Ralf B. Wehrspohn

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Ralf Boris Wehrspohn (born August 17, 1970 in Lübeck ) is a German physicist and, as a member of the board of the Fraunhofer Society, is responsible for the technology marketing and business models department. From 2006 to 2015 he headed the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM together with Peter Gumbsch . From 2016 to 2019 he was head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS. He holds a chair for microstructure-based material design at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Wehrspohn studied physics at the University of Oldenburg and received his doctorate at the age of 26 from the École Polytechnique in France. At the age of 32 he became a professor at the University of Paderborn . In between he worked in industry at Philips Research in London and completed his habilitation in physics after working as a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. In 2006 he was jointly appointed to Halle by the Martin Luther University and the Fraunhofer Society .

Wehrspohn is a member of the Future Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, founder and co-operator of the Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics, founder and co-partner of the company SmartMembranes GmbH, co-operator of the Fraunhofer pilot plant center for polymer processing and polymer synthesis and a member of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft eV, the International Max- Planck Research School for Science and Technology of Nanostructures, in the Central European Chemical Network (CeChemNet), in the Association for Research and Development in Plastics Technology (FEKM) and the German Physical Society , Electrochemical Society, Optical Society of America, Material Research Society.

His work focuses on nanostructured materials and components, such as those used in microelectronics, sensor technology, photonics or in photovoltaics.

The Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft unanimously elected Ralf Wehrspohn as the new Board Member for Technology Marketing and Business Models on May 8, 2019. He took office on October 1, 2019.

Awards

  • 2002 Scientific Association Prize from Dow Chemical Germany
  • 2003 Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the DFG
  • 2003 TR100 Innovation Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2004 101 most important figures in Germany by Financial Times Deutschland

Publications (selection)

Published books

  • "Engineered Porosity for Photonics and Plasmonics", edited by RB Wehrspohn, F. Garcia-Vidal, M. Notomi, A. Scherer (Material Research Society Proceedings 797, 2004), ISBN 1-55899-735-0 .
  • "Ordered porous nanostructures and applications", edited by RB Wehrspohn (Springer, 2005), ISBN 0-387-23541-8 .
  • "Photonic Nanostructures - Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics and Metamaterials", edited by RB Wehrspohn, H. Kitzerow, K. Busch (Wiley-VCH, 2008), ISBN 3-527408584 .

Peer-reviewed publications

  • PW Nolte, D. Pergande, SL Schweizer, M. Geuss, R. Salzer, B. Makowski, M. Steinhart, RBWehrspohn and C. Weder. "Infiltration of individual pores in macroporous silicon photonic crystals." Proc. of SPIE 7393 (2009) 73930S.
  • J. Üpping, A. Bielawny, S. Lee, M. Knez, R. Carius, and RB Wehrspohn. "Electric transport in 3D photonic crystal intermediate reflectors for micromorph thin-film tandem solar cells." Proc. SPIE 7409 (2009) 74090J.
  • J. Hildenbrand, C. Peter, F. Lamprecht, A. Kurzinger, F. Naumann, M. Ebert, R. Wehrspohn, J. Wöllenstein. "Fast transient temperature operating micromachined emitter for mid-infrared for optical gas sensing systems." Proc. SPIE 7362 (2009) 73620S.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Election of the board of directors by the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft , idw, May 9, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Wehrspohn, Ralf B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wehrspohn, Ralf Boris (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck