Alejandro Muramatsu

Alejandro Muramatsu (born December 12, 1951 in Argentina ; † November 16, 2015 in Stuttgart ) was an Argentine - German physicist .

Life

After studying physics in Buenos Aires , Muramatsu started a PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart . With his dissertation theory of the metal-insulator transition and the electron - phonon interaction on semiconductor surfaces , he was from the 1981 Stuttgart University doctorate . He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and at the University of Santa Barbara .

In 1986 Muramatsu began his work at the University of Würzburg , completed his habilitation there in 1989 and made important contributions to high-temperature superconductivity . After an appointment at the University of Augsburg in 1994 , he was appointed to the University of Stuttgart in 1996 , where he headed the Institute for Theoretical Physics III until his death . As a solid-state physicist , he recognized the potential of ultracold gases for research into complex quantum many-particle systems early on and made important contributions to the physics of ultracold gases in optical lattices .

Most recently, Muramatsu was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Stuttgart. He advised Forschungszentrum Jülich on supercomputing and the Computational Science Research Center in Beijing .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice Alejandro Muramatsu in: Stuttgarter Zeitung , November 28, 2015 (accessed April 11, 2016).
2. ↑ Fakher F. Assaad, Salvatore R. Manmana, Reinhard M. Noack, Marcos Rigol, Stefan Wessel: Obituary for Alejandro Muramatsu . In: Physics Journal . tape 15 , no. 4 , 2016, p. 52 ( pro-physik.de ).