Personal Details
Date of Birth: | 9 March 1952 |
Address: | Theoretical Physics II |
Institute of Physics | |
University of Augsburg | |
86135 Augsburg | |
GERMANY | |
Telephone: | +49 (0)821 598 3236 |
Telefax: | +49 (0)821 598 3262 |
E-mail: | ulrich.eckern (at) physik.uni-augsburg.de |
Homepage: | http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/theo2 |
Scientific Career
1970-1975 | Study of Physics, University of Dortmund, Diploma 1975 |
1975-1976 | Research Assistant, University of Dortmund |
1977-1980 | Research Assistant/Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Karlsruhe |
1979 | Ph.D. (Physics) summa cum laude, University of Karlsruhe |
1980-1982 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
1982-1989 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Karlsruhe |
1984 | Habilitation (Physics), University of Karlsruhe |
1989-1990 | Heisenberg Fellow (DFG / German Research Foundation) |
1990-1993 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Ia BAT, permanent), Research Center Karlsruhe, Institute for Nuclear Solid State Physics; Head of the Theory Group |
since 1993 | Professor (Chair) for Theoretical Physics II, University of Augsburg |
1996-2005 | Founding Member and Principal Investigator, DFG Research Training Group 283, "Nonlinear Problems in Analysis, Geometry and Physics", Augsburg |
1996-2000 | Founding Member and Principal Investigator, DFG Research Unit 241, "Metal-Insulator Transition and Magnetism in Highly Correlated Transition Metal Chalcogenides", Augsburg |
1999-2005 | Principal Investigator in DFG Priority Program 1073, "Collective Quantum States in Electronically Onedimensional Transition Metal Compounds" |
2000-2009 | Founding Member and Principal Investigator, DFG Collaborative Research Center 484, "Cooperative Phenomena in Solids: Metal-Insulator Transitions and Ordering of Microscopic Degrees of Freedom", Augsburg |
2007-2009 | Principal Investigator in DFG Priority Program 1285, "Semiconductor Spintronics" |
2010-2017 | Founding Member and Principal Investigator, DFG Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 80, "From Electronic Correlations to Functionality", Augsburg/Munich |
Fellowships, Awards, Services to the Community, Administration
1980-1981 | NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship |
1984 | Vice-Chair of the Program Committee, 17th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Karlsruhe (LT-17), August 1984 |
1989 | Walter Schottky Prize for Solid State Research, German Physical Society (with G. Schön and W. Zwerger) |
1989-1990 | Heisenberg Fellowship (DFG) |
1993-1995 | Managing Director, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg |
1993-1997 | Co-Coordinator of the EU-HCM Project "Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics: Interacting Electrons in Superconductors and Materials of Reduced Geometry", Institute for Scientific Interchange, Torino, as well as of two Euroconference series, the ESPRIT Working Group "Small Structures", and several INTAS/PECO projects |
1996-1998 | Dean of the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty, University of Augsburg |
1998-2011 | Editor in Chief, Annalen der Physik (Homepage Augsburg) |
1998-1999 | (Elected) Member of the Senate, University of Augsburg |
1999-2001 | Prorector, University of Augsburg (Aufgabenbereiche) |
1999-2004 | Member of the Advisory Board "Nanotechnology", Research Center Karlsruhe |
1999-2006 | Co-Coordinator of three WE-Heraeus Seminars, Bad Honnef (1999, 2002, 2006) |
2000-2002 | Member of the Executive Board, Bavaria-California Technology Center (BaCaTeC), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; 2003-2014 member of the BaCaTeC Advisory Board |
2000-2006 | Member of the Council ("Vorstandsrat"), German Physical Society |
2003- | Coordinator of ECCE Birzeit, an international, UNESCO supported initiative to establish a Center of Excellence in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Palestine |
2003-2006 | Managing Director, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg |
2004-2007 | (Elected) Member of the Senate, University of Augsburg |
2006 | Co-Coordinator of the Symposium Magnetic Switching (DPG/EPS Spring Meeting, Dresden) |
2006 | Coordinator of the Summer School Communication-Dialog-Peace Work, Augsburg |
2006-2014 | Member of the Hertha Sponer Prize Committee, German Physical Society |
2008 | Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society |
2011-2012 | Managing Director, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg |
2012-2019 | (Elected) Member of the DFG Review Board 307 (area 307-02: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics); Chairman 5/2016 - 4/2018 |
2012- | Member of the Honorary Advisory Board, Annalen der Physik |
2012 | Fellow, American Physical Society |
2012-2015 | Chair of the Division "Low Temperatures" of the German Physical Society |
2015- | Member of the Advisory Board, Z. Naturforsch. A |
2015 | Distinguished Referee, European Physical Journal B |
2017-2020 | Member of the Prize Committee "Walter Schottky Prize for Solid State Research" |
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