Roland Sauerbrey
Roland Sauerbrey (born October 28, 1952 in Coburg ) is a German physicist and has been the Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf since 2006 .
His research areas are quantum electronics and laser physics , especially in the area of high-power and ultrashort pulse lasers . In addition to his work at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, he holds the professorship for quantum optics at the Technical University of Dresden .
biography
Sauerbrey received his physics diploma in 1978 from the University of Würzburg , where he also received his doctorate with distinction in physics in 1981. As a fellow of the DFG , he then carried out research at Rice University in Houston , USA, until 1982 . He returned to the University of Würzburg and worked there as a university assistant until 1984. From 1985 to 1994 he went back to the USA to Rice University, where he worked first as an assistant professor , from 1988 to 1992 as an associate professor and finally as a full professor . During this time (1991 to 1992) he was a Humboldt fellow visiting scientist in the laser department at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen . From 1994 until he moved to Dresden he was Professor of Experimental Physics and Director of the Institute for Optics and Quantum Electronics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . From 2006 to 2008 he spent two years as visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde , Glasgow .
In 1998 Sauerbrey was accepted as a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and a member of the Academy of Nonprofit Sciences in Erfurt . He has been a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) since 2002 . In 2013 he was elected to the Leopoldina and in 2014 to the Academia Europaea .
From 2002 to 2004 he was President of the German Physical Society (DPG) . He is a member of various scientific advisory boards and boards of trustees of scientific institutions and companies as well as a member of the national advisory committee, which accompanies the state search for a location for a repository for high-level radioactive waste.
Sauerbrey is married and has two children.
Prizes and awards
- NATO scholarship, 1977
- Röntgen price for the diploma thesis, Würzburg 1979
- Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize, SPIE, 1993
- Prize of the President of Lower Franconia for the dissertation, 1982
- Honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences , 2004
- Thuringian Research Prize, 2004
- Le Prix la Recherche, 2005
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock , 2010
- Member of the Leopoldina , 2013
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, 2016
Web links
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by Roland Sauerbrey (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 6, 2016.
- ↑ Bundesrat.de: Election of members of the National Monitoring Committee according to § 8 Paragraph 3 of the Site Selection Act
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sauerbrey, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coburg |