Annette Zippelius

Annette Zippelius ( born June 25, 1949) is a German physicist.

Annette Zippelius his doctorate in 1976 at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich with the work A kinetic theory of classical fluids.

Since 1988 she has held the chair of theoretical physics at the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen. This makes it the first C4 physics professor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Her research area are highly complex physical and biological systems such as spin glasses and neural networks. They also worked closely with the later Nobel laureate in medicine Erwin Neher.

In 1998 she received for the " construction of an exactly solvable network model that the functional properties of an associative memory has " the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. She is a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and, since February 2005 Member of the Scientific Council in Germany.

Her mother was the behavioral biologist Hanna -Maria Zippelius.

Honors and Awards

• 2005 Order of Merit of the Lower Saxon Merit