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The Stanford R. Ovshinsky Prize for Excellence in Amorphous Chalcogenides
for the Year 2007

was conferred in Brasov (Romania)

During The third International Conference on Amorphous and Nanostructured Chalcogenides,
July 2 - July 6, Brasov

to

Prof. Matthias Wuttig 
University of Aachen


    Matthias Wuttig


Date and Place of birth: 20. April 1960, in Mettmann, Germany
Marital status: married with Ph.D. Colette Clarissa Knight
Education:
6/1979: High School diploma, average: 1,1; Geschwister Scholl High School Velbert 
10/1979 - 9/1984: University of Cologne, Germany; Physics Department
10/1984 - 12/1985: Diploma thesis, Institut fuer Grenzflaechenforschung und Vakuumphysik, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany "Structure and Dynamics of the clean and adsorbate-covered Cu(100) surface"
12/1985: Diploma in physics, grade: 1,0 (highest degree); University of Cologne, Germany
1/1986 - 6/1988: Ph.D. thesis: Institut fuer Grenzflaechenforschung und Vakuumphysik, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany "Relaxation and Reconstruction of metallic surfaces" Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Ibach
6/1988: Ph.D., summa cum laude (highest degree); University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany
Professional career:
10/1984 - 12/1985: Student assistant, Institute for Interface Science and Vacuum Physics, Research Center Juelich, Germany
1/1986 - 3/1988: Research assistant, Institute for Interface Science and Vacuum Physics, Research Center Juelich, Germany
9/1986 - 12/1986: Researcher, National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Tsukuba, Japan
since 4/1988: Researcher, Institute for Interface Science and Vacuum physics, Research Center Juelich, Germany
7/1990 - 1/1991: Visiting scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
since 10/1991: Scientist within the Fiebiger program at Research Center Juelich
2/1994: "venia legendi" (lecturer) for physics at RWTH University of Technology Aachen, Germany
3/1995 - 4/1995: Visiting professor at CRMC2 - CNRS Marseille, France
5/1995 - 10/1996: Feodor-Lynen Stipend of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation at the AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA
11/1996 √ 9/1997: Scientist, Research Center Juelich, Germany and Consultant, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, New Jersey, USA
since 10/1997 Full Professor for Physics of New Materials, I. Institute of Physics, RWTH University of Technology Aachen, Germany
9/1998: Visiting professor at Hangzhou University, Hangzhou, China
8/1999: Visiting professor at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
10/2004-10/2006 Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, RWTH University of Technology Aachen, Germany 
3-4, 7-8/2005 Visiting professor at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose (CA), USA
9/2005: Visiting professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
since 10/2006 Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, RWTH University of Technology Aachen, Germany
Awards and Honors:
1979: Prize of the city of Velbert for the best High School Exam
1988: Friedrich-Wilhelm Prize of RWTH Aachen for outstanding achievements within the Ph.D. thesis
1993: Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the Ministry for Education and Science for "Chemistry and Physics of thin films and layer systems"
1995: Gaede-Prize of the German Vacuum Society


 

 

 

Prof. Matthias Wuttig