Svetlana Gurevich
Svetlana was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She obtained her M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics at the Saint-Petersburg State University and a PhD in Physics at the Institute of Applied Physics of the University of Münster, Germany, where she studied self-organization and pattern formation in gas-discharge systems. She joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Mönster in 2008 as a research assistant where she obtained her Habilitation in Theoretical Physics in 2017. She is a DAAD fellow within P.R.I.M.E. program at the Universitat de les Illes Balears and was an invited guest professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears and the Institut LumieÌ€re MatieÌ€re, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France. Her research interests include control of self-organization, pattern formation, bifurcation analysis, soft matter and nonlinear laser dynamics.