Kurths ya yi karatun lissafi a Jami'ar Rostock kuma an ba shi PhD a 1983 a GDR Academy of Sciences, sannan aka shigar da shi a 1991 a fannin kimiyyar lissafi a Jami'ar Rostock. A 1991, a cikin wani shiri na musamman na Max-Planck-Society, an zaɓe shi a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin 'yan masana kimiyya daga Gabashin Jamus don zama darektan sabon rukunin aiki kuma ya kafa sanannen sanannen rukuni a duniya a kan maganganu marasa daidaituwa. A 1994 ya sami cikakken kujera a kan ilimin lissafi / maganganu marasa daidaituwa a Jami'ar Potsdam. A can kuma ya kasance Dekan na Kimiyyar Kimiyya (1996<unk>1999), kuma ya kafa a matsayin darektan kafa Cibiyar Interdisciplinary for Dynamics of Complex Systems (1994<unk>2008). Ya kasance darektan Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam.
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