Florian Wodlei (IPA: [floːɐ̯ʀi̯an voːdlaɪ̯])
Born in 1983, november I grew up in Carinthia, Austria and attended the Waldorfschule in Klagenfurt from autumn 1990. Already at that time I was interested in the natural phenomena. My maths and physics teacher Mihnea Hristea introduced me into the field of science.
From that time on I was fascinated in this field, specially in a chemical reaction, the Belousov Zhabotinsky reaction on which I was working for the final year project. After finishing the higher education entrance qualification I studied physics and chemistry at the Karl-Franzens university in Graz where I specialised in the field of theoretical (bio-)physics. I wrote my master thesis under the supervision of Hans-Hennig von Grünberg on the topic of Lipid Droplet Biogenesis (see research section). I finished my studies in physics in 2010.
From 2010 on I was teacher in physics, mathematics, information technology and chemistry at Waldorfschule Salzburg. During this time I could deepen my understanding in the basics of physcis, mathematics and chemistry and also followed my passion of teaching. And I continued also my research on the Belousov Zhabotinsky reaction on which soon my student Florian Wimmer was helping me.
From 2014 to 2017 I did my PhD in chemistry in Toulouse, France and worked with Véronique Pimienta invstigating the complex dissolution process of a Dichloromethane droplet in a surfactant containing aqueous solution at the institute of chemistry, Université Paul Sabatier.
In 2012 I founded together with Mihnea Hristea "Living Systems Research", a research association in which we investigate self-organizing and complex systems. The goal of our association is to improve the understanding of complex systems in different fields of science as in biology, chemistry, sociology or economy and to spread the knowledge of these kind of systems in the scientific community aswell as in the general public.
From 2017 to 2024 I was also a teacher in physics, mathematics, chemistry and information technology at Waldorfschule Klagenfurt.
| education | |
| 1990-2003 | Waldorfschule Klagenfurt (final year annual project: Entropy and Pattern Formation in Biological Systems (mentor: Mihnea Hristea)) |
| 2003-2010 | Master Degree in theoretical physics at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (master thesis advisors: Hans-Hennig von Grünberg) |
| 2014-2017 | PhD in chemistry at the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (supervisor: Véronique Pimienta) |
| Research stays and working places | |
| 2017–2024 | High School teacher, Waldorfschule, Klagenfurt. teaching Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Information Technology. |
| 2010–2014 | High School teacher, Rudolf-Steiner Schule, Salzburg. teaching Physics, Mathematics, Information Technology und Chemistry |
| 2012-present | Independent researcher, Living Systems RESEARCH, Klagenfurt. Research on self-organizing and complex systems (ilsr.at). |
| 2014 | Research collaboration with Federico Rossi on oscillationg Liposomes, which contained the Belousov Zhabotinsky reaction, Dipartimento di Chimica e Biologia/DBC, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Campus di Fisciano. |
| 2013 | Research collaboration with Marcello Budroni and Mauro Rustici on the homo- und heterogeneous chemical oscillators, Dipartimento di Chimica e Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Sassari, University of Sassari. |
| 2012 | External Professor at the Institut für Systemwissenschaften, Innovations- und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung, Karl Franzens Universität, Graz. Teaching abd coordinating the interdisciplinary course on electromagnetic fields and their interaction with neurons | Conferences and Summer Schools |
| 2006 | Mathematical Techniques in Modeling Physiological Systems (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| 2010 | ECCS’10 European Conference on Complex Systems (Lisboa, Portugal) |
| 2011 | ECCS’11 European Conference on Complex Systems (Vienna, Austria) |
| 2012 | ECCS’12 European Conference on Complex Systems (Bruxelles, Belgium) |
| 2013 | Workshop on Patterns and Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Reactive Systems (Bruxelles, Belgium) |
| 2013 | ECCS’13 European Conference on Complex Systems (Barcelona, Catalunia, Spain) |
| 2015 | Microswimmers (Bordeaux, France) |
| 2015 | Wivace (Bari, Italy) |
| 2016 | Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Oscillations & Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems (Stowe, Vermont, USA) |
| skills | |
| language | German (mother tongue), English (scientific), French (scientific), Italian, elements of Romanian, elements of Russian, elements of Greek |