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Main Research Fields
Electron microscopy and spectromicroscopy, Surface and adsorbate physics, Thin film magnetism, Imaging of ultrafast processes and transient states using time-resolved electron microscopy, Multiphoton photoemission
Scientific Career
| 2001 - 2004 | Provisional scientific head of IMM |
| Since 1991 | Professor, Institute of Physics, JGU Mainz |
| 1987 - 1991 | Professor (no tenure) at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bielefeld |
| 1988 - 1989 | Research visit at the Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA), in the group of Prof. Ch. S. Fadley |
| 1987 | Habilitation Thesis: Spinpolarisation and dichroism in photoemission |
| 1985 - 1987 | Research Associate (Hochschulassistent) at Fakultät für Physik, University of Bielefeld, in the group of Prof. U. Heinzmann |
| 1984 - 1985 | Postdoctoral fellow at Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, ETH Zürich, in the group of Prof. H.C. Siegmann |
| 1981 - 1984 | Research Associate at Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Berlin |
| 1979 - 1981 | PhD student in experimental Physics, in the group of Prof. J. Kessler, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität of Münster |
| 1973 - 1978 | Study of Physics, Universität Münster (Dipl. Thesis) |
Scholarships, Awards and Honors
| Since 2009 | Member of Peer Review Board of Diamond, Oxford (Synchrotron Source) |
| 2007 - 2008 | Member of Technologiebeirat Rhineland Palatinate |
| Since 1990 | (Co-)Foundation of four companies as spin-offs in the University groups |
| Since 2003 | Member and since 05/2004 Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of IMM |
| 2002 - 2007 | Member of the Board of “Materials Valley e.V.” Rhein-Main |
| 2004 | Innovationspreis Synchrotronstrahlung |
| 1991 | Gaede-Preis of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vakuum (DAGV) |
| 1990 | Bennigsen-Foerder-Preis oft the Federal State of Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| 1985 | Karl-Scheel Preis of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin |
| 1981 | PhD Prize of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universiät of Münster |
| 1979 - 1980 | Stipend of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |