Wolfgang Sandner (physicist)

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Wolfgang Sandner (born March 2, 1949 in Teisendorf ; † December 5, 2015 ) was a German physicist who dealt with atomic and laser physics. From 2010 to 2012 he was President of the German Physical Society . Until his death he was General Director of the ELI Delivery Consortium International Association (AISBL) based in Brussels.

Life

Sandner studied physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and received his doctorate there in 1979 in atomic physics with Werner Mehlhorn with the dissertation construction and implementation of an electron-electron coincidence experiment to measure the double differential cross-sections for the neon-K-shell ionization by electron impact . From 1979 to 1981 he was a post-doc at SRI International in Menlo Park , where he turned to laser spectroscopy. After his habilitation in 1985, he became a professor at the University of Würzburg and then in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1991 he became a full professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville . From 1993 to 2013 he was director at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin-Adlershof and member of the board of the Forschungsverbund Berlin eV From 1994 to 2014 he was also a professor at the TU Berlin . Until his death, he was General Director and CEO of the ELI Delivery Consortium International Association (AISBL) based in Brussels. In this role, he coordinated the development of the “Extreme Light Infrastructure”, a major EU project to establish the world's first international laser research facility with locations in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, and prepared its operation.

Sandner dealt with the interaction of atoms and plasmas with high-intensity laser light and the non-linear phenomena that occur, the investigation of ionization dynamics and the relativistic plasma dynamics, the acceleration of particles with lasers and the development of UV and X-ray lasers (table top X-ray laser ), Lasers for ultra-short high-intensity pulses and the free-electron laser .

Since 1996 he has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society . From 2003 to 2013 he was the coordinator of the European Laserlab Europe network, which brings together 30 of the largest European laser research institutions from 16 EU member states. From 2010 to 2012 Sandner was President of the German Physical Society , after which he was its Vice President for two years. Since 2014 he has been chairman of the Association of European-level Research Infrastructure Facilities (ERF-AISBL), an association of large European research institutions.

He was married and had a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • with P. Nickles, K. Janulewicz: X-ray lasers , in: Wolfgang Schulz, Horst Weber , Reinhart Poprawe (editors): Landolt-Börnstein Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology , New Series, Group 8, Volume 1 B , Part 2, Laser Physics-Fundamentals , Springer 2008, pp. 203-264.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Pawlak: On the death of Wolfgang Sandner. In: www.pro-physik.de. German Physical Society, December 9, 2015, accessed December 10, 2015 .
  2. ↑ German Physical Society: Press release 04/2010: The new DPG President comes from Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Sandner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Teisendorf
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 2015