Siegfried Bauer (physicist)

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Siegfried Bauer (2010)

Siegfried Bauer (born May 15, 1961 in Karlsruhe ; † December 30, 2018 in Linz ) was a German physicist and university professor . He was Professor of Experimental Physics at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz and Head of Department for Physics of Soft Matter at the Institute for Experimental Physics.

Life

Siegfried Bauer graduated from Ludwig-Marum-Gymnasium in Pfinztal in 1980 and studied physics at the University of Fridericiana in Karlsruhe . In 1990 he received his doctorate, six years later he completed his habilitation in applied physics at the University of Potsdam . After working as a lecturer at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences , as a project manager at the Heinrich Hertz Institute for Telecommunications (HHI) Berlin and as an assistant professor at the University of Potsdam, he took up his position as a university professor for experimental physics at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the JKU Linz in 1997. In addition, from 2002 to 2018 he held the chair in "Soft Matter Physics" at this institute. He died of cancer on December 30, 2018.

Main focus of work and research

  • Functional polymers for applications in sensor technology and photonics
  • Flexible and elastic electronics, sustainable electronics
  • Dielectric elastomer actuators and generators
  • Ferroelectret

Prices

  • Special prize for research institutions as part of the Upper Austria State Innovation Prize
  • Two Austrian patent prizes as part of the Prize Initiative (2007, 2008)
  • Research prizes from the Upper Austrian Sparkasse (2000)
  • Karl Scheel Prize of the Physical Society Berlin (1997)
  • Literature Prize of the Information Technology Society (ITG) in the Association of German Electrical Engineers (1994)
  • Kurt Überreiter Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Association for Polymer Research (BVP) (1994)
  • "Advanced Grant" from the European Research Council (ERC) (2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reimund Gerhard, Martin Kaltenbrunner: In Memoriam Siegfried Bauer. Johannes Kepler University, Soft Matter Physics Department, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
  2. ^ Mourning a visionary researcher. In: Upper Austrian news. January 7, 2019, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Upper Austrian news. January 5, 2019, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ New solar cells: light and flexible on ORF April 4, 2012, accessed on April 4, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and professor for experimental physics
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2018
Place of death Linz