Cai Dieball, scientist at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences, and Björn Müller, researcher at the MPI for Solar System Research, have been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements in their dissertations.
Stochastic dynamics in small systemsAtoms and molecules are continuously in thermal motion in their microscopic world. As a result, small biophysical systems, such as molecular machines, are subject to random dynamics.
In his doctoral thesis, Cai Dieball investigated the properties of these random dynamics along individual motion paths, known as trajectories, from the perspective of mathematical physics. He focused on the mathematical concept of…