Prof. Dr. Ingolf Volker Hertel
ingolf-volker.hertel(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1204
A: Attosecond Physics
Haus A, 2.21
Research
- Involvement in the ongoing ProMINTion project of the HU-Berlin, including advising PhD students
- Atome, Moleküle und Optische Physik, Vol. 1 Atomphysik und Grundlagen der Spektroskopie
extensively revised and updated 2nd edition 2017 - Vol. 2 Moleküle und Photonen - Spektroskopie und Streuphysik
2nd edition is in preparation - English edition of volume 1 and 2 has been published in 2015
- DPG-Schulstudie - A study of and for teaching physics in German schools, published by the German Physical Society in Jan. 2016; now it has to be made known to the interested public and to the educational administrations in the 16 German Federal States
Curriculum vitae
Personal Data | ||
| 9th June 1941 | born in Dresden, Germany | |
| status: | married, four children | |
| a personal summary on the occasion of the 60ieth birthday (in German language only) | ||
Education and training | ||
| 1946 - 1950, 1951 | elementary school in Radebeul II near Dresden and in Freiburg/Br. | |
| 1951 - 1957 | humanistic grammer school in Freiburg/Br. | |
| 1957 - 1960 | apprenticeship as physics laboratory assistant | |
| 1960/04 -1963/07 | studying engineer for technical physics (ing. grad.) Lübeck | |
| 1963/10 - 1967/03/07 | studying physics (Dipl. Phys.) Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg/Br. | |
| 1969/05/08 | doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) ibid. | |
Academic career | ||
| 1969/04 - 1970/09 | post doctoral position, Unversität Mainz | |
| 1970/10-1978/09 | Associate Professor at University Kaiserslautern | |
| 1978 | calls on chairs (C4 - positions) to Siegen and Berlin | |
| 1978/10-1986/09 | full professor of exp. physics, Freie Universität Berlin | |
| 1986/10-1993/06 | full professor of physics, Universität Freiburg | |
| 1992/05/01-2009/09/30 | director at the Max Born Institute; since 2009/10/01 director emeritus | |
| 1993/07-2009/09 | Universitätsprofessor (C4-S) FB Physik der Freien Universität Berlin | |
| 2010/01/01-2015/12/31 | Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Senior Professor for the further development of teachers educaton in Physics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and member of the Humboldt ProMINT Kolleg | |
| 2016/01/01-2016/12/31 | Humboldt Senior Advisor at the Physics Institute of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin | |
| since 2018/02/22 | Honorary Professor at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin | |
Textbook on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, German and English (each 2 Vol.) | ||
Periods in foreign laboratories | ||
| 1967/04 - 1968/12 | research fellow, Dept. of Physics, Southampton University, England | |
| 1973/09 - 1973/10
| visiting professor Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Columbia | |
| 1973/09 - 1973/10
| visiting fellow, JILA, Boulder Col., USA | |
| 1990/02 - 1990/07 | directeur de recherche, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton (CNRS), Orsay, Frankreich | |
Offices, committees, science administration | ||
| 1970 - 1978 | participation in building up the newly founded University Kaiserslautern | |
| 1970/11 - 1972/02 | first dean of the department of physics ibid | |
| 1975 - 1987 | general and executive committee of the "International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC)" | |
| 1977 und 1978 | speaker of the first DFG funded "Collaborative Research Centre" in Kaiserslautern | |
| 1981 - 1989 | Atomic Physics Board of the European Physical Society | |
| 1985 - 1986 | initiation of the Collaborative Research Centre 337 in Berlin | |
| 1978-1985 | co-Editor of Zeitschrift für Physik A, Atoms and Nuclei | |
| 1986 - 1997 | editor in chief Zeitschrift für Physik D, Atoms, Molecules and Clusters | |
| 1989/01 - 1993/12 | rapporteur senate-committee of the DFG for the Collaborative Research Centres | |
| 1987 - 1993 | planning of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Materials Research Centre (FMF), founding director together with H.J. Cantow und K.W.Benz | |
| 1990/10 - 1992/09 | Dekan bzw. Prodekan der Fakultät für Physik der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg/Br. | |
| Summer 1992 - 2009/09/30 | speaker of the non-university research institutes in Berlin-Adlershof (IGAFA) | |
| since 1992 | member of the jury for the Otto-Klung prize (since 2007: Klung- Wilhelmy-Weberbank prize) | |
| 1994/01 - 2000/00 | member of the board of WISTA management GmbH | |
| 1995/03/31 - 1998/09/30 | first president of the "Leibniz association" (formerly so called Blue List) - WGL | |
| since 1996 | member in the board of the binational German Israeli James-Franck Programme | |
| 1998/01 - 2003/03 | editor in chief of "The European Physical Journal D" (jointly with G. Grynberg, Orsay, und T. Arecchi, Florenz) | |
| 1998/10/01 - 2000/01/17 | undersecretary for science and research, Senate administration for Science, research and culture of the state of Berlin | |
| since 1999/11 | member of the board of the Magnus Haus – German Physical Society (DPG) | |
| 2000/09-2004/11 | chair of the executive board OpTecBB e.V - Competence network for Optical Technologies in Berlin and Brandenburg | |
| since 2003/04 | External Advisor of "The European Physical Journal D" | |
| 2004/12 - summer 2009 | member of the executive board of OpTecBB | |
| 2004-2010 | member of the science council of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences | |
| 2004-2011 | member of the supervisory board ISAS, Dortmund | |
| 2006/11/20-2009/09/30 | chair of the advisory board, WISTA Management GmbH | |
| 2006/11 - 2018/06 | chair of the board of the Magnus Haus – German Physical Society (DPG) | |
| since 2008 | Member of the Jury Science Price of the Governing Major of Berlin | |
| 1.1.2009-31.12.2011 | Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Chemical Physics | |
| since 2009/10/01 | Honorary chair of the joint initiative of non-university research institutes in Berlin-Adlershof (IGAFA) | |
| 2010/04 to 2012/12 | Member of the advisory board of the Stiftung Brandenburger Tor | |
| 2011-2015 | Coordinator (jointly with Siegfried Großmann, Marburg) of an author group of the German Physical Society on "Teachers education and the situation of physics in the secondary schools in Germany" | |
| since 2012 ... | Representative of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academie of Science in theNational MINT Forum | |
Memberships, honours | ||
| since 1970 | German Physical Society | |
| 1995 | "The James Franck Memorial Lecture" Israelien Academy of Science and Humanities, Jerusalem | |
| since 1997/06 | ordinary (since 2011 eo) member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academie of Science | |
| since 2001/09 | honorary Professor at the University of Potsdam | |
| 2004/02 | cross of merit first class of the Federal Republik of Germany - (laudatio in German language only) | |
| since 2018/02/22 | Honorary Professor at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin | |
| since 2018/06 | Honorary Member of the Magnus-Haus Berlin of the German-Physical-Society | |
| since 2018/11/09 | Needle of Honor of the German-Physical-Society | |
MBI Publikationen
- Photoelectron spectroscopy on thin films of extended copper porphyrazines Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108 (2004) 9158-9167
- Theoretical study of the hydrogen atom transfer in the heterodimer indole-ammonia and comparison with experimental results Journal of Chemical Physics 120 (2004) 3619-3629
- Efficient deactivation of a model base pair via excited-state hydrogen transfer Science 306 (2004) 1765-1768
- Ultrafast energy redistribution in photoexcited sodium-ammonia clusters Israel Journal of Chemistry, Part B 44 (2004) 19-25
- Photopolymerization of C60 and Li@C60 studied by second harmonic generation and infrared spectroscopy Applied Physics A - Materials Science & Processing 79 (2004) 515-520
- Third-harmonic generation in carbon nanotubes: Theory and experiment Proceeding SPIE 5352 (2004) 116-125
- Ultrafast predissociation dynamics of water molecules excited to the electronic C and D states Journal of Chemical Physics 121 (2004) 1765-1769
- Temporal pulse manipulation and adaptive optimization in ultrafast laser processing of materials SPIE Proceedings 5662 SPIE, WA, 2004 (2004) 593-602
- Comment on the "Coloumb explosion in femtosecond laser ablation of Si(111) Applied Physics Letters 85 (2004) 694-695
- Photoemission from aqueous alkali-metal - salt iodide solutions using EUV synchrotron Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108 (2004) 4729-4736