Paul Leiderer

Paul Leiderer (born April 9, 1944 in Dorfen , Upper Bavaria ) is a German physicist.

Life

Leiderer was after studying physics in 1973 at the Technical University of Munich with the work hypersonic propagation in quantum crystal He 4 doctorate . He did a postdoc at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York . In 1975 he became a research assistant in the physics department of the Munich Technical University. In 1979 he completed his habilitation with the writing Measurement of hypersonic attenuation by means of stimulated Brillouin scattering .

1981 was made reputation as professor of experimental physics at the Technical University of Munich, in 1982 he was appointed to a chair at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . Since 1988 he has been a full professor at the University of Konstanz .

Unfortunately, from 1991 to 1995 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 306 “Microscopic and Structure-Related Processes of Atomic and Molecular Movement” at the University of Constance, and since 1996 the spokesman for the SFB 513 “Nanostructures at Surfaces and Interfaces”.

He has been a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation since 2001 . In 2004 he became a member of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation for the Promotion of Scientific Research (SNSF) . In 2002 he was elected a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . Since 2002 he has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina ; Since April 2007, Leiderer, succeeding Herbert Gleiter, has been chairman of experimental physics at the Leopoldina. He is a member of the “Physics of Condensed Matter” department of the Union of German Academies of Sciences . The members of the physics section of the Leopoldina, which consists of the three sub-sections “experimental physics”, “theoretical physics” and “astrophysics”, elected him in a secret written vote in May 2007 as their spokesman and thus senator of the entire section.

Act

In 1980 he received the prize of the German Physical Society (DPG) ("Physics Prize"), today's Gustav Hertz Prize . In 1999 he was awarded the EADS Dornier Research Prize for his scientific work .

His work focuses on experimental surface and low-temperature physics with the current focus on "surface structure and dynamics of thin films", " nanostructures ", "interfaces of condensed quantum matter " and " colloidal systems ". In 2006 Manfred Albrecht and Johannes Boneberg from the Konstanz working group of Prof. Leiderer developed a new method for magnetic data storage .

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Leiderer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Paul Leiderer  in the German Digital Library
• Website of Paul Leiderer (University of Konstanz)
• "Paul Leiderer, Konstanz, new spokesman for the Experimental Physics Section of the Leopoldina"