Siegfried Dietrich

Siegfried Dietrich (born January 27, 1954 in Singen (Hohentwiel) ) is a German theoretical solid-state physicist who deals with the physics of interfaces.

Dietrich studied physics at the University of Konstanz and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , where he graduated in 1979, received his doctorate in 1982 ( field theoretical description of critical phenomena in semi-infinite systems ) and qualified as a professor in 1986. After completing his doctorate, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Munich and in 1983/84 at the University of Washington in Seattle . He was professor at the University of Würzburg (1987/88), at the University of Mainz (1988/89) and from 1989 to 2000 at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . Since 2000 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart (restructured and renamed the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems since 2011 ) and also professor for theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart.

He deals with the theory of spatially inhomogeneous condensed matter, for example interface processes such as wetting phenomena, capillary forces , collective dynamics, entropic forces , critical phenomena at interfaces and soft matter at interfaces, nanofluidics . His research also has applications on chemical chips.

In 2002 he received the Max Born Prize and in 1985 the Walter Schottky Prize .

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried Dietrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Stuttgart ( Memento from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Website and biography at the Max Planck Society