| 2014-16 | Consultant at Max-Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle/Saale, Germany | ||
| 2011 | Professor emeritus at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany | ||
| 2009 | Fellow of the American Physical Society | ||
| 2007 – 2017 | Chairman of Magnetism Division and Working Group Magnetism of the German Physical Society; 2015 Honorary Member | ||
| 2005 | Sabbatical at IBM Almaden Research, CA, USA | ||
| 2000 | Sabbatical UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA | ||
| 1996 | Sabbatical UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA Sabbatical KU Leuven, Belgium | ||
| 1991-92 | Stanford University, Dept. Mater. Sci., Stanford, USA, Guest Professorship Award by Volkswagen Foundation | ||
| 1989/1990 | IBM Almaden Research Center, San José, CA, USA, Guest Professor | ||
| 1987 – 2011 | Director and Professor at Physics Institute, Chair IIA, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany | ||
| 1986 | IBM World Trade Summer Faculty Guest Professor, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA | ||
| 1982 | AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, Guest Professor | ||
| 1981 | IBM Award as Visiting Professor at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA | ||
| 1980 – 1987 | Professor at II. Physics Institute, University of Cologne, Germany | ||
| 1975 – 1980 | Research Assitant and Permanent Staff Member at Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart | ||
| 1974 – 1975 | Postdoctoral IBM World Trade Fellowship at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA | ||
| 1973 | Dr. sc.nat.ETH and Research Assistant at ETH Zürich | ||
| 1968 | Diploma in Physics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland | ||
| 1963 | Study of Physics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland | ||
| 1963 | Scholarship Award by the Bavarian Government for best Gymnasium Graduates in Bavaria, Germany | ||
| 1958 – 1963 | Gymnasium in Memmingen/Bavaria | ||
| 1957 | Graduation from High School in Themar/DDR | ||
| 1943 | Born in Themar/Thuringia, Germany |
Biographie
Gernot Güntherodt (*1943 in Themar/Thuringia) is a German physicist [1] and since 2011 Professor Emeritus [2] of Experimental Physics / Solid State Physics at RWTH Aachen University [3] in Aachen, Germany.
Academic Career
Gernot Güntherodt, brother of Hans-Joachim Güntherodt [4], Prof.em. of University of Basel, Switzerland († 2014), earned his Diploma in Physics in 1968 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and received there as well his doctorate in 1973 with Peter Wachter and Georg Busch at the Laboratory of Solid State Physics [5]. After a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY (1974 – 1975) and a Research Assistentship at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (1975 – 1980), he became in 1977 a permanent Staff Member at the MPI. In 1979 he followed a call as Professor at the University of Cologne [6]. From 1987 until his status of Emeritus in 2011 Güntherodt was Professor and Director at the II. Physikalisches Institut/Chair A [7] at RWTH (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) [3] in Aachen. Thereafter he served 2014 – 2016 as consultant to the group of Stuart Parkin at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle (Saale).
From 2009 until 2017 Güntherodt was Chairman of the Division of Magnetism and of the Working Group Magnetism (AGM) of the German Physical Society (DPG). He held visiting positions as Guest Professor at various institutions, among them IBM Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights/NY und in Almaden/CA, AT&T Bell Labs, Stanford University, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Belgium and Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle (Saale).
Gernot Güntherodt is internationally well known for his dedicated research on highly correlated electron systems, nanomagnetism, quantum spin systems, spin dynamics and spintronics. His research findings are published in almost 500 peer-reviewed international scientific journals [8][9]. He was Co-Editor of three professional journals of physics and of seven Springer Series books Topics in Applied Physics (II – VIII) together with Manuel Cardona. In 2009 the American Physical Society (APS) appointed him as Fellow [10].
Awards and Distinctions
• 1963 Scholarship by the Bavarian state government for best final secondary-school exam; Activation 1966 – 1968 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• 1974 – 1975 Postdoctoral Fellowship at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
• Editorial work for: European Journal of Physics; Solid State Communications; Zeitschrift für Physik B: Condensed Matter
• 1991 – 1992 Guest Professor Fellowship by Volkswagen Foundation at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
• 1989 – 2008 Host of the Research Awardees of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Germany: Charles M. Falco (U. Arizona, USA), Ivan K. Schuller (UCSD, USA), Stuart S.P. Parkin (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, USA) and Shigemasa Suga (Osaka University, Japan)
• 2009 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) [10]
• 2015 Honorary Chairman of the Working Group Magnetism of the German Physical Society (DPG)
References
[1] de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themar
[3] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWTH_Aachen_University
[4] de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_G%C3%BCntherodt
[5] doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-000086606
[6] professorenkatalog.uni-koeln.de/person/show/1699
[7] institut2a.physik.rwth-aachen.de/members
[8] www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/HJY-7721-2023?state=%7B%7D
[9] www.researchgate.net/profile/Gernot-Guentherodt?ev=prf_overview
[10] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fellows_of_the_American_Physical_Society_(1998%E2%80%932010)#2009