Jörg Wrachtrup

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Jörg Wrachtrup (2016)

Jörg Wrachtrup (born December 27, 1961 in Herford ) is a German physicist .

Life

Wrachtrup grew up in the Vlotho district of Exter . After attending the local primary school, he graduated from the Weser-Gymnasium Vlotho in 1981 . At high school, he was particularly interested in the subjects of mathematics and physics and took corresponding advanced courses . In 1983, after completing his military service , he went to the Free University of Berlin , where he received his doctorate . After the fall of the Berlin Wall he moved to Chemnitz . He completed his habilitation in 1998 at the Institute of Physics at Chemnitz University of Technology with a thesis on optical spectroscopy on individual quantum systems in the solid state. In 2009 he reported on his research on heise-online telepolis . Today he is a professor at the 3rd Physics Institute at the University of Stuttgart .

According to Google Scholar, Jörg Wrachtrup has an h-index of 92, according to the Scopus database it is 76 (as of June 2020).

Wrachtrup is married and has one son.

Honors

  • In 1995, Jörg Wrachtrup received the Ernst Reuter Prize for his dissertation: Magnetic resonance on individual molecules and coherent ODMR spectroscopy on molecular aggregates in solids .
  • At the beginning of January 2011, his work on research into the use of atomic defects in diamonds for quantum technology was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council worth 2.4 million euros.
  • In December 2011 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , endowed with 2.5 million euros, by the German Research Foundation for opening up a completely new and very successful research area at the interface between solid state physics and quantum optics .
  • For 2014 he was awarded the Max Planck Research Prize.
  • In 2016, Wrachtrup was the first recipient of the Zeiss Research Award .
  • In 2017 he was awarded a second Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council worth 2.5 million euros.
  • In 2018 he was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .
  • In 2020 he was awarded the gold medal of the International EPR Society.
  • Wrachtrup was also awarded the CMD Europhysics Prize in 2020 .
  • 2014-to-date Highly Cited Researcher.

Publications

  • Dissertation 1994: Magnetic resonance on single molecules and coherent ODMR spectroscopy on molecular aggregates in solids , (microfiche edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quotation: TU Chemnitz: Press Office: Uni aktuell , accessed on December 17, 2011
  2. ^ TU Chemnitz: Press Office: Uni aktuell , accessed on December 17, 2011
  3. ^ Jörg Wrachtrup at Google Scholar ; accessed on June 4, 2020.
  4. ↑ Jörg Wrachtrup at Scopus ; accessed on June 4, 2020.
  5. ↑ 4.8 million euros for pioneering research in quantum computers , Press Release No. 5 of January 21, 2011, accessed on March 16, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Wrachtrup, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford