Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam

Curriculum Vitae

1971: Diploma in Physics, (University Göttingen)
Thesis: Measurements of the absolute polarization of optical transitions with molecules and molecular complexes in liquid-crystalline solvents
1974: PhD in Physics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute)
Thesis: Localised and delocalised triplet states in single crystals of electron donor acceptor complexes: ESR and emission spectroscopic investigations between 4K and 300K
1974-1975: Postdoc, (IBM San Jose)
1978: Habilitation in Physics, (University of Ulm)
Thesis: Transport properties and phase transition in crystals of organic charge-transfer complexes
1978-1981: Scientific Co-Worker, (Dornier-System, Friedrichshafen)
1981-1987: Associate Professor (C3) in Experimental Physics (Biophysics), (TU München)
1987-1993: Chair (C4) in Physical Chemistry, (University of Mainz)
Since 1993: Director and Scientific Member, (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam)
Since 1995: Honorary Professor, (University of Potsdam)

1979: Physics Award of the German Physical Society
1998: Raphael-Eduard-Liesegang Award of the German Colloid Society
2000: Chaire de Paris
2000: Vannegard Lecture, Gothenburg
2002: Lectureship Award of the Japanese Colloid Society, Sendai
2002: Founder’s Lecture, London
2002: Eli Burstein Lecture, Philadelphia
2004: Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2006: Honorary Professor at the the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Chemistry)
2007: Prix-Gay-Lussac, French Ministry of Research and Technology in collaboration with the Alexander Humboldt Foundation
2007: Overbeek Medal of the European Colloid and Interface Society
2008: Honorary Doctorate of the University Montpellier, France
2009: Wolfgang Ostwald Price of the German Colloid Society
2010: BP Visiting Lecturer 2010, Cambridge Univ.,UK
2012: Member of the Academy of Europe

Since 1986: Board of the German Colloid Society
1996-1998: Board of the German Physical Society
1996-1998: Speaker of the Professional Association “Chemical Physics” of the German Physical Society
1997-2000: Scientific Advisory Board of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
2002-2008 Scientific Advisory Board of the Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin
2002/2003: President of the European Colloid and Interfaces Society
2004-2007: President of the German Colloid Society
Since 2004: Scientific Advisory Board and Jury of the Austrian Nano Initiative
2004-2012: Member of the review board "Chemistry" of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2005-2008: Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin
Since 2008: Biofibre Materials Research Center, Stockholm
Since 2008: International Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry, Strasbourg, F
Since 2008: Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Biophysics of the Austrian Acad. Sci., Graz, Au
2008-2010: Adolphe Merkle Institute, Université de Fribourg (CH)
Since 2010: Scientific Advisory Board - Materials Science at Göteborg
Since 2012: Scientific Advisory Board "Pôle Chimie Balard", Université de Montpellier

Structure of Complex Interfaces
(amphiphiles, peptides, proteins, polymers, clusters, particles
Polymer (protein)/Lipid Interactions
Processes at Surfaces of Model Membranes

Structure Transitions
(phase transitions and separations, crystallization and growth, swelling)
Encapsulation and Release
Sonochemistry