Bärbel Rethfeld

Bärbel Christine Rethfeld (born June 19, 1970 in Bremen ) is a German physicist who has held a Heisenberg Professorship for Applied Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern since 2013 . Her main field of work is the ultra-short-term dynamics of laser-excited solids .

life and career

Bärbel Rethfeld graduated from the Schwanewede forest school in Lower Saxony in 1989 . She studied physics at the TU Braunschweig , where she received her diploma in 1995 . With the support of the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation , Rethfeld then worked at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow . In 1999 she did her doctorate at the TU Braunschweig on the subject of microscopic processes in the interaction of solids in the sub-picosecond range .

From 1999 to 2001 Rethfeld worked on a postdoc position at the Institute for Laser and Plasma Physics at the University of Essen . From 2001 to 2005 she received a Lise Meitner scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and then from 2006 to 2007 she worked as a research assistant at the Society for Heavy Ion Research at TU Darmstadt . From 2007 to 2013 she headed an Emmy Noether junior research group at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and was appointed to a Heisenberg professorship in 2013 as the first female scientist in Rhineland-Palatinate . She is one of the few female physicists in Germany who has been awarded this prestigious professorship by the German Research Foundation .

Rethfeld has been married since 1996 and is the mother of two children.

with ST Weber: Phonon-induced long-lasting nonequilibrium in the electron system of a laser-excited solid. In: Physical Revue. B 99, 174314 (2019).
with I. Klett: Relaxation of a nonequilibrium phonon distribution induced by femtosecond laser irradiation. In: Physical Revue. B 98, 144306 (2018).
with DS Ivanov, ME Garcia, SI Anisimov: Modeling ultrafast laser ablation. In: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 50, 19 (2017).
with A. Rämer, N. Brouwer, N. Medvedev, O. Osmani: Electron dynamics and energy dissipation in highly excited dielectrics. In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. B 327, 78 (2014)
Free-electron generation in laser-irradiated dielectrics. In: Contributions to Plasma Physics. 47, 360-367, (2007).

personal data
SURNAME	Rethfeld, Bärbel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rethfeld, Bärbel Christine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen