Research interests

• Dynamical systems 
• Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 
• Information theory
• Image processing

Publications

• “Towards a General Theory of Extremes for Observables of Chaotic Dynamical Systems”
  Valerio Lucarini, Tobias Kuna, Davide Faranda, Jeroen Wouters
  arXiv: 1301.0733
  
  
• “Avalanches, Breathers and Flow Reversal in a Continuous Lorenz-96 Model”
  Richard Blender, Jeroen Wouters, Valerio Lucarini
  Submitted to Phys. Rev. E
  arXiv: 1301.5801
  
  
• “Towards a Fluctuation Theorem in an Atmospheric Circulation Model”
  Bernd Schalge, Richard Blender, Jeroen Wouters, Klaus Fraedrich, Frank Lunkeit
  Submitted to Phys. Rev. E
  arXiv: 1211.1181
  
  
• “Extreme value theory provides early warnings for critical transitions”
  Davide Faranda, Valerio Lucarini, Jeroen Wouters
  arXiv: 1211.0510
  
  
• “Multi-level Dynamical Systems: Connecting the Ruelle Response Theory and the Mori-Zwanzig Approach”
  J. Wouters, V. Lucarini
  Accepted for publication in Journal of Statistical Physics;
  arXiv: 1208.3080
  
  
• "Disentangling multi-level systems: averaging, correlations and memory"
  J. Wouters, V. Lucarini
  J. Stat. Mech. (2012) P03003
  doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2012/03/P03003; arXiv: 1110.6113
  
  
• "Relevance of sampling schemes in light of Ruelle's linear response theory"
  V. Lucarini, T. Kuna, J. Wouters, D. Faranda
  Nonlinearity 25, 1311
  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/25/5/1311; arXiv: 1105.2527
  
  
• "Correlations in Free Fermionic Systems"
  M. Fannes, J. Wouters
  Proceedings of the "New Perspectives in Quantum Statistics and Correlations" conference
  
  
• "Quantum Processes"
  M. Fannes, J. Wouters
  Proceedings of the 46th Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics (2010)
  ISBN: 978-981-4317-43-6; arXiv: 1005.3177
  
  
• "Correlations in Free Fermionic States"
  M. Fannes, J. Wouters
  J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 465308 (2009)
  doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/46/465308; arXiv: 0906.3196

• "Classical capacity of a qubit depolarizing channel with memory" 
  J. Wouters, I. Akhalwaya, M. Fannes, F. Petruccione
  Phys. Rev. A 79, 042303 (2009)
  doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.042303; arXiv: 0901.2516
  
  
• "The Algebraic Measure of a Hidden Markov Quantum Memory Channel"
  I. Akhalwaya, J. Wouters, M. Fannes, F. Petruccione
  AIP Conf. Proc. Volume 1110, pp. 127-130 (2009)
  doi:10.1063/1.3131288; arXiv: 0901.2528
  
  
• "Non-rigid brain image registration using a statistical deformation model"
  J. Wouters, E. D'Agostino, F. Maes, D. Vandermeulen, and P. Suetens
  Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6144, 614411 (2006)
  doi:10.1117/12.653081
  
  
• "Non-rigid image registration using mutual information"
  F. Maes, E. D’Agostino, D. Loeckx, J. Wouters, D. Vandermeulen and P. Suetens
  Compstat 2006 - Proceedings in Computational Statistics
  doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-1709-6_8
   

Short CV

•  2000-2004: Bachelor and Master studies in physics at the KULeuven, Belgium 
   Thesis: Antisymmetric tensors in minimal 4-dimensional supersymmetry.
   
•  2004-2005: Master in medical imaging 
•  2005-2006: Researcher at the KULeuven, Belgium, in the Medical Image Computing research group 
•  2006-2010 : Doctoral studies at the KULeuven, Belgium at the Institute of Theoretical Physics.
  Thesis: "Quantum Hidden Markov Chains"
•  2011-2011: Research fellow at the University of Reading. 
•  2011-present: Research fellow Theoretische Meteorologie at the Universität Hamburg