Jörg Peter Kotthaus

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Jörg Peter Kotthaus (born May 29, 1944 in Graefenthal ) is a German university professor and physicist. His scientific work focuses on the areas of experimental solid-state physics, semiconductor physics and nanotechnology. Since 1989 he has been a professor at the Faculty of Physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Live and act

Kotthaus was born the son of the businessman Erich Kotthaus and his wife Annemarie (née Leistenschneider). After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf in 1963 , he studied physics at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Munich , where he obtained his diploma in 1969. In 1972 he received his doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara as a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.).

After returning to Germany, he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich from 1973 to 1978, where he completed his habilitation in 1977. In 1978 he followed a call to the chair for applied physics at the University of Hamburg . In 1989 he returned to Munich and took over a newly established chair for experimental physics - semiconductor physics - at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU).

Kotthaus has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1989 . He is the initiator and co-founder of 1998 on at LMU Munich interdisciplinary Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), which he coordinated by 1998 to 2006 as a speaker, and the as part of the Excellence Initiative of the federal and state funded since 2006 Research Cluster Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM ).

Awards

He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2009) and a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech (since 2010).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopoldina: Newly elected members 2009 (PDF file)

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personal data
SURNAME Kotthaus, Jörg Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefenthal