Immanuel Bloch

Immanuel Bloch Felix ( born November 16, 1972 in Fulda ) is a German physicist.

Life

Immanuel Bloch studied from 1991 to 1995 at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms University in Bonn and wrote in 1996 his thesis on stimulated light forces with picosecond laser pulses. After two years of research at Stanford University, he earned his doctorate in 2000 at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich with Theodor Hänsch atom lasers and phase coherence of atomic Bose -Einstein condensates. During this time, he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, where he remained as a research assistant until 2002 and in May 2002 moved to Munich at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University. After he had rejected offers from Stanford University and Yale University in early 2003, he was from the end of 2003 C4 professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In 2009 he became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and a professor at the Faculty of Physics at the Ludwig -Maximilians- University of Munich. Since 2009 he has also been a member of the Nanosystems Initiative Munich ( NIM).

Work

Bloch came with the group to Theodor Hänsch during his doctorate in 1999 the development of an atom laser with a Bose -Einstein condensate (BEC ). He is mainly concerned with the manipulation of BECs through lattice of light waves ( lasers ). With these methods it was possible for the first time in 2002, to convert a BEC in a different state of matter, the Mott -insulator state.

Awards

  • Philip Morris Research Award, 2000 ( together with Theodor Hänsch, and Tilman Esslinger )
  • Young Investigator Award of the Faculty of Physics at the Ludwig -Maximilians- University, Munich, 2000
  • Promotion Award of the Friends of the University of Munich eV
  • Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, 2002
  • Rudolf -Kaiser- price, the Donors' Association for German Science, 2003
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, German Research Foundation, 2005
  • Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2005
  • International Commission of Optics (ICO ) Prize 2005
  • Philip Morris Research Award, 2007
  • Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2011
  • Prize for Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics, European Physical Society, 2011
  • Körber European Science Award, 2013
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