Gerd Leuchs
Gerhard ("Gerd") Leuchs (born June 14, 1950 in Wuppertal ) is a German experimental physicist in the field of optics .
Career
Leuchs studied physics and mathematics in Cologne from 1970 to 1975 and graduated with a diploma. He went to the physics department of the University of Munich as an assistant , where he received his doctorate in 1978 with an investigation into the fine structure splitting of sodium Rydberg states . In 1980/81 he was a visiting fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder (Colorado). In 1982 he completed his habilitation in Munich and returned to Boulder the following year as a Heisenberg scholar .
From 1985 to 1989 he was head of the gravitational wave group at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching. He then moved to the Swiss industrial company Nanomach AG as technical director. From 1986 to 1994 he was a private lecturer at the University of Munich. In 1994 he accepted a call to a C4 professorship at the Physics Institute of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . From 2003 to 2009 he headed the Max Planck Research Group for Optics, Information and Photonics, which was converted into the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in 2009 . Since then he has been director of a department there.
His main research interests are nano-optics and microscopy, optical communication and quantum information processing with light.
Honors
- 2005: Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize of the European Physical Society
- 2005: Admission to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2012: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2017: Julius von Haast Fellowship Award from the Royal Society of New Zealand
- 2018: Herbert Walther Prize of the German Physical Society
- 2018: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Web links
- Newly elected members 2005 , German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (PDF; 2.1 MB)
- Gerd Leuchs on Academia.edu
- Short biography at the Max Planck Society
- Optics and Information - Leuch's Division. In: www.mpl.mpg.de. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
- Literature by and about Gerd Leuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leuchs, Gerd |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leuchs, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German experimental physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |