Volker Jentsch:
Coauthor of Extreme Events in Nature and Society (Springer 2006), habilitated in
physics. He has worked at Max Planck Institutes and numerous universities in Germany and abroad, where he developed
mathematical and physical models for space, climate and transport. In the meantime, he worked in a ministry that manages science and research. At the end of the journey
he landed at the University of Bonn. There he founded and shaped, together with
scientists from various disciplines, "The Interdisciplinary
Center for Complex Systems". Today, he is concerned, among other things, with the
characteristics and commonalities of extreme events, confronting the objective
with the subjective view.