Thomas Walther

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Thomas Walther (* 1964 in Hanover ) is a German experimental physicist. Since 2002 he has been a professor at the Institute for Applied Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

Walther passed his Abitur in Munich. There he studied physics at Ludwig Maximilians University from 1984 to 1990 and received his doctorate from the University of Zurich with the thesis IR-UV and UV-IR Double Resonance Spectroscopy for the Investigation of Molecular Dynamics in Polyatomic Molecules . He then worked as a postdoc from 1994 at Texas A&M University . There he became an assistant professor in 1998, before he finally accepted a position at the TU Darmstadt and became professor of experimental physics there in January 2002.

From 2004 to 2006 he was Managing Director of the Institute for Applied Physics. From 2006 to 2008 and again from 2013 dean of the physics department at TU Darmstadt.

In his publications he mainly deals with applied optics. These include environmental sensors, basic and applied research on and on lasers, quantum information as well as catching and cooling mercury. He is involved in CASED and has published three patents from his work.

Awards

  • 1995: Thesis Award, University of Zurich
  • 1997: Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship, Case Western Reserve University
  • 2002: Teaching Award from the Association of Former Students at the College Level, Texas A&M University
  • 2010: Prize for teaching in experimental physics, Department of Physics, TU Darmstadt
  • 2010: Athene Prize for excellent teaching, Carlo and Karin Giersch Foundation, TU Darmstadt

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Thomas Walther (Darmstadt). The laser - one for all? uni-mainz.de, accessed on January 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German experimental physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover