Ludwig Schultz

Ludwig Schultz (born May 18, 1947 in Meißen ) is a German physicist and materials scientist. He is Professor of Metallic Materials and Metal Physics at the TU Dresden and was Director of the Institute for Metallic Materials at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) in Dresden and Scientific Director of IFW Dresden from 2008 to 2013 .

Schultz studied physics from 1966 at the University of Göttingen with a diploma in 1971 and received his doctorate there in 1976 under Peter Haasen (dissertation: Flux Pinning in Superconductors by Regularly or Statistically Distributed Precipitates ). In 1979 he was a post-doctoral student at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights and from 1980 a scientist at Siemens in their research laboratories in Erlangen. From 1989 to 1993 he headed the department for high-temperature superconductors and magnetic materials. In addition, he taught as an honorary lecturer at the University of Augsburg. Since 1993 he has been a professor at the TU Dresden. In 2014 he retired.

Among other things, he deals with superconducting materials and superconducting levitation systems. He also deals with magnetic materials (and thin magnetic layers), metallic glasses and nanocrystalline materials.

From 2011 to 2012 he was chairman of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . He also supported the establishment of the young DPG in Dresden.

Awards

• 2006: Heyn commemorative coin of the German Society for Material Science
• 2006: Science Prize: Society Needs Science
• 2009: European Materials Medal of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS)
• 2010: DPG badge of honor
• Honorary member of the German Society for Material Science (DGM)

Fonts

• as editor with Hermann-Friedrich Wagner (ed.): The world behind things. Physics highlights. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2005, ISBN 3-527-40624-7 .

Web links

• IFW Dresden
• Highest award for materials research to Ludwig Schultz, DPG, Welt der Physik 2009