Martha Lux-Steiner

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Martha Christina Lux-Steiner , née Steiner (born December 18, 1950 in Bern ), is a Swiss physicist. From 1995 to 2016 she was the first professor at the Physics Department at Freie Universität Berlin . Martha Lux-Steiner has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

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Early years

Martha Steiner grew up in Eastern Switzerland from 1952 . She attended high school at the St. Gallen Cantonal School. From 1970 to 1975 she studied physics and mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), where she completed her undergraduate studies at the Institute for Biomedical Technology with a diploma on computed tomography. She then moved to the Institute for Toxicology at ETH Zurich, where she worked from 1977 to 1980 on her doctoral thesis on ICP-OES with the title “Development and application of inductively coupled high-frequency plasma as an emission spectroscopic measuring method for trace element analysis in organic material”. Steiner carried out all of the experiments at what was then the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (NatLab) in Eindhoven / Netherlands . For this work, she received a doctorate from the ETH Zurich in 1981 .

In addition to her scientific work, from 1987 to 1995 she was a certified ski instructor at the St. Gallen Ski School and later in the Swabian Ski Association .

Scientific career

As early as 1980 she accepted a position as a scientist at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Konstanz . Her R&D topics focused on the single crystal growth of new semiconductor materials and high temperature superconductors as well as the epitaxy of metal / metal and metal / insulator multilayers and their possible uses in optoelectronics with a focus on photovoltaics and in solar thermal , especially in high temperature solar collectors and in thermoelectric generators . From 1990 to 1991 Lux-Steiner interrupted her activities in order to obtain a visiting scholarship for a research stay at Princeton University , Dept. of Electrical Engineering (USA). After returning and completing her habilitation at the University of Konstanz with “venia legendi in experimental physics”, she was appointed associate professor at the Faculty of Physics.

In 1995 Martha Lux-Steiner was appointed full professor at the Free University of Berlin in connection with a position as head of the Heterogeneous Material Systems department in the field of solid-state physics at the then Hahn-Meitner Institute (HMI), Berlin. With the chair she was the first female professor in the physics department of the Free University of Berlin . After the merger of HMI and BESSY and the resulting reorganization within the resulting Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB), she led her activities as director of the Institute for Heterogeneous Material Systems in the field of solar energy at HZB until her retirement in 2016 away.

Awards

In 1999 Martha Lux-Steiner received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class, from the then Federal President Johannes Rau at Bellevue Palace in Berlin “for her scientific achievements in the field of solar energy generation and her special commitment to regional cooperation between industry and research”.

Further prizes and honors

  • 1990 guest scholarship for a one-year research stay at Princeton University , Department of Electrical Engineering.
  • 2004 Hahn Meitner Technology Transfer Prize
  • 2015 German Solar Prize 2015 in the form of the “Special Prize for Personal Commitment” for her life's work as a committed scientist in energy research and teaching
  • 2016 nomination for the teaching award of the FU Berlin 2015

Memberships, reviewing activities and honorary positions (selection)

Ongoing

  • Founding member of the ILTIS-Remote Laboratories association since 2017.
  • Since 2013 member of the expert committee of the research and technology program e! MISSION.at - Energy Mission Austria for the provision of safe, sustainable and affordable energy of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
  • since 2012 member of the steering group of NRP 70 “Energy Turnaround” of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • since 2009 founder and academic director of the International Summer University for Renewable Energies (ISU energy ) in Falera, Switzerland
  • since 2008 member of the jury and chairwoman of the EXIST research transfer of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy BMWi
until 2016  
until 2007

bibliography

  • Martha Lux-Steiner, HH Hohl: Collection of exercises on solid state physics. Springer-Verlag, 1994. ISBN 978-3-642-78288-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biomedical engineering and neuroinformatics
  2. ^ Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology at ETH Zurich
  3. ↑ Interview with Prof. Lux-Steiner on the subject of solar cell technology
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: Martha Lux-Steiner is the first female physics professor at the FU Berlin
  5. ↑ Tagesspiegel of October 5, 1999: "The physicist Martha Christina Lux-Steiner received the Cross of Merit for her research on solar energy ..."
  6. ↑ "In 2004 she received the Hahn-Meitner-Technologie-Transfer-Preis for excellent research in the field of technology transfer."
  7. ↑ German Solar Prize 2015: "Special Prize for Personal Commitment"
  8. ^ Teaching award from the Free University of Berlin
  9. ↑ "e! MISSION.at - Energy Mission Austria"
  10. ↑ International Summer University - ISU energy
  11. ↑ Exist research transfer of the BMWi
  12. ↑ Sulfurcell solar technology from 2010 Soltecture GmbH
personal data
SURNAME Lux-Steiner, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lux-Steiner, Martha Christina (full name); Steiner (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern