Wolfgang Ertmer
Wolfgang Ertmer (born February 13, 1949 in Bonn ) is a German experimental physicist who deals with quantum optics and "optics" of atomic matter waves.
Life
Ertmer studied physics at the University of Bonn from 1970 to 1975 and did his doctorate there in 1978 under Siegfried Penselin with a thesis on laser spectroscopic investigations of the hyperfine structure and isotope shift of metastable electron states of 47Ti [Ti] and 49Ti [Ti] and determination of the nuclear quadrupole moments of {47Ti [Ti] and {49Ti [Ti] . As a post-doctoral student , he was at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder from 1982 to 1985. After his habilitation in 1985, he was professor of experimental physics there. Since 1994 he has been a professor at the Institute for Quantum Optics at the Leibniz University in Hanover . There he heads the “Atomic Optics and Laser Medicine” division. From 2002 to 2005 he was vice president of the university, responsible for research. Since 2007 he has been head of the Center for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research (QUEST), which he brought with others to the university. He is the board spokesman of the Laser Zentrum Hannover , on whose board he has been since 2002.
Ertmer is known for his work on Bose-Einstein condensates and as a pioneer of quantum engineering , e.g. B. the development of atomic "quantum sensors" with applications in satellite geodesy. In addition, he worked at the Laser Center in Hanover with applications of lasers in medicine ( ophthalmology ) and biophysics .
Since 1997 he has been the spokesman for the SFB Quantum Limited Measurement Processes with Atoms, Molecules and Photons .
Ertmer has been one of the vice presidents of the German Research Foundation since 2013 . He is a board member of the Suma eV association , which advocates free access to knowledge and operates the MetaGer search engine .
Awards
- 1986: Röntgen Prize (for braking atomic beams with lasers)
- 1997: Leibniz Prize
- 2009: Science Award of the State of Lower Saxony
- 2014: Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
Web links
- Website of his research group in Hanover ( Memento from April 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- For the award of the Lower Saxony Science Prize ( Memento from October 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- CV in PDF file with lecture announcement about quantum sensors ( Memento from November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (46 kB)
- To the QUEST Excellence Cluster, PDF file
- The seeker in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from September 29, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ertmer, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |