[1] Scheel earned his Ph.D. in 1994 from the Freie Universität Berlin under the supervision of Bernold Fiedler.
Crawford Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for outstanding research in nonlinear science.
[3][4] Scheel attended the University of Heidelberg 1987-1990 and graduated with a DEA from the Institut Nonlineaire de Nice in 1991.
Scheel's research is concerned with patterns and waves in spatially extended dynamical systems.
His results include existence, stability, and bifurcation results for coherent structures such as wave trains, invasion fronts, pattern forming fronts, defects in oscillatory media, spiral waves, or defects in striped phases such as grain boundaries and dislocations.