Stephan W. Koch
Stephan W. Koch (* May 23, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German theoretical physicist.
Koch studied physics from 1971 to 1977 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. He was from 1977 to 1984 Researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Frankfurt University and received his doctorate there in 1979 On the theory of electron-hole Tropfennukleation in highly excited semiconductors. In 1983 he habilitated On the dynamics of equilibrium and nonequilibrium phase transitions of first order. After three years as a fellow of the F. Thyssen Foundation and a Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG, he went in 1986 as an Associate Professor at the Physics Department and Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona in Tucson, he was appointed full professor in 1989. In November 1993 he was appointed professor of theoretical physics at the Philipps- University of Marburg
Cook is working on the theoretical foundations of interaction of light with matter in semiconductor materials, particularly in laser structures and micro - resonators. He was honored for his work in 1997 with the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation and 1999 with the Max Planck Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society.