Heinrich Jaeger (physicist)

Heinrich Martin Jaeger (born May 15, 1957 in Flensburg ) is a German-American physicist who deals with experimental solid-state physics (e.g. superconductivity, mesoscopic structures) and soft matter (especially granular matter). He is a professor at the University of Chicago .

Jaeger studied up to his intermediate diploma in 1979 at the University of Kiel , made his master’s degree at the University of Minnesota in 1982 (he was there with a Fulbright scholarship) and received his doctorate there in 1987 in physics with Allen Goldman (on ultra-thin superconducting layers). As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Chicago until 1989 and then at the Center for Submicron Technology at the TU Delft until 1991 . In 1991 he became an Assistant Professor, 1996 Associate Professor and 2000 Professor at the University of Chicago.

Jaeger was director of the Materials Research Center at the University of Chicago from 2001 to 2006 and director of the James Franck Institute from 2007 to 2010. Since 2010 he has been William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Professor of Physics.

Among other things, he researches self-assembling nanoparticle structures, the rheology of dense suspensions, and the packing and flow of granular materials.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2002), was a Packard Fellow in 1991 and a Sloan Research Fellow from 1992 to 1994 . In 1987 he was a James Franck Fellow at the University of Chicago and in 1988 Arthur Compton Lecturer. In 2018 Jaeger was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

• Heinrich Jaeger, Sidney Nagel, Robert Behringer Granular Solids, Liquids and Gases , Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 68, 1996, pp. 1259-1273

Web links

• Website at his laboratory
• Videos by and about Heinrich Jaeger (physicist) in the AV portal of the Technical Information Library