Prof. Malte Henkel | Innovative Leadership | Excellence in Research
LPCT, Universite de Lorraine Nancy | France
Professor Malte Henkel is a distinguished theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, dynamical symmetries, and conformal field theory. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Bonn in 1987, where his dissertation received the highest distinction and the prestigious Germano-Israeli Minerva Prize. Following extensive postdoctoral research at leading institutions including Weizmann Institute, Paris-Saclay, Oxford, and Geneva, he joined the Université de Lorraine, Nancy, as Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1995, where he now serves as PRCE2, the highest academic rank in France. His work has significantly advanced understanding of non-equilibrium criticality, local scale-invariance, reaction-diffusion processes, and infinite-dimensional Lie algebras. Professor Henkel has authored over 142 scientific papers, 50 conference proceedings, and several public science articles, amassing 8,271 citations and an h-index of 44 (as of October 2025). He has led numerous international collaborations and projects, including the ANR UNIOPEN program (2022–2026), and received awards such as the 2008 Best Teaching Prize for his Franco-German integrated physics program. His ongoing research explores non-equilibrium representations of dynamical symmetries, quantum dynamics, and fractional growth models, bridging mathematical physics with applications in complex systems and interdisciplinary science.
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Featured Publications
Henkel, M., Hinrichsen, H., & Lübeck, S. (2008). Non-equilibrium phase transitions: Vol. 1. Absorbing phase transitions. Springer.
Henkel, M. (2013). Conformal invariance and critical phenomena. Springer Science & Business Media.
Alcaraz, F. C., Droz, M., Henkel, M., & Rittenberg, V. (1994). Reaction-diffusion processes, critical dynamics, and quantum chains. Annals of Physics, 230(2), 250–302.
Henkel, M., & Pleimling, M. (2010). Non-equilibrium phase transitions: Vol. 2. Ageing and dynamical scaling far from equilibrium. Springer.
Henkel, M. (1994). Schrödinger invariance and strongly anisotropic critical systems. Journal of Statistical Physics, 75(5), 1023–1061.
Henkel, M., & Schütz, G. (1988). Finite-lattice extrapolation algorithms. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 21(11), 2617–2633.
Henkel, M. (2002). Phenomenology of local scale invariance: From conformal invariance to dynamical scaling. Nuclear Physics B, 641(3), 405–486.