Thomas Elsässer

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Thomas Elsässer (born September 28, 1957 in Tübingen ) is a German experimental physicist. He is Director at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy and Professor for Experimental Physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

biography

Elsässer is a son of the astronomer Hans Elsässer . He studied physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Technical University of Munich from 1976 to 1982. In 1986 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich under Wolfgang Kaiser . He stayed at the Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich until 1993. In 1991 he received his habilitation there. In 1990 he did a research stay at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel , NJ, USA. Since 1993 he has been director at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin. A year later he was also given a professorship for experimental physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Elsässer's field of work is ultra-short-term physics of condensed matter. Using optical methods and time-resolved X-ray diffraction processes, he investigates processes in the femtosecond time range. This includes the elucidation of transient structures in solids and biological molecules as well as the understanding of fundamental interactions in substances. These are also relevant for applications in the field of optoelectronics . Important investigations carried out by him apply to the non-equilibrium behavior of charge carriers and the charge transport in semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures, the dynamics of intermolecular hydrogen bonds in liquids and biomolecules in an aqueous environment as well as ultrafast structural changes.

In the field of laser physics , he is interested in the generation and application of ultra-short pulses in the spectral range from terahertz radiation to the hard X-ray range.

Awards

  • Elsässer is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society .
  • 1986: Dissertation award from the Association of Friends of the Technical University of Munich
  • 1991: Rudolf Kaiser Prize
  • 1995: Otto Klung Prize for Physics
  • 2004: Professeur invité Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (chemistry)
  • 2009: Advanced Grant from the European Research Council
  • 2010: Full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  • 2010: Berlin-Brandenburg Innovation Prize
  • 2012: Julius Springer Prize
  • 2012: Professeur invité Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (Physics)
  • 2016: Ellis R. Lippincott Award
  • 2017: Professeur invité at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (physics)
  • 2017: Outstanding Referee American Physical Society
  • 2019: Advanced Grant from the European Research Council
  • 2019: Chercheur invité Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (Physics)

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More than 500 scientific publications in refereed journals and books, a monograph, more than 20 book chapters, 6 patents.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Scientists of the 52nd week in the anniversary year 100 years of innovation from Adlershof. IGAFA, archived from the original on January 29, 2010 ; Retrieved February 7, 2010 .
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Karisch: Thomas Elsässer receives the Ellis R. Lippincott Award. Forschungsverbund Berlin, press release from April 5, 2016 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on April 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Elsasser, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German experimental physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen