Markus Greiner

Markus Greiner ( born August 20, 1973 in Hannover ) is a German physicist.

Greiner began in 1993 to study physics at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. His diploma thesis he wrote in the German Nobel laureate Theodor Hänsch on the theme "Transport of magnetically trapped atoms: A simple approach to Bose -Einstein condensates ". His doctoral thesis, which also dealt with Bose - Einstein condensates, he wrote in 2003 also under Professor Hänsch.

From 2003 to 2005 he was a scientist ( postdoc ) at the Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics ( JILA ) employed at the University of Colorado in the laboratory of Deborah Jin. Along with Cindy A. Regal, they managed to produce one of the first fermion condensates.

Since August 2005 he has been assistant professor of physics at Harvard University. In 2010 he became Associate Professor in 2012 and Professor of Physics.

Awards

In 2004 he received from the American Physical Society the award for outstanding PhD thesis in the field of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and the William L. McMillan Award of the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 2005, he received the Otto Klung Weberbank prize.

In 2011 he received a MacArthur Fellowship.