Robert E Ecke

Robert Everett Ecke is an American experimental physicist who is a laboratory fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Affiliate Professor of Physics at the University of Washington. His research has included chaotic nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation, rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection, two-dimensional turbulence, granular materials, and stratified flows. and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was chair of the APS Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, served in numerous roles in the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, and was the Secretary of the Physics Section of the AAAS.

Education and early life Ecke was born in Los Angeles, California, in February 1953. He grew up in Helena, Montana and graduated from the University of Washington in 1975 with a B.S. in Physics and on pattern formation in rotating convection and in compositional convection. Later, he studied turbulence in Rayleigh-Bénard convection with and without rotation and pattern formation in high-pressure gaseous convection, including experiments on spiral defect chaos. In 1997, he was appointed to the position of Laboratory Fellow and continued to expand his research into two-dimensional turbulence, granular chain dynamics, granular media dynamics, stick-slip motion in an earthquake experiment, solutal convection, and turbulent mixing in stratified flows. In 2004, he became the director of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, where he directed research on condensed matter physics, quantum information, information science, non-equilibrium and nonlinear physics, biophysics, and computational chemistry. Robert Ecke has published more than 110 research articles and has an h-index of 43 with 5400 citations according to his Google Scholar profile.

Awards

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Washington, 1975 Director's Funded Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1983 Fellow of American Physical Society, 1994