Institut für Theoretische Physik
Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Max-von-Laue-Straße 1
D-60438 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Max-von-Laue-Straße 1
D-60438 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
| Born: | 07.24.1936 | Stuttgart |
| Education: | ||
| 1942-1946 | Basic School in Stuttgart | |
| 1946-1952 | High School in Stuttgart | |
| 1952-1955 | Apprenticeship as toolmaker at the Company C. and E. Fein, Stuttgart | |
| 1955-1957 | High School in Stuttgart (Abitur) | |
| Study of Physics at the Universities: | ||
| 1957-1959 | Universität Stuttgart | |
| 1959-1960 | Technische Universität Berlin | |
| 1960-1966 | Universität Stuttgart | |
| 1959-1966 | Supported by the merit foundation "Villigst" | |
| Degrees: | ||
| 1959 | Vordiplom (Bachelor) Uni. Stuttgart | |
| 1964 | Diplom (Master), Uni. Stuttgart, supervisor Prof. Dr. H. Haken | |
| 1966 | Dr. rer. nat. (Ph. D.), Uni. Stuttgart, supervisor Prof. Dr. H. Haken | |
| Professional activities and occupations: | ||
| 1966-1967 | Research Assistant, Inst. f. Theoret. Physik, Uni. Stuttgart | |
| 1967-1969 | Staff member, Electr. Engineering Dep., Uni. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 1967 Assistant Prof., 1969 Associate Prof. (with tenure) | |
| 1969-1973 | Scientific staff member, Philips Research Lab., Eindhoven, Netherlands | |
| 1973-1975 | Prof. (C3) (Associate Prof.), Inst. f. Theoret. Physik, Uni. Frankfurt | |
| 1974-1975 | Visiting Prof., Inst. f. Struktur d. Materie, Uni. Karlsruhe | |
| from 1975 | Prof. (C4) (Full Prof.), Inst. f. Theoret. Physik, Uni. Frankfurt | |
| 1976 | Visiting Prof., Inst. f. Solid State Physics, Uni. Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1980 | Visiting scientist, IBM Research Lab., San Jose, Cal., USA | |
| 1983 | Visiting Prof., Physics Dep., Uni. of Campinas, Brasil | |
| 1984 | Visiting Prof., Physics Dep., Indiana Uni., Bloomington, USA | |
| 1984-1987 | Member Comité de Direction des Laboratoires de Spectroscopie et d'Optique du Corps Solides, Uni. Strasbourg, France | |
| 1985-1991 | Coeditor of J. Luminescence | |
| 1987 | Visiting scientist, AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA | |
| 1987 | Visiting Prof., Uni. Strasbourg, France | |
| 1988 | Visiting Prof. and Adjunct Prof. (87-91), Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA | |
| 1988 | Lecturer at the Internat. School of Lasers and Quantum Optics, Mar del Plata, Argentina | |
| 1988 | Director of the Nato-Workshop on "Optical Switching in Low-Dimensional Systems", Marbella, Spain | |
| 1992 | Organizer of the "III Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Optics and Excitation Kinetics in Semiconductors", Bad Honnef, Germany | |
| 1995 | Speaker of the DFG-Schwerpunkt "Quantenkohärenz in Halbleitern" | |
| 1995 | Dean of the Faculty of Physics (Dekan des Fachbereiches Physik) at the University Frankfurt | |
| 2001 | Devisional Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters | |
| 2001 | Emeritus | |
| 2008 | Selected by the American Pysical Society as "Outstanding Referee" | |
| 2009 | Member of the 'POLATOM Research Networking Programme' Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation | |
| 2012 | Carl Wilhelm Fück-Price for Active Senior Professors of the Frankfurt Merit Foundation for Fundamental Physics Research and of the Department of Physics, Goethe-University Frankfurt | |
| 2015 | Organizer of the European Network Meeting POLATOM2015, Bad Honnef, sponsored by the European Sciences Foundation | |
| Research fields: | ||
| Solid state physics - particularly semiconductor physics-, many-body theory, non-equilibrium theory, quantum kinetics, synergetics and nonlinear dynamics, quantum optics and nonlinear optics, laser theory, non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensations, low-temperature physics. |