • Statistical properties of chaos in Chebyshev maps

    T. Geisel;V. Fairen

  • Beyond mean-field dynamics in open Bose-Hubbard chains

    Dirk Witthaut;F. Trimborn;H. Hennig;G. Kordas

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf Max Planck Society
Marc Timme
Marc Timme TU Dresden
Maxim Volgushev
Maxim Volgushev University of Connecticut
Dieter Weiss
Dieter Weiss University of Regensburg
Siegrid Löwel
Siegrid Löwel University of Göttingen
Maximilian Riesenhuber
Maximilian Riesenhuber Georgetown University Medical Center
Markus Diesmann
Markus Diesmann RWTH Aachen University
Fabian J. Theis
Fabian J. Theis Technical University of Munich
Michael Wibral
Michael Wibral University of Göttingen
Klaus von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing Max Planck Society

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