2026 Theo Geisel: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	54	3153	3021	94	90	253	12100

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

1263
Citations
Dynamical synapses causing self-organized criticality in neural networks

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

649
Citations
Spike avalanches in vivo suggest a driven, slightly subcritical brain state

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

590
Citations
Accelerated diffusion in Josephson junctions and related chaotic systems.

T Geisel;J Nierwetberg;A Zacherl

481
Citations
Synchronization induced by temporal delays in pulse-coupled oscillators.

U. Ernst;K. Pawelzik;T. Geisel

449
Citations
Anomalous diffusion in intermittent chaotic systems

T. Geisel;S. Thomae

327
Citations
Flexible information routing by transient synchrony.

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

324
Citations
Onset of Diffusion and Universal Scaling in Chaotic Systems

T. Geisel;J. Nierwetberg

288
Citations
Model-free reconstruction of excitatory neuronal connectivity from calcium imaging signals.

Olav Stetter;Demian Battaglia;Jordi Soriano;Theo Geisel

285
Citations
Advancing the Boundaries of High-Connectivity Network Simulation with Distributed Computing

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

265
Citations
Slow decay of temporal correlations in quantum systems with Cantor spectra

R. Ketzmerick;G. Petschel;T. Geisel

265
Citations
New class of level statistics in quantum systems with unbounded diffusion.

T. Geisel;R. Ketzmerick;G. Petschel

247
Citations
Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Moser barriers in the quantum dynamics of chaotic systems.

T Geisel;G Radons;J Rubner

206
Citations
Magnetic Focusing of Composite Fermions through Arrays of Cavities.

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

203
Citations
Phase transitions towards criticality in a neural system with adaptive interactions.

Anna Levina;J. Michael Herrmann;Theo Geisel

187
Citations
What Determines the Spreading of a Wave Packet

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

186
Citations
Dynamic effective connectivity of inter-areal brain circuits.

Demian Battaglia;Annette Witt;Fred Wolf;Theo Geisel

177
Citations
Spontaneous pinwheel annihilation during visual development

F. Wolf;T. Geisel

176
Citations
Coexistence of regular and irregular dynamics in complex networks of pulse-coupled oscillators

Marc Timme;Fred Wolf;Theo Geisel

168
Citations
Generic 1/f noise in chaotic Hamiltonian dynamics.

T. Geisel;A. Zacherl;G. Radons

164
Citations
Statistical properties of chaos in Chebyshev maps

T. Geisel;V. Fairen

157
Citations
Beyond mean-field dynamics in open Bose-Hubbard chains

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

139
Citations