Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik I
Universität Augsburg
Universitätsstr. 1 / Geb. Nord
D-86135 Augsburg

Date of Birth
29. November 1950

Nationality
Swiss and German

Status
Married (with Gerlinde Hänggi; one son Alexander)

Abitur (Matura) 1970
Study of physics 1970-1974
B. SC. 1972
M. S. 1974
PH. D. 1977

Sept. 1983 - Sept. 1987
Associate Professor, Polytechnic Institute of New York (with tenure), New York

Sept. 1980 - Sept. 1983
Assistant Professor of Physics, Polytechnic Institute of New York, New York

May 1979 - Sept. 1980
Postgraduate Research Associate, University of California, San Diego

May 1978 - May 1979
Visiting Professor, University of Stuttgart, Germany

April 1977 - April 1978
Research Associate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Jan. 1977 - April 1977
Research Associate, University of Basel, Switzerland

1977
Janggen-Pohn Prize, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1977
Max-Geldner Prize ($12.000), Basel, Switzerland

1988
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Sept. 1994 - Nov. 2009
Member of the Board of the German Physical Society (DPG)
Member of the DPG committee « Scientific publication matters » (Nov. 99 - present)

1995
Nicolás Cabrera Professorship of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid

Dec. 1997 - Dec. 2009
Boardmember of the regional section of the German Physical Society (Regionalverband Bayern e. V. der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft)

1998
Michael Visiting Professorship of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

1998
Fellow of the JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science) at the Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto, Japan

1999
Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) and Chartered Physicist (CPhys)

2000 - 2003
Chair of the division of "Dynamics and Statistical Physics" of the German Physical Society

2000 - 2005
Member of the DPG committee "Future of Scientific Publishing"

2000 - 2003
Member of the Advisory Council "Dresdner Herbstseminar"

2001 - 2009
Elected member of the Board of the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division of the European Physical Society , EPS-SNP

2001
Elected external member of the Max-Planck-Institute for physics of complex systems in Dresden and scientific member of the Max-Planck-society

2002
Humboldt Honorary Research Award of the Foundation for Polish Science (Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej)

2002
Extraordinary Member of CeNS - Center for NanoScience

2003
RIKEN Eminent Scientist Award -  RIKEN
Photo gallery

2003
Elected member of  the German National Academy of Sciences: LEOPOLDINA

May 2003
Evaluator for the program "Ramon y Cajal", Spain

2004
Board member of the Krzyzowa Initiative for Quantum Information European Research Network

July 30, 2004
Institute of Physics Elected Chartered Scientist Award (CSciCPhys/FInstP)

2005
Dr. honoris causa ("Laurea magistralis honoris causa") in physics, Università di Camerino, Italy PDF Laudatio Photo gallery

2005
Dr. honoris causa, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland  Laudatio
Pictures Video Recommended player

2005
Dr.honoris causa, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
signet ring
Program Video Laudatio
El Pais, 12.04.2006
El Pais, 13.04.2006

2005
Elected Foreign Fellow of the Am. Assoc. Adv. Science (AAAS)

2006
Dr. honoris causa, Tatar State University of Humanities and Pedagogical Sciences, Kazan, Russia
Photo gallery
Newspaper (in Russian)

May 14, 2006
Medal of honour from the Jagellonian University in Krakow in recognition for his most outstanding scientific achievements and his continued dissemination of statistical physics works which relate in spirit to the pioneering contributions by Marian von Smoluchowski.
The medal has been designed by Polish artist and sculptor, Jozef Sekowski, professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.
Medal-1 Medal-2 Text
Photo gallery Laudatio

May 31, 2006
Doctor honoris causa from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
translation Photo gallery

June 1, 2006
Award for the "Chair of Physics Elena Aizen de Moshinsky" from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Photo gallery

September 2006
CeNS Publication Award

June 2007
Award: Honorary professor of Beijing Normal University 2007-2012 (translation)
Photo gallery
Video: Giving a lecture in BNU
Video: Eating a roast duck

April 2007
Elected ordinary member of the Academia Europaea, Physics, Astrophysics and Engineering Section

November 2007
CeNS Publication Award

February 2008
Dr. honoris causa, Humboldt University Berlin
Presse, Program
Talk, Photo gallery
News

November 2008
CeNS Publication Award

2009
Distinguished Lecture Series at Asian Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) and Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

2009
Doctor honoris causa from the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
signet ring, amulet
Laudatio
Photo gallery
Lunch at Luxury Hotel Alfonso XIII
Diario de Sevilla vom 17.12.2008
Europa Press vom 16.12.2008
ABC de Sevilla vom 16.12.2008
Diario de Sevilla vom 05.05.2010
Diario de Sevilla online, print vom 06.05.2010
ABC de Sevilla vom 06.05.2010
Cronica Noticias Espana vom 06.05.2010
Comunicacion de la Universidad de Sevilla vom 05.05.2010
El Mundo online, print vom 06.05.2010
ADN vom 06.05.2010
Que vom 06.05.2010

November 2009
elected Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society (APS) (certificate)

November 2009
CeNS Publication Award (Phys. Rev. Lett. 102: 230601 (2009)
CeNS Publication Award (Phys. Rev. Lett. 102: 210401 (2009)

December 2009
ScienceWATCH Fast breaking paper

January 2010
selected for ISIHighlyCited.com because of exceptional citation count in the field of Physics

2010
Centre for Theory in Natural Science (CTN) "Lindhard Lecture 2010", University of Aarhus, Denmark
Lindhard Lecture Prize, Announcement
Lindhard_Lecture_14.06.2010 (pdf)
Lindhard (dielectric) function / Random Phase Approximation (# cites > 1600)
Lindhard Lecture 2010: Diploma
List of previous recipients

2010
Dr. honoris causa from the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev
Medal-1, Medal-2
Chronicle, Bibliographic Data, and Personalia of Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov
Program
Hotel Ukraine
Pictures

November 2010
CeNS Publication Award (Phys. Rev. Lett. 104: 170601 (2010)
CeNS Publication Award (Nano Letters 10: 3936-3840 (2010)

2011
The Lars Onsager Lecture 2011 and The Lars Onsager Medal 2011 (front medal, back medal)
NTU aktuell (PDF)
List of previous recipients
Notification
Press release
www.uni-protokolle.de
Springer Pressemitteilung

2012
Director of the International School of Statistical Mechanics at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

2013, 2015, 2017
Elected member for ERC-panel PE 3 (Physical and Engineering Sciences)

May 2014
Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)

December 2014
Distinguished scientist award and medal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (10.12.2014)
Medal-recto, Medal-verso

May 2015
Outstanding Reviewer status Elsevier publications
PDF

November 2015
Elected foreign honorary member to the Academiei Române
Biografie (PDF)
Diploma (PDF)
THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY - ONLINE MEMBERS FROM THE FOREIGN COUNTRIES

27.04.2016
Dr. honoris causa, Lobachevsky University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Photo Gallery
Press Uni Augsburg
Augsburger Allgemeine vom 6. September 2016

2018
Blaise Pascal medal in Physics from the European Academy of Sciences
Diploma
Medal-recto, Medal-verso
Prize Ceremony
press releases
Nanosystems Initiative Munich
Pro Physik/ Uni-Press
Augsburger Allgemeine 10.04.2018

November 2, 2018
Honorary Professor from Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China
Press release NIM
Picture 1, Picture 2

2019
Marian-Smoluchowski-Emil-Warburg-Preis
diploma PDF, Medal recto, Medal verso
Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4, Picture 5, Picture 6
Video Prize Ceremony Krakow, September 13, 2019
PDF
Press release NIM
UPD 137/18 Pressemitteilung der Universität Augsburg vom 19. November 2018
Aichacher Zeitung vom 23. November 2018
Physik Journal Nr. 1, 2019, S. 57-58

2022
American Physical Society's 2023 Lars Onsager Prize, which recognizes outstanding research in theoretical statistical Physics including the quantum fluids "For development of Brownian motors and pioneering contributions to nonequilibrium statistical physics, relativistic and quantum thermodynamics."
Diploma

January 2024
Elected Fellow of Industry Academy within the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)
Diploma

May 2002 - December 2010
Advisory Editor, Europhysics Letters

May 1997 - May 2002
Co-Editor, Europhysics Letters

January 1994 - December 2012
Advisory Editorial Board , Chemical Physics

April 1998 - January 2008
Editor, New Journal of Physics

June 2001 - present
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, Physica A

Nov. 2003 - January 2011
Member of the Editorial Scientific Committee, Physical Biology

March 2004 - January 2011
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, ChemPhysChem

March 2005 - 2008
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) for "European Physical Journal" (EPJ) as the representative of the Phys. Soc. of Germany (Dt. Phys. Gesellschaft, DPG); SAC-Chair elect 2006, SAC-Chair (2007).

September 2006 - present
Editorial board: International Review of Electrical Engineering (IREE)

March 2007 - present
Editorial board of International Review of Physics (IREPHY)

May 2007 - present
Editorial board member: The Open Chemical Physics Journal

October 2008 - present
Editorial board of The European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJ-ST)

March 2009 - present
Intern. Advisory Editorial board of Ukrainian Journal of Physics

June 2011 - December 2016
Editor-in-chief, European Physical Journal B (EPJ B)

February 2012 - present
Editorial Advisory board VERSITA Emerging Science Publishers (Physics, Materials Science, Astronomy)

October 2013 - present
Scientific Reports (Nature Publ. Group)

2. Noise-Induced Transport of microscopic particles in macroporous materials PCT (Europe, USA, Japan) EP 00/01 369

German Patent: 199 07 564, February 12, 2004 - February 2019 (PDF)