Meet the Brains
Learn more about the scientific community of Adlershof: the achievements, merits, duties and honours.
Of course, this section does not cover all the people who work here in the fields of science and technology. More profiles will be added soon...
Prof. Dr. Alexander Föhlisch
Head of the institute of methods and instrumentation for research with synchrotron radiation at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Alexander Föhlisch studied physics at Tübingen, received a M.A. in physics with a Fulbright scholarship at SUNY at Stony Brook and concluded his studies at Hamburg University with a diploma thesis in X-ray microscopy. In his Doctoral research the nature of the surface chemical bond was investigated at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley (USA) leading to a PhD in Physics at Uppsala University in the group of Nils Martensson and Anders... [more]
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Eberhardt
Scientific director for Energy Research of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB)
Wolfgang Eberhardt was born in 1950 in Lieser (Germany). He studied physics at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (Diploma 1974) and at the University of Hamburg. He obtained his PhD as a member of the synchrotron radiation research group at DESY in 1978. Afterwards he spent more than 12 years as researcher in the US – first as postdoc and Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, afterwards at Brookhaven... [more]
Dr. Katrin Paschke
The physicist develops compact laser systems by means of laser diodes, micro-optics and crystals
Katrin Paschke, born in 1969, studied physics at the Universities of Potsdam and Konstanz. She started her scientific career in 1998 at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) in Adlershof. In 2006, she completed her Ph.D. on high-brilliance lasers at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) and became already one year later head of FBH"s “Hybrid Laser Systems” group. Her Current Research Topic: Katrin... [more]
Prof. Dr. Ingolf Volker Hertel
Acting as the speaker of the board of IGAFA, the former director of the Max Born Institute has significantly contributed to form the present shape, function and image of Berlin-Adlershof
Ingolf Volker Hertel was born 1941 June 6, and lived in Radebeul during his early childhood. From the age of 10 he grew up in Freiburg in the South-West of Germany. He attended a traditional grammar school, and - finding this boring after some time - he took up an apprenticeship as physics laboratory assistant, studied in Lübeck (at a University of Applied Sciences as it would be called today) and received a degree as engineer of physical... [more]
Prof. Dr. Julia Lossau
Assistant Professor for Cultural Geography at the Department of Geography at Humboldt University
Julia Lossau studied geography at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and gained a first degree (diploma) from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1997. After having completed her PhD thesis on the ‘Politics of Location’ at Bonn University in 2001, she spent 18 months at the Department of Geography and Topographic Science at the University of Glasgow. Having been awarded with a Marie-Curie-Fellowship... [more]
Dr. Olga Smirnova
The atomic physicist is working on developing Attosecond Science at the Max-Born-Institut
Olga Smirnova was born in Moscow and has graduated from the Moscow State University. After completing her PhD in 2000, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Moscow State University. At this time she became interested in the emerging field of Attosecond science, leaving in 2003 to Vienna Technical University as Lise Meitner Fellow, to work with Dr. A. Scrinzi and Prof. F. Krausz. In 2005 she joined another major center for... [more]
Dr. rer. nat. Rudolf J. Schneider
In his working group „Immunochemical Methods“ at BAM everything spins around antibodies
Rudolf Schneider (born in 1963) studied chemistry at the Technical University Munich. By chance, while looking for an interesting topic for his diploma thesis, he stumbled into his present working area: immunoassays. At that time these methods, established in clinical diagnostics and biochemical research, were applied for residue analysis of pesticides. After finishing his PhD he moved on to the University of Bonn, where in 2004 he was... [more]
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Janina Kneipp
Her research interest lies in the utilization of sensitive spectroscopic methods for analytical chemistry
Janina Kneipp received her diploma and doctorate from the Free University Berlin. In her dissertation work she studied brain tissue by means of infrared-microspectroscopy and applied this method successfully to the identification and characterization of prion-diseased nervous tissue. During her postdoctoral research in 2003 at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam and Princeton University’s Chemistry Department she conducted research in the... [more]
Prof. Dr. Matthias Ballauff
Professor for "Soft Matter and Functional Materials" at the Humboldt University Berlin and head of the correspondent Institute at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Professor Dr. Matthias Ballauff, born in Cologne in 1952, finished his PhD thesis „Thermodynamically induced shear degradation of dissolved Polystyrol“ in 1981 at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University Mainz in the working group of Prof. Dr. B. A. Wolf. From 1981 to 1983 he was a Postdoc with Professor P. J. Flory at Stanford University (USA) where he did research in the field of liquid crystalline polymers and defined... [more]
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Panne
Professor for Instrumental Analytical Chemistry at the Humboldt University and director of the department of “Analytical Chemistry; Reference Materials” at the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
Ulrich Panne, born in 1964, studied Chemistry with a focus on Analytical Chemistry at the University Dortmund and the UCL London. He received his diploma in analytical chemistry (1989) and changed for his Ph.D. studies on time-resolved fluorescence sensors to the Technical University Munich. Between 1993 and 1995, he established a new laboratory on „Laser Spectroscopy in Atmospheric Chemistry” at the European Joint Research Center Ispra,... [more]
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Katja Werheid
Assistant professor for Clinical Gerontopsychology at the Department of Psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Since October 2008, Katja Werheid holds an assistant professorship for Clinical Gerontopsychology at the Department of Psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. After studying Psychology in Muenster, Gothemburg/Sweden and Hamburg, she received her PhD in 2001 at the University of Leipzig for her work on cognition in Parkinson’s disease at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. She worked in different research... [more]
Dr. Florin Popescu
Engineer and brain researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST
There, as a postdoc, he's doing research on theoretical questions about machine learning. Seen very practically, his work might one day help people who are paralysed from the neck down, because of a disease for example. These so-called Tetraplegics have no voluntary control below the neck level. Which means that outside of speech, eye movements and their normal brain activity, there would be no way for them to control a prosthesis, even if... [more]
Dr. rer. nat. Moshe Weizman
For his Ph.D thesis the physicist explored the properties of laser-crystallized polycrystalline silicon-germanium (SiGe) layers for thin film solar cells
Born on Febuary 9, 1976 in Jerusalem he received his B.Sc in physics from the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, and wrote his Diploma thesis at the TU Berlin. A scholarship from the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt made it possible for him to obtain his Ph.D degree from the TU Berlin. The experimental research for his Ph.D thesis was performed at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, now renamed Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und... [more]
Prof. Dr. Michael W. Linscheid
Vice president for research at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Michael W. Linscheid was born in Wuppertal in 1948. He studied chemistry at the University of Cologne, and afterwards took his doctoral degree there writing his thesis about “Field Desorption Mass Spectrometry of Nucleic Acid Components”. In 1980 he went to Berkley, University of California, as a research chemist. One year later, he was appointed head of the organic chemistry group at the ISAS (Institute for Analytical Sciences) in... [more]
Dr. Chafik Meliani
Head of the “power amplifiers” group at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik
Chafik Meliani, born 1974 in Algeria, studied semiconductor physics for electronic devices at the University of Blida (Algeria). He received his PhD degree from the Université Denis-Diderot Paris, France. In this framework, he was working at OPTO+ (France-Telecom and Alcatel), where he was involved in further development of III-V semiconductor-based optical communication systems at higher bitrates. Since 2003 he is with the... [more]
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lucht
The newly appointed Alexander von Humboldt professor in Sustainability Science at the Department of Geography at the Humboldt University
The special professorship has been established in co-operation with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Thereabout the scientist is in charge of one of the four fields of research, “Climate Impact and Vulnerability”, with about 100 members of staff. In 1993 the University of Kiel awarded him a PhD in physics for his research about the interplanetary space. Afterwards he spent 5 years in the US, where he worked as a... [more]
Dr. Emad Flear Aziz Bekhit
The 2008 Adlershof Dissertation Award winner works with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Born in Kairo in 1978 the chemist Emad Aziz finished his PhD thesis at BESSY in 2008. His element is water: in the border areas of physics, chemistry and biology Aziz investigates the electronic properties of ions, molecules and polymers in liquids. He received the Ernst-Eckard-Koch-Award 2008 for his PhD thesis submitted at the Freie Universität Berlin. On 4th Feb. 2009, Emad Aziz received the Adlershof Dissertation Award. Research... [more]
Prof. Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers
The physicist is developing terahertz systems for applications in astronomy, planetary research, and civil security at DLR
Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers was born in 1965. He studied Physics and Medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. After receiving the Diploma degree in Physics (1991) he worked on a PhD thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy and the University of Bonn. The topic was Terahertz-Spectroscopy of astronomically relevant molecules. During this time he spent nine month at NIST and NASA Ames Research Center in the... [more]
Dr. Renate Brechel
The educator directed the UniLab Adlershof
Renate Brechel (born 1947) studied at Humboldt University in Berlin from 1965 to 1970 and completed her studies with a degree in pedagogy for mathematics and physics. From 1970 to 1974 she worked as a teacher at the Josef Orlopp School in Berlin Lichtenberg. In 1974 she returned to Humboldt University to complete a doctorate and she was graduated in education science in 1978. From 1978 to 1989 she taught the methodology of teaching... [more]
Dr. Clemens von Korff Schmising
The physicist's PhD thesis in ultrafast X-ray science was awarded the Lise-Meitner-Preis 2009
Clemens von Korff Schmising was born in 1977 in the Rhineland where he also grew up. After his ‘Vordiplom’ (BA) in Bayreuth, Bavaria and a stay abroad in St. Andrews in Scotland he returned to Bonn, where in the framework of this Diploma thesis he started to experiment with ultrashort laser pulses. His interest in nonlinear optics lead him to postgraduate work at the Universities of Sydney and Auckland, before he decided to commence a PhD... [more]
Dr. Bernd Eppich
The physicist works at the Optoelectronics Department of the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik
Bernd Eppich was born in 1963 in Heilbronn. After his physics studies at TU Karlsruhe, he received his diploma about resonators for solid-state tube lasers from the Solid-State Laser Institute at TU Berlin. During this time his investigations on the most important design criteria for resonators, the optimization of beam quality, led him to his doctoral thesis at the Optical Institute at TU Berlin, dealing with theoretical and... [more]
Dr. Atoosa Meseck
The member of BESSY staff works on accelerator physics
Atoosa Meseck, born in Teheran (Iran), studied Physics at Hamburg University. She completed her PhD thesis (Dr. rer. nat) at “Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron” (DESY) in the year 2000 in the area of accelerator physics. The subject of her work was of great importance for the experiments at the electron ring of HERA: „The Electron Distribution in HERA and the Consequences for the H1 Detector after the Luminosity Upgrade“. Following her... [more]
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Mathias Richter
The physicist is head of the department of X-ray metrology using synchrotron radiation at PTB in Berlin-Adlershof.
Mathias Richter, born in 1959 in Marburg, studied physics in his home town from 1978 and graduated later from Hamburg University. Since his diploma thesis carried out in 1983/84 at the Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor (HASYLAB) of the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), the application of synchrotron radiation has represented the central theme of his scientific work. At the beginning of his career, emphasis was laid on atomic... [more]
Prof. Dr. Peter Rudolph
Coordinator of the competence area “Crystal Growth Technology” at the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ)
Peter Rudolph is the coordinator of the competence area “Crystal Growth Technology” at the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) in Berlin-Adlershof. Peter Rudolph (who got his degree as Electrical Engineer at the Technical University of Lvov and subsequently his PhD and Habilitation at the Humboldt University Berlin) became full professor in 1985. He has worked at the Institute of Crystallography and Materials Science of the ... [more]
Dr. Ing. Tatjana Čukić
The nominee for the dissertation prize Adlershof 2008 works as a process and development engineer at Global Solar Energy
Tatjana Čukić, born 1978 in Novi Sad (Serbia), studied Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Technology at the University of Novi Sad. In 2007 she finished her PhD studies at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (branch Berlin) investigating fundamental parameters that control the defined synthesis for a special class of noble metal catalysts. She received her Ph.D. degree with summa cum laude from the Faculty for Informatics and... [more]
Dr. rer. nat. Ingo Will
The physicist at the Max Born Institute works towards the development of various diode-pumped lasers
Ingo Will studied Physics at Warsaw University and at the Humboldt University Berlin. He wrote his doctoral thesis at the former Central Institute of Optics and Spectroscopy Berlin on the optimization oft Nd:Glass laser systems with high output pulse energy. After defending his thesis at the Technical University Berlin, he worked at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics Rochester on the development of large solid-state laser systems which... [more]
Dr. rer. nat. Philippe Wernet
The physicist works as a project and group leader at the electron storage ring BESSY II at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Philippe Wernet was born in 1971 in Strasbourg (France) and grew up in Freiburg. He studied physics at the Technical University of Berlin, in Lyon (France) and at the University of Hamburg. Since his Diplom and PhD work at the Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor HASYLAB at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (PhD in 2000) he has been using x-ray methods at various synchrotron radiation facilities in Germany and in the USA. He is... [more]
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky
Professor for physical and theoretical chemistry at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky studied physics in Zagreb (Croatia) and received her doctoral degree in theoretical chemistry at Johns Hopkins University (USA). After post doctoral research at Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University, New York she obtained habilitation in theoretical chemistry and became professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1994 she is Professor for physical and theoretical chemistry at the... [more]
Dr. rer. nat. Karsten Holldack
The physicist at BESSY works with THz radiation developing new concepts and applications
After studying physics from 1980-1985 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Karsten Holldack finished his PhD on ion implantation in semiconductors in 1987. Gaining experience for one year in semiconductor industry he returned to Humboldt-University as a scientific assistant. Already in 1990 he became a Synchrotron Radiation user at BESSY I in Wilmersdorf. Even changing to a postdoc-position at the University of Heidelberg he continued... [more]
Prof. Dr. Ralf Jaumann
Director of the DLR/NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility and deputy director of the DLR Institute of Planetary Research
Ralf Jaumann was born in Bietigheim-Bissingen in 1954. He studied geology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich (LMU) and earned his doctoral degree there in1989 with a thesis about the chemical and mineralogical composition of lunar surface materials. In 1984 he visited the Mauna Kea Observatory of the University of Hawaii and the United States Geological Survey in Flagstaff for spectral studies of the lunar surface. In 1988 he joined... [more]
Dr. rer. nat. Franziska Emmerling
The chemist at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) works on crystallization and aggregation phenomena by means of synchrotron radiation
Born in Bad Dürkheim in 1975 Franziska Emmerling finished her PhD thesis in inorganic solid state chemistry at the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg in 2003. Her work dealt with the synthesis and structural investigation of intermetallic phases and ternary oxides of the elements arsenic, antimony and bismuth in unusual valence states. After a postdoc fellowship Franziska Emmerling became head of the working group “X-ray Structure... [more]
Pavel Laskov, Ph.D
Project head in the Intelligent Data Analysis department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST
Pavel Laskov was born in 1971 in Moscow/Russia and obtained his first degree in Computer and System Engineering in 1994 at the Moscow Institute of Radio, Electronics and Automation. He then spent the next seven years in the USA where he took his Master of Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Delaware. Since 2001 he has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST in... [more]
Dr. Rutger Schlatmann
Director of the PVcomB – Competence Centre Thin-Film and Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics Berlin
Rutger Schlatmann received his PhD in 1995 at the FOM Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam. He worked for Akzo Nobel Central research afterwards. In 2000, he took a group leader position at Helianthos, where he was made manager of R&D and Quality Control group in 2002. His research work focused on scientific issues regarding the production of amorphous and microcrystalline silicon. Since May 2008, Rutger Schlatman is director of the PVcomB –... [more]
Konstantin Wiegandt, physicist
He is working on his PhD thesis at the Humboldt University in the field of the AdS/CFT correspondence
Konstantin Wiegandt was born in Hamburg in 1981 and grew up in Ahrensburg near Hamburg. After the first year of his studies in Hamburg, he took part in a 1-year exchange program of the Deutsch-Französische Hochschule (German-French University) to receive a German, French and Luxembourgian pre-degree. In this period his prior interest in mathematics and theoretical physics was further stengthened. After his pre-degree he changed to the... [more]
Dr. Natascha Dropka
The chemist works on the KRISTMAG® project at the numerical modelling group of the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ)
Natascha Dropka was born in Novi Sad (Serbia). She graduated in chemical engineering at the University of Novi Sad and received there her MSc and in 1998 her DrSc degree in the cooperation with the University College London and the Faculty of Chemical Technology in Prague. From 1991 to 1999 she worked at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad as a teaching assistant and later as an assistant professor. At the Leibniz Institute for... [more]
Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsässer
Director at the Max-Born-Institute and professor of experimental physics at Humboldt University
Thomas Elsaesser (*1957) studied physics in Heidelberg and at the Technical University of Munich where he received his diploma degree in 1982. At TU Munich, he finished his PhD work on ultrashort infrared spectroscopy in 1986. From 1986 until 1993, he worked at the Physics Department of TU Munich as a research associate. In 1990, he spent a postdoc period at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA, and finished his habilitation at the... [more]
Professor Stefan Hecht, PhD
Professor for Organic Chemistry and functional Materials at the Department of Chemistry of Humboldt University of Berlin
Since October 2006 Stefan Hecht holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry and functional Materials at the Department of Chemistry of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. After his undergraduate studies in chemistry at Humboldt-Universität, he carried out his Ph.D. dissertation work at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., in the area of macromolecular chemistry. As a Sofja Kovalevskaja-Awardee of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, he... [more]
Dr. Klaus Lips
Deputy director of the Institut Silizium-Photovoltaik in the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Klaus Lips, born in 1962 in the Huguenot's village of Carlsdorf-Hofgeismar (Northern Hessen) and grown up in the Netherlands, studied physics in Leiden (NL) as well as in Marburg / Lahn. He did a doctorate in 1994 in Marburg / Lahn with Prof. Dr. Walther Fuhs about “Loss mechanisms in amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) absorber layers of solar cells” for which was distinguished with the “Geiger” award in 2006. After the doctorate he changed to the... [more]
Professor Dr.-Ing. Stefan Jähnichen
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST and the Research Group on Software Engineering at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the TU Berlin
Born in 1947, Stefan Jähnichen took his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin in 1979. Since 1991 he has been Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST (GMD FIRST up to 2001) and the Research Group on Software Engineering at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the TU Berlin. In 2008 he was elected President of the Gesellschaft für... [more]
Dr. Jens Knobloch
The physicist at HZB develops superconducting radio-frequency systems for new light sources and future accelerators
Usually he smiles, the future head of the Institute „SRF-Technology“ at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB). Almost at the same time when BESSY and the Hahn-Meitner Institut merged in 2008 he got appointed for a W3 professorship in the field of accelerator physics but decided to stay in the recently founded Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie early in July. It all started in 1987 when he began to... [more]
Dr. rer. nat. Tom Großmann
The chemist developed a signal amplifying method for molecular gene diagnostics at the Humboldt University of Berlin
He was born in 1978 in Merseburg and studied Chemistry from October 1999 until September 2003 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He moved to the University of California, Berkeley where he performed studies towards the diploma degree under the supervision of Prof. Dr. K. P. C. Vollhardt and Prof. Dr. G. Szeimies. Tom Großmann joined the group of Prof. Dr. O. Seitz at Humboldt University in Berlin-Adlershof in Juli 2004 and obtained the... [more]
Dr. Thorsten Kamps
The physicist works at BESSY on generation and diagnostics of high-brightness electron beams
Accelerators for Charged-Particle Beams play a major role in the scientific career of Thorsten Kamps. Born in 1970, he studied physics at the Technische Universität Dortmund and was soon attracted by experimental particle physics. After the final university examination he pursued a diploma thesis at the research accelerator DELTA. The prospect of working with a like-minded, enthusiastic team on a big and challenging machine was too... [more]
Dr. Hermann A. Dürr
Head of the department Magnetic Dynamics at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Hermann Dürr was born in 1961 in Winterhausen (Germany). He studied physics at the University of Würzburg and the State University of New York at Albany, USA (MSc. 1984, Diploma 1986). In 1990 he obtained his PhD from the University of Bayreuth for work performed at the Max-Planck-Institut for Plasmaphysics at Garching. After postdoctoral stays at Manchester University, UK and as a Feodor-Lynen Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,... [more]
Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Heinz
The mathematician works at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) in Berlin
Sebastian Heinz was born on September 26, 1977 in Berlin and studied mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1998 till 2004. He received the Humboldt award of his university for his diploma thesis. He did his PhD (Dr. rer nat.) in 2008 at the same university within the Research Training Group 1128 “Analysis, Numerics, and Optimization of Multiphase Problems” sponsored by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). His thesis... [more]
Dr. Ulrich Eichmann
The project manager at the Max Born Institute investigates fundamental mechanisms in the ionization dynamics of isolated particles in strong and strongest laser fields
Ulrich Eichmann, born in Münster , studied physics initially at the TU Berlin, then moved to University of Freiburg. After receiving his diploma in1984 and a research period in 1986 at the University of Virginia, USA, he finished his doctoral work in 1990 with novel results on laser spectroscopic investigations of fundamental three body Coulomb systems. He continued his scientific work as a research assistant (C1) and as project leader in... [more]
Dr. Erik T. J. Nibbering
Department Head for femtosecond spectroscopy of molecular systems at the Max Born Institute
Having received his education in the Netherlands, he acquired in 1993 his Ph.D. at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen on the subject on femtosecond optical dephasing and solvation dynamics in liquids. During a postdoctoral stay at the Laboratoire d"Optique Appliqueé − E.N.S.T.A. − École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) he investigated nonlinear propagation phenomena of intense femtosecond laser pulses. Since 1995 he... [more]
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sandner
Director at the Max-Born-Institut and President Elect of the German Physical Society (DPG)
Wolfgang Sandner, born 1949, studied physics at the Universität Freiburg. Following a PhD in atomic physics he started working with lasers in 1979 as a postdoc at SRI International (Stanford Reserach Institute) in Meno Park, USA. After 1985 he held professorships in Würzburg (Germany) and Freiburg before accepting a tenured full professor position in 1991 at the University of Tennesse, USA. Only two years later he was appointed director at the... [more]
Prof. Dr. Norbert Koch
Professor for "Supramolecular Systems" at the Institut für Physik at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Norbert Koch studied Physics at the Technische Universität Graz and was also awarded his doctor’s degree there. After spending one year as scientific assistant at the Joanneum Research GmbH in Weiz, he spent two years as postdoc at Princeton University. In 2003 he joined the Institut für Physik at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he led the Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group “Supramolecular Systems with Large Energy Level... [more]
Dr. Ralph Wernsdorf
The mathematician at the Rohde & Schwarz SIT GmbH works on block ciphers
Ralph Wernsdorf studied mathematics of the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and got his degrees in 1980 (Diploma) and 1983 (Ph.D). He is an employee of Rohde & Schwarz SIT GmbH, which is located in Berlin-Adlershof since 2002. The company develops and offers encryption solutions for secure communications in critical infrastructures. Examples can be seen in the figure: Equipment which protects phone calls against eavesdropping and sensitive... [more]
Dr. Thomas Schultz
The project leader at the Max Born Institute investigates the photochemistry of DNA
Thomas Schultz was born 1971 in Washington D.C. and grew up in rural southern Germany, close to the picturesque university town of Tübingen. After studying chemistry in Switzerland, he acquired a PhD from the ETH Zürich in 1999 with the investigation of exited states in small hydrocarbon radicals. He then moved to Canada and spent three years as Research Fellow of the National Research Council, a time dedicated to the study of... [more]
Professor Dr. Stefan Eisebitt
Head of the joint research group “Functional Nanomaterials” at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
After three years of PhD studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, Stefan Eisebitt obtained his PhD in Physics in collaboration with the Research Center Jülich at the University of Cologne in 1996. In his thesis he focused on the structure-function relationship in semiconductor nanostructures. X-ray spectroscopy and x-ray scattering were also dominating in his further research as a staff scientist at the Institute for Solid... [more]
Prof. Dr. Susanne Albers
Professor for Algorithms and Complexity in the Department of Computer Science at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Susanne Albers studied mathematics, computer science and business administration at the university of Osnabrück. In 1993 she received her PhD degree from the University of Saarland as member of the first Research Training Group in Computer Science funded by the German Research Foundation. Thereafter she worked as research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken. In 1998/1999, she was a visiting professor... [more]
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Dr. Gerhard Ulm
Head of the scientific division called “Temperature and Synchrotron Radiation” at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Gerhard Ulm was born near Rothenburg ob der Tauber. He studied physics at the University of Würzburg. After his diploma he changed to GSI (Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt) and started the field of laser spectroscopy on radionuclids generated after fusion of heavy ions. With this subject he earned his PhD at the University of Mainz. Thereafter he moved to Geneva and worked at the mass separator ISOLDE at CERN in various... [more]
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