Karl Leo
Karl Leo (born July 10, 1960 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German physicist.
Life
After graduating from high school in 1979 in St. Georgen in the Black Forest and completing his military service in 1980 at the University of Freiburg, Leo began studying physics, which he completed in 1985 with a thesis at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems . He went in 1986 for his doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and received his doctorate in 1988 at the University of Stuttgart . After two years as an Otto Hahn scholarship holder at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel ( New Jersey ), he went to the Institute for Semiconductor Technology at RWTH Aachen University and completed his habilitation in 1993. In the 1993/94 winter semester, he received a C4 professorship for optoelectronics at the Institute for Applied photophysics at the Technical University of Dresden , which he has headed since then (with an interruption from 2003 to 2006). From 2001 to 2013 he also worked for the Fraunhofer Society, most recently as director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Organics, Materials and Electronic Components COMEDD in Dresden.
He is married and has two children.
Services
Leo works in the field of semiconductor optics and the physics of thin organic layers. In 1992 he succeeded in generating and demonstrating the Bloch oscillations in a semiconductor superlattice, an effect that was long considered undetectable. With organic solids he realized new component concepts, u. a. organic light emitting diodes with the world's lowest operating voltages. In 2002 Leo was awarded the Leibniz Prize , the most highly endowed German research prize. He is co-founder of the company Heliatek GmbH (Dresden / Ulm), which deals with the development and production of organic solar cells.
Awards
- Otto Hahn Medal , Max Planck Society , 1989
- Rudolf von Bennigsen Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1992
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , German Research Foundation , 2002
- Member of the Leopoldina , 2004
- German Future Prize , 2011
- Hector Science Award and member of the Hector Fellow Academy , 2014
Web links
- Homepage of Karl Leo at the IAPP
- Acknowledgment of the DFG ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Karl Leo: A counter-speech to e-car pessimism , Axis of the Good , October 15, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Karl Leo (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 17, 2016.
- ↑ Awarding of the Hector Science Prize
- ^ Founding ceremony of the Hector Fellow Academy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leo, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |