Annette Zippelius
Annette Zippelius (born June 25, 1949 ) is a German physicist.
Professional background
Annette Zippelius studied physics at the Technical University of Munich and at the University of Colorado in Boulder (USA), where she earned her master's degree. She did her doctorate in 1976 at the Technical University of Munich with the thesis A kinetic theory of classical liquids . She then worked as a postdoc at Harvard for two years and at Cornell for one year . In 1982 she completed her habilitation in Munich. From 1983 she worked at the Research Center Jülich .
Since 1988 she has held a chair for theoretical physics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . This makes her the first female C4 physics professor in the Federal Republic of Germany. Her research areas are highly complex physical and biological systems such as spin glasses and neural networks . She also worked closely with Erwin Neher , who later won the Nobel Prize for Medicine .
Memberships
Annette Zippelius is a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and from February 2005 to 2011 she was a member of the Science Council in Germany. From 2007 to 2014 Annette Zippelius was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization , which combined research opportunities at this MPI and the management of a working group. Fellow status was extended in 2011. In 2007 she became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) .
family
Her mother was the behavioral biologist Hanna-Maria Zippelius , her father the folklorist and museum director Adelhart Zippelius . The grandmother was the painter Dora Horn-Zippelius .
honors and awards
- 1998 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for the "construction of an exactly solvable network model that has the functional properties of an associative memory"
- 2005 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
- 2017 Wilhelm Ostwald Medal from the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig
- 2017 Senior Professorship at the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
Web links
- Literature by and about Annette Zippelius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Annette Zippelius on the homepage of the institute of the University of Göttingen
swell
- ↑ Annette Zippelius: A kinetic theory of classical liquids . ( dnb.de [accessed December 5, 2019]).
- ↑ Göttingen City Archives: Chronicle for the year 1988
- ↑ Annette Zippelius at the MPI archive link ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Scientific awards. In: theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de. April 22, 2006, Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Delivery of the medal | Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
- ^ Wilhelm Ostwald Medal - Saxon Academy of Sciences. Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Annette Zippelius appointed senior professor. Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Zippelius, Annette |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1949 |