Stephan W. Koch

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Stephan W. Koch (born May 23, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German theoretical physicist .

Koch studied physics from 1971 to 1977 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . From 1977 to 1984 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Frankfurt , where he received his doctorate in 1979 on the theory of electron-hole-droplet nucleation in highly excited semiconductors with Hartmut Haug . In 1983 he completed his habilitation on the dynamics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase transitions of the first order . After three years as a scholarship holder from the F. Thyssen Foundation and a Heisenberg scholarship from the DFG, he joined the Physics Department and Optical Sciences Center of the University of Arizona in Tucson as an Associate Professor in 1986, and in 1989 he was appointed Full Professor. In November 1993 he took over the chair for theoretical solid state physics at the Philipps University of Marburg, succeeding Otfried Madelung and Stefan Schmitt-Rink .

Koch works on the theoretical fundamentals of the interaction of light with matter in semiconductor materials , especially in laser structures and micro- resonators . In 1997 he was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation and in 1999 the Max Planck Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society .

One of his doctoral students was Andreas Knorr , who has been a professor at the Technical University of Berlin since 2000 .

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SURNAME Koch, Stephan W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main