Klaus Lackner

Klaus Stephan Lackner is a German physicist and since 2006 director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Life

Lackner studied physics at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. After graduating in 1976, he was in 1978 in Theoretical Particle Physics summa cum laude doctorate and his thesis in 1980 was awarded the Prize of the Carl Clemm / Carl Haas Foundation. He then went as a postdoc at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg in 1979 on a scholarship to Caltech and 1982/83 to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Over the following years, his resume is not conclusive; 1991 awarded him the U.S. Department of Energy to Weapons Recognition of Excellence Award, in the 1990s Lackner worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

In 2001 he became professor of geophysics at Columbia University.

He is one of the founders of the Zero Emission Coal Alliance ZECA (see also FutureGen ) and designed with Christopher Wendt self-replicating machines.