Postdoc Tel.: +49-441-798-3839 Mail:  leonhard.luecken [at] uni-oldenburg.de

Background
since 2019 PostDoc (ICBM, University of Oldenburg)
2016-2019 PostDoc (German Aerospace Center (DLR) Berlin)
2016: Ph.D. in mathematics (Humboldt-University of Berlin)
2011: Diploma in mathematics (Humboldt-University of Berlin)

Research Interests
I am interested in mathematical modelling of various aspects of ecological communities, such as
adaptive strategies or collective phenomena arising from biotic interactions. In my work, I apply
and extend methodology from network theory, dynamical systems, and data analysis.

Current Project
Our project "Interaction networks in phototroph-heterotroph microbial communities" is part of the
Simons Collaboration on Computational Biogeochemical Modeling of Marine Ecosystems (CBIOMES). We
model metabolite-mediated interactions between phototrophs and bacteria and their implications for
community structure and dynamics.

Selected references:

Ecological modelling
Lücken, Leonhard, et al. "Emergent diversity and persistent turnover in evolving microbial cross-feeding networks." Frontiers in Network Physiology 2 (2022): 834057. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnetp.2022.834057
Kerimoglu, Onur, et al. "Growth, organic matter release, aggregation and recycling during a diatom bloom: a model-based analysis of a mesocosm experiment." bioRxiv (2022): 2022-05. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.18.492269

Traffic modeling
Alms, Robert, et al. "Reinforcement Learning-Based Traffic Control: Mitigating the Adverse Impacts of Control Transitions." IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 3 (2022): 187-198. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJITS.2022.3158688
Lücken, Leonhard, et al. "From automated to manual-modeling control transitions with SUMO." (2019): 124-144. https://dx.doi.org/10.29007/sfgk
Lücken, Leonhard. "On the variation of the crash risk with the total number of bicyclists." European transport research review 10.2 (2018): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12544-018-0305-9
Lopez, Pablo Alvarez, et al. "Microscopic traffic simulation using sumo." 2018 21st international conference on intelligent transportation systems (ITSC). IEEE, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569938

Dynamical systems
Klinshov, Vladimir, et al. "On the interpretation of Dirac δ pulses in differential equations for phase oscillators." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 31.3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0040995
Lücken, Leonhard, et al. "Pattern reverberation in networks of excitable systems with connection delays." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 27.1 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4971971
Lücken, Leonhard, et al. "Noise-enhanced coupling between two oscillators with long-term plasticity." Physical Review E 93.3 (2016): 032210. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032210
Klinshov, Vladimir, et al. "Multistable jittering in oscillators with pulsatile delayed feedback." Physical review letters 114.17 (2015): 178103. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.178103
Lücken, Leonhard, et al. "Reduction of interaction delays in networks." Europhysics Letters 103.1 (2013): 10006. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/103/10006