Alfred Forchel

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Alfred Forchel (born August 13, 1952 in Stuttgart ) is a German physicist and has been President of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg since 2009 .

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Forchel is a full professor for physics at the University of Würzburg and has held the chair for technical physics there since 1990. His field of work is nanotechnology . After winning the election on February 2, 2009, he has been President of the University of Würzburg since October 1, 2009. Forchel's second term began on October 1, 2015.

It was in 1982 at the University of Stuttgart with a thesis on Thermodynamic Properties of optically excited electron-hole plasma in semiconductors doctorate . The habilitation took place in 1988, also in Stuttgart, with a thesis on dimension-dependent electronic properties of semiconductor structures .

In 1990, Alfred Forchel accepted a professorship for technical physics in Würzburg. He took over the management of the microstructure laboratory, which opened in 1994.

Forchel is one of the creators of the nanostructure technology course, which was set up in the 2000/2001 winter semester, and is the first engineering course at the University of Würzburg. Forchel was the spokesperson for the “Nanotechnology Cluster” funded by the Bavarian State Government as part of the “Allianz Bayern Innovativ” initiative, which started work at the end of 2006.

In 2008, together with colleagues from Würzburg from the chemistry and physics faculties , he initiated and pushed ahead with the realization of a new center for nanotechnology , which is to be built on the Hubland campus . After all, Forchel is also one of the initiators of the Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Research Center , which is funded as part of the special “Bavaria excellent” program. The upcoming establishment of a North Bavarian user center for ultra-high-resolution analysis was also significantly supported by Forchel.

criticism

On June 20, 2012, the student union at the University of Würzburg published an open letter in which University President Alfred Forchel was criticized for his dealings with the student union.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University President re-elected University President re-elected ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 29, 2016
  2. ↑ Main-Post: Election as a secret matter of command (February 20, 2015)
  3. ↑ Hans Zehetmair : Address by the Bavarian State Minister for Science, Research and Art on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the founding of the University of Würzburg. Würzburg medical history reports 21, 2002, pp. 562–564; here p. 563
  4. ↑ Information about the Nanostructural Technology course at the University of Würzburg ( Memento from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 12, 2015
  5. ↑ Mainpost article on the open letter from the student union to University President Alfred Forchel
personal data
SURNAME Forchel, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart