Christian Thomsen (physicist)

Christian Thomsen (April 2017)

Thomsen as a speaker at Fridays for Future on July 19, 2019 in Invalidenpark

Christian Thomsen (born July 22, 1959 in Bern ) is a German physicist , university professor and President of the Technical University of Berlin since April 1, 2014 .

Life

Thomsen completed a Studium generale at the Leibniz Kolleg in Tübingen from 1978 to 1979 , then studied at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , where he completed his intermediate diploma in 1981 , and then at Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island , where he obtained a Ph. D. PhD in physics .

In 1991 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Munich . Since 1994 he has been teaching at the Technical University of Berlin at the Institute for Solid State Physics. From 1997 to 1999 he was Vice President for Teaching and Studies. From 2003 to 2014 he was Dean of Faculty II - Mathematics and Natural Science. On January 8, 2014, he was elected 9th President of the TU Berlin (effective April 1, 2014). He has been a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( acatech ) since 2016 .

In 1991 he received the Walter Schottky Prize of the German Physical Society .

public perception

As President of the TU Berlin, Christian Thomsen publicly showed his solidarity several times with the demands of Fridays for Future and Scientists for Future :

“The Fridays for Future movement is right, it is important, it is important for our future. [...] Many students and scientists are getting involved, and the university management of the TU Berlin joins the demands of the Fridays for Future movement. [...] Science, politics, business and civil society must now act together. "

He called for an active role of science in communicating its research results, increased transdisciplinary discourse and initiative on the part of researchers.

As an author, he wrote textbooks in the For Dummies series , which is intended to facilitate entry into primarily technical topics.

Works (selection)

• A year for physics: Newton, Feynman and others (with Hans-Eckhart Gumlich ), 2nd edition, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-928943-94-4
• Physics for engineers for dummies , Weinheim 2011, ISBN 978-3527706228
• Thermodynamics formulas for dummies , Weinheim 2014, ISBN 978-3527709922

Web links

• Institute for Solid State Physics: CV Prof. Dr. C. Thomsen
• The presidential election team , accessed April 1, 2014
• Christian Thomsen elected the new President of the TU Berlin Berliner Morgenpost January 8, 2014
• TU Berlin elects new president Physicist Thomsen prevails, Steinbach is subject to Tagesspiegel January 8, 2014 by Tilmann Warnecke
• Christian Thomsen, new President of the TU Berlin “The university is convincing” Tagesspiegel January 10, 2014 by Anja Kühne

Individual evidence

1. ^ Institute for Solid State Physics , accessed on April 1, 2014
2. ↑ Institute for Solid State Physics: Prof. Dr. C. Thomsen , accessed April 1, 2014
3. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. C. Thomson. Retrieved October 16, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Christian Thomsen becomes the new President of the TU Berlin January 8, 2014
5. ^ Elections at the TU Berlin
6. ↑ Stefanie Terp: TU President Thomsen: "Fridays-For-Future movement is right and important". TU President speaks at the Berlin demo next to Greta Thunberg. TU Presidium endorses the demands of the Fridays for Future movement. In: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft idw online. Technische Universität Berlin, July 19, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Stefanie Terp: TU President calls for action. “Society and the climate challenge us”. In: Tagesspiegel Online. Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, October 1, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Christian Thomsen: Have courage, dear colleagues. Why science has to be loud. Universities for Future. Where science interferes professionally and objectively, politics cannot escape. A plea from the President of the TU Berlin. In: Tagesspiegel Online. Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, October 10, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019 .