The aim of the Heisenberg professorship of the DFG is to prepare outstanding scientists for leadership positions and to give them a perspective on a permanent professorship at a German university. With his research on the theory of ultrafast light-matter interactions, Professor Thomas Fennel, who is currently already a Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG, wants to explore new concepts for the high-precision control and time-resolved characterization of ultrafast electronic processes in nanosystems and drive their realization.
Professor Fennel's scientific posts include the University of Rostock, where he studied and received his doctorate, the University of Washington (Seattle, USA), the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Time Dynamics in Berlin, with which Fennel will continue to engage in intensive scientific exchange. "Granting the Heisenberg Professorship to my team and me means recognition, motivation and incentive at the same time, in the fruitful environment at the University of Rostock and together with colleagues from the Institute of Physics the many unresolved riddles of the interaction between light and matter To come, "explains Fennel.