Prof. Gerd Schön - Curriculum Vitae

 
  • April 14, 1948
   born in Karlsruhe, Germany

 

Education

 
  • 1966, 68-71
   University of Karlsruhe (67-68: compulsory military service)
 
  • 1971 - 1972
   University of Dortmund, Diplom in Physics
 
  • 1972 - 1973
   Stanford University, Fulbright fellowship
 
  • 1973 - 1976
   University of Dortmund, Ph.D. in Physics,
topic: "Propagating Collective Modes in Superconductors",
thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schmid
 
  • 1981
   Habilitation at the University Karlsruhe,
topic: "Nonequilibrium Superconductivity"

 

Employment

 
  • 1976 - 1982
   University of Karlsruhe, Assistent
 
  • 1977 - 1978
   Cornell University, Postdoc (NATO fellowship)
 
  • 1980
   UC Berkeley, Visiting Assistant Professor
 
  • 1982 - 1984
   ITP UC Santa Barbara, Heisenberg Fellow
 
  • 1984 - 1986
   Kernforschungsanlage Jülich, Heisenberg Fellow
 
  • 1986 - 1987
   CST Delft University of Technology (NL), Senior Researcher
 
  • 1988 - 1991
   Delft University of Technology (NL), Full Professor of Physics
 
  • 1991 - 2016
   University of Karlsruhe/KIT, Full Professor of Physics,
chair: Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik
 
  • 1995 - 1997
   7 months Visiting Professor at Helsinki University of Technology
 
  • 1998 - 2016
   Group Leader at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe/KIT, Institute of Nanotechnology
 
  • 2016 - present
   Distinguished Senior Fellow at the KIT

 

Specialization

 
  • Theoretical Solid State Physics
 
  • Superconductivity, incl. non-equilibrium effects, superconducting heterostructures
 
  • Electron transport in nanostructures, incl. charging effects, quantum transport
 
  • Quantum information devices, relaxation and decoherence processes

 

Honours

 
  • 1982
   Heisenberg Fellowship
 
  • 1989
   Walter Schottky Prize of the German Physical Society,
shared with Ulrich Eckern and Wilhem Zwerger
 
  • 1995
   A. v. Humboldt Award of the Academy of Finland
 
  • 2000
   Heinrich Hertz Prize of the University of Karlsruhe and the Badenwerk Foundation,
shared with Jan v. Delft and Herbert Schoeller
 
  • 2001
   Miller Visiting Professor Award, UC Berkeley
 
  • 2001
  

Fellow of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
 
  • 2011
  

Fritz London Memorial Prize, shared with Hans Mooij and Humphrey Maris

 

Further professional activities

 
  • 1997 - 2001
   Co-editor of Europhysics Letters
 
  • 2001 - 2014
   Co-applicant and member of the coordination committee of the
DFG Forschungszentrum 'Center for Functional Nanostructures' (CFN)
 
  • 2002 - 2004
   Dean of the Department of Physics
 
  • 2003 - 2006
   Chairperson of the Division 'Low Temperatures' of the German Physical Society (DPG)
 
  • 2008 - 2012
    2012 - 2016
   Elected member of the 'Fachkollegium Physik der kondensierten Materie'
of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
 
  • 2009 - 2012
   Chairperson of the Section 'Condensed Matter' of the DPG

 

Member of scientific advisory boards:

 
  • 1991 - 1998
   Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung Stuttgart
 
  • 1996 - 1999
   Minerva Center for Mesoscopics, Fractals and Neural Networks, Bar-Ilan University
 
  • 1997 - 1998
   Ministery for Science and Education of the State Sachsen-Anhalt
 
  • 2003 - 2009
   Physikzentrum Bad Honnef

 

Co-director of Schools and Research Workshops (partial list)

 
  • NATO ARW Delft 1988
   'Superconducting Networks'
 
  • NATO ARW Karlsruhe 1994
   'Mesoscopic Superconductivity'
 
  • NATO ASI Trieste 1994
   'Quantum Dynamics of Submicron Structures'
 
  • NATO ASI Curacao 1996
   'Mesoscopic Electron Transport'
 
  • DPG School Bad Honnef 2007
   'Quantum Information and Quantum Simulation'
 
  • 445th Heraeus Seminar Bad Honnef 2009
   'Quantum Measurement and Metrology with Solid State Devices'