Roderich Moessner
Roderich Moessner is a German solid-state physicist. Since 2007 he has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden and a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
Moessner studied physics at Oxford University , where he also received his doctorate in theoretical physics. From 1997 to 1998 he was employed at New College , Oxford, and between 1998 and 2001 he was a postdoc at Princeton University . From 2001 to 2006 he conducted research at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique at the École normal supérieure , Paris, and at the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique. During his studies he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . He was "Divisional Associate Editor" of the Physical Review Letters and until the end of 2015 a member of the board of directors of the German Physical Society (DPG) . Moessner has been a member of the DPG board since May 1, 2020, where he is responsible for publications.
Since 2008 he has been an honorary professor at the TU Dresden.
Prizes and awards (selection)
- Fellow of the American Physical Society (2015)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2013 of the German Research Foundation (2013)
- Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division (2012)
Web links
- Homepage of the Moessner department
- Magnetic monopoles in spin ice, article about Moessner by Christian Meier
- Moessner's curriculum vitae, homepage at the MPI Physics of Complex Systems
- Literature by and about Roderich Moessner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moessner, Roderich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |