Career & Distinctions | |
1958 | Born in the rural Bavarian town of Moosburg (Germany) on April 25 |
1968-76 | High-school education in the Bavarian alpine town of Bad Tölz (Germany) |
1976 | Ranked among the top-ten high-school graduates of the federal state of Bavaria |
1976-79 | Supported by a gifted-student scholarship from the Bavarian government (Bayerische Begabtenförderung) |
1976-82 | Scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) |
1976-79 | Physics studies at the Technical University of Munich, Pre-Diplom (1978) |
1979-82 | Graduate studies at the University of Oxford; member of Balliol College |
1980 | M.Sc. in theoretical physics |
1982 | D.Phil. in theoretical physics (“Microscopic approach to the interacting boson model”, supervised by D.M. Brink) |
1982-84 | Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg (with H.A. Weidenmüller) |
1984-87 | Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA), Weingart Prize Fellowship |
1987-1995 | Associate Professor (C3) for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne |
1988 | Assistant Professor (tenure track), California Institute of Technology (declined) |
1996- | Full Professor (C4) for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne |
2003-06 | Founding Director (Gründungssprecher) of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center “Symmetries and Universality in Mesoscopic Systems” (SFB/TR 12, Cologne-Bochum-Essen-Warsaw) |
2004-14 | Associate Editor of Nuclear Physics B: Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics |
2004-14 | Member of the Scientific Committee of the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics, Bonn |
2005-11 | Member of the committee previewing faculty appointments at the University of Cologne (Beirat für Berufungsangelegenheiten) |
2007-12 | Deputy Chair of the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy |
2007-08 | Dean of Physics (Vorsitzender der Fachgruppe) |
2007- | Elected Member of the German National Science Academy “Leopoldina” |
2008- | Member of St.-John´s College, Cambridge (UK) |
2009 | Recipient of the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) |
2010-14 | Member of the MFO Scientific Committee (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach) |
2012 | Recipient of the Max Planck Medal (Highest Prize in Theoretical Physics awarded by the German Physical Society) |
(Max Planck medalists) | |
2012-14 | Chair of the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy |
2016-2021 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Erwin-Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna |
2018-2022 | Chair of the Max-Planck Medal Committee |