Erich Runge

Erich Runge (* 1959 in Wiesbaden ) is a German theoretical solid-state physicist .

Erich Runge, who won the national mathematics competition in 1977, studied physics and mathematics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1979 with his diploma in 1984 under Reiner Dreizler and from 1985 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart , where he received his doctorate in 1990 (Quasiparticles and Fermi surfaces for heavy fermion systems). As a post-doctoral student , he worked with Henry Ehrenreich at Harvard University until 1993 . From 1993 he did research with Roland Zimmermann at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 2001 with a thesis on the optical properties of localized excitons in semiconductor nanostructures. From 2001 to 2004 he was at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden and from 2004 he was a professor at the TU Ilmenau . From 2007 to 2010 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and since 2011 Director of the Institute for Physics.

A work by him and Eberhard Groß from 1984 established the time-dependent density functional theory ( Runge-Gross theorem ). He further deals with nano-optics, ultrafast optics, plasmonics, coupling of light and matter in photovoltaic systems, band structure calculations, quantum coherence, frustrated and disordered systems, highly correlated electron systems, exciton transport, numerical materials science and methods of many-particle theory.

From 2011 he was head of the DPG's semiconductor physics association.

Fonts

• with Eberhard Groß: Many Particle Theory, Teubner 1986
• with E. Gross: Density functional theory for time-dependent systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 52, 1984, p. 997

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