Gerd Schön: Curriculum Vitae

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 - present		University of Karlsruhe, Full Professor of Physics, chair: Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik
	1995 - 1997		7 months Visiting Professor at Helsinki University of Technology
	1998 - present		Group Leader at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute of Nanotechnology

Specialization

	Theoretical Solid State Physics
	Superconductivity, incl. non-equilibrium effects, NS and FS 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, together with U. Eckern and W. Zwerger
	1995		A. v. Humboldt Award of the Academy of Finland
	2000		Heinrich Hertz Prize of the University of Karlsruhe and the Badenwerk Foundation, together with J. v. Delft and H. 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 - present		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 - 2011		Elected member of the 'Fachkollegium Physik der kondensierten Materie' of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
	2009 - present		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'

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