Bernhard Dick

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Bernhard Dick (born December 8, 1953 in Cologne ) is a German chemist and university professor.

Life

Bernhard Dick studied chemistry at the University of Cologne from 1972 to 1977 . In 1981 he was in Cologne with Georg Hohlneicher to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . After a research assistant in 1981/1982 in Cologne, he was a Post Doc at the University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, USA at the RM Hochstrasser chair from 1982 to 1984 . In 1984 he switched to the Department of Laser Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen . In 1990 he qualified as a professor for physical chemistry at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1992, he received a call to the chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Regensburg ; also director of the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

Dick is a member of the Chemical Physics Advisory Editorial Board. He is also involved in the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry . Bernhard Dick is the Liaison Lecturer at the Cusanuswerk - Episcopal Student Support .

Bernhard Dick is a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Rheno Baltia zu Cologne and the KDStV Rupertia Regensburg, both in the CV .

Services

Dick's main research areas are laser spectroscopy , photophysics and photochemistry of molecules (e.g. dyes) and nonlinear optical materials (computer simulations).

He is active as the spokesman for the Graduate School Sensory Photoreceptors in Natural and Artificial Systems at the University of Regensburg, funded by the German Research Foundation . Researchers at the graduate school were instrumental in researching the six groups of photoreceptors : rhodopsins , phytochromes , xanthopsins , cryptochromes , phototropins and the so-called BLUF proteins . The last four groups are blue light receptors that absorb light between 400 and 500 nanometers in wavelength. The last three of these characterize a flavin- based photochemistry.

honors and awards

  • 1981 University Prize from the University of Cologne
  • 1990 Nernst Prize of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Changes through light (PDF) In: Graduate Schools of the German Research Foundation . Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Dick, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne