Dr. Els Heinsalu

Professional employment

• Since 2015
  National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, senior researcher, Estonia
  
  

• 2007 – 2014
  National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, researcher, Estonia
  
  

• 2012 – 2014
  Niels Bohr International Academy, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, postdoctoral fellow, Denmark
  
  

• 2011 – 2008
  IFISC(InstituteforCross-DisciplinaryPhysicsandComplexSystems), University of the Balearic Islands and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC-UIB), postdoctoral research associate
  
  

• 2005 – 2008
  University of Tartu, Doctoral School of Materials Science and Material Technology, extraordinary researcher, Estonia
  
  

• 2004 – 2007
  University of Tartu, Institute of Theoretical Physics, extraordinary researcher, Estonia
  
  

• 2004 – 2005
  Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Chemistry, Computer Simulation Group, scientific coworker, Germany
  
  

Education

• 2004 – 2008
  University of Tartu, Ph.D. in theoretical physics, Estonia
  
  

• 2002 – 2004
  University of Tartu, M. Sc. in theoretical physics, Estonia
  
  

• 1998 – 2002
  University of Tartu, B. Sc. in physics, Estonia
  
  

Other professional experience

• 2007
  University of Camerino, Department of Physics, visiting doctoral student, Italy
  
  

• 2005 – 2006
  University of Augsburg, Institute of Theoretical Physics, visiting doctoral student, Germany
  
  

• 2004
  CERN, Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, summer student, Switzerland
  
  

• Heinsalu, E.; Patriarca, M.; Leonard, J.L. (2014). The Role of Bilinguals in Language Competition. Advances in Complex Systems, 17, 1450003.

• Heinsalu, Els; Patriarca, Marco (2014). Kinetic models of immediate exchange. The European Physical Journal B – Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 87, 170.10.1140/epjb/e2014-50270-6.

• Heinsalu, Els; Hernández-Garcia, Emilio; López, Cristóbal (2013). Clustering Determines Who Survives for Competing Brownian and Lévy Walkers. Physical Review Letters, 110, 258101.

• Heinsalu, Els; Patriarca, Marco; Marchesoni, Fabio (2009). Stochastic resonance in bistable confining potentials. European Physical Journal B, 69, 19.

• Heinsalu, E.; Patriarca, M.; Goychuk, I.; Hänggi, P. (2007). Use and Abuse of a Fractional Fokker-Planck Dynamics for Time-Dependent Driving. Physical Review Letters, 99, 120602.

• IUT39-1 "The role of diversity in complex systems (1.01.2015−31.12.2020)", Els Heinsalu, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics.

• ETF9462 "Spatio-temporal dynamics of condensed matter, biological and complex systems (1.01.2012−31.12.2015)", Els Heinsalu, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics.

• Member of the Estonian jury of the L'Oréal Baltic For Women in Science Fellowship program, since 2018

• President of the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences, since 2017

• Member of the science communication task force, since 2017

• Member of the science policy committee, since 2017

• Founding member of the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences, 2016

• Member of the Scientific Board of NICPB, since 2015

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Soft Skills

• Speak Estonian, English, Italian, and a bit German, Spanish, and Russian.

Other activities and achievements/family

• Four children born in 2011 (twins), 2013 and 2014.

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