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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




 


 

 

 

"Stanford R. Ovshinsky" Award was founded in 2001, with the aim to recognize the great achievements in the field of chalcogenides. , 

 

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Since then, the winners of the award Prize were:

2001  Prof. Stephen R. Elliott (Cambridge University, UK) and Prof. Keiji Tanaka (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)

2002  Prof. Victor Lyubin (Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel) and Dr. Alexander Kolobov (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan)

2003  Prof. Punit Boolchand (University of Cincinnati, USA) and Prof. Koichi Shimakawa (Gifu University, Japan)

2004  Prof. Hellmut Fritzsche (James Franck Institute, Chicago, USA) and Prof. Mihai Popescu (Institute of Materials Physics, Bucharest, Romania)

2005  Prof. Andrei Andriesh (Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova)

2006  Prof. Miloslav Frumar (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic)

2007  Prof. Matthias Wuttig (I. Physikalisches Institut der RWTH Aachen, Germany)

2008  Prof. Annie Pradel (University of Montpellier II, France)

2009  Prof. Matthieu Micoulaut (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)

2010  Prof. Noboru Yamada (Panasonic, Japan)

2012  Prof. Gerald Lucovsky (North Carolina State University, USA)