Reimund Gerhard

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Reimund Gerhard (born May 31, 1952 in Heidelberg ) is a German applied physicist and university professor .

Life

Reimund Gerhard is a great-great-grandson of the legal consultant Moritz Kallmann (1815–1873; councilor of the Jewish community Heilbronn ), a grandson of the papyrologist Gustav Adolf Gerhard (1878–1918) and brother of the church musician Wiltrud Fuchs (* 1945), the musicologist Anselm Gerhard (* 1958) and the palliative care specialist Christoph Gerhard (* 1961).

He attended elementary schools in Heidelberg, Tauberbischofsheim and Kiel as well as the Kiel School of Scholars and the Mannheim Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium, which he graduated from high school in 1971. After completing basic military service as 2nd flautist with Army Music Corps 12 in Veitshöchheim , he studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1972 . In 1978 he received his physics diploma and spent a year as a research student in St-Jean , Québec, Canada to the physicist Martin M. Perlman (1930-2013). From 1979 to 2006 Reimund Gerhard carried the double name Gerhard-Multhaupt.

From 1980 to 1984 he did his doctorate with Gerhard Sessler (* 1931) in the field of electroacoustics at the TH Darmstadt with a thesis on charge and polarization phenomena in high-polymer electret foils as a Dr.-Ing. Then Reimund Gerhard (-Multhaupt) was from 1985 to 1994 research assistant and project manager at the Heinrich Hertz Institute for Telecommunications in Berlin in the educational equipment department headed by Gerhard Mahler (* 1931). In 1994 he was appointed university professor for sensor technology and in 1996 for applied physics of condensed matter at the newly founded mathematical and natural science faculty of the University of Potsdam .

From 1997 to 2000 Reimund Gerhard was Managing Director of the Institute for Physics (and Astronomy), from 2006 to 2008 Pro-Dean and from 2008 to 2012 Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. He has been a senator at his university since 2014. Visiting stays and visiting professorships took him to the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA (1981, 1982, 1983), Tongji University in Shanghai, China (1987 and 1989), the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Cachan, France (1995/96 and 2014/15), the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in São Carlos , Brazil (1999, 2005-06, 2012), the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI) in Paris, France (1999), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Israel (2013) and the Jiaotong University Xi'an in Xi'an, China (2015). Since January 2018 he has been President of the IEEE Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation Society.

Research profile

Reimund Gerhard and his working group at the University of Potsdam deal with the preparation, comprehensive investigation and application of electrets . Currently there are ferroelectrets or piezoelectrets (polymer films with electrically charged cavities), ferroelectric polymers with piezo and pyroelectric properties, polymer composites with novel combinations of properties, the physical mechanisms of dipole alignment and charge storage, electrically deformable dielectric elastomers ("electro-electrets") and the Physics of musical instruments in the foreground of his interest.

Awards

  • Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (1974–1979)
  • ITG Prize of the Information Technology Society in the VDE (1988)
  • Silver medal as young scientist from the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation (1989)
  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (1992)
  • Technology Transfer Prize of the Brandenburg Technology Foundation (2001)
  • Adalbert Seifriz Prize of the Association of Technology Transfer Crafts (2001)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2011)
  • Whitehead Memorial Lecture of the IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP) (2014)
  • Bernhard Gross Memorial Lecture, 16 th International Symposium on electret, Leuven, Belgium (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation charge and polarization phenomena in high polymer electret foils. worldcat.org. Retrieved October 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b News - University of Potsdam. Retrieved January 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Promotion of the next generation ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. siemens-ring.de. Retrieved October 9, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.siemens-ring.de
  4. ↑ https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/fellowsDirectory.html# >
  5. ↑ Master found a professor - and both won. The 2001 Adalbert Seifriz Prize went to Potsdam. uni-potsdam.de, September 21, 2001. Accessed October 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2011&unit_id=DPOLY&institution=University+of+Postdam
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. > @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-potsdam.de
  8. ↑ http://www.mpikg.mpg.de/5513439/PS-Newsletter1_2015.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Gerhard, Reimund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerhard-Multhaupt, Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German applied physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg