Martin Wegener

Klaus Martin Wegener (* 1961 in Bergneustadt ) is a German physicist .

Life

Wegener studied physics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , after graduating in 1986 he did his doctorate there in 1987. After three months as a research assistant at the University of Kaiserslautern and a two-year research stay at the AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel ( New Jersey ), he became a member in 1990 appointed to a C3 professorship for experimental solid state physics at the University of Dortmund . In 1995 he took over a chair for applied physics at the University of Karlsruhe and has been coordinator of the DFG Center for Functional Nanostructures , one of the largest nanoscientific research institutions in Europe , since 2001 . Since 2019 he has been co-spokesman for the 3D Matter Made to Order excellence cluster (together with Heidelberg University , spokesman Prof. Uwe Bunz ).

Wegener mainly deals with short-term spectroscopy on semiconductors , quantum kinetics, nano-optics, photonic crystals and metamaterials . He was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the DFG in 2000 and in 2005 received the Descartes Research Prize of the EU for the development of artificial structures with completely new optical properties.

personal data
SURNAME	Wegener, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wegener, Klaus Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bergneustadt