Harald Fuchs

Harald Heinz Fuchs ( born April 15, 1951 in Dudweiler, Saarland ) is a German physicist working with the emphasis on Nanobiotechnology, Scanning Probe Microscopy and self-organization techniques.

Life

Fuchs studied physics from 1971 to 1977 at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken and graduated with a diploma thesis in theoretical physics at Gunther Meissner from. Parallel to work in the Department of Physiology, University of Saarland (membrane research ), he began his doctoral work at the Institute of Materials Physics of the University of Saarland in Herbert Gleiter, from which he graduated in 1982 with a theme on nanocrystalline systems. After a assistantship at the same institute in 1984 was followed by a post -doctoral fellow - activity at the IBM Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon Zurich in the group of Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer. From 1985 to 1993 he was a member of a research department of BASF AG, Ludwigshafen.

In 1993 he accepted an appointment as a professor and director at the Physical Institute of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. He has worked there essential for the development of the nanoscience and is co-founder of the Center for Nanoscience ( CeNTech ) in Münster, whose scientific director he is.

Since 2004 he is member of the Institute for Nanotechnology at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.

Work

Main scientific activity of fox are interdisciplinary research projects of nanoscience, especially of scanning probe microscopy and self-organization techniques. He was awarded two research prizes ( including the Philip Morris Research Prize 1994).

He is author and co-author of over 300 scientific publications, Koeditor of more than ten books, more than 500 conference papers and over 30 patent applications.

He is co-founder of two start-up companies in the field of nanotechnology, a member of several scientific societies and an elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech.

In 2009 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class and the Friedrich Emich Plaque of the "Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry ".

Writings

• Scanning probe microscopy. In: Bergmann - Schaefer: textbook of experimental physics. Volume 3: optics. 10th edition. de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-11-017081-7, pp. 1133-1159.
• H. Hölscher, A. Schirmeisen: Scanning Probe Microscopy. In: Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology. Elsevier, 2005, ISBN 0-08-043152-6, pp. 1-12.