Klaus Richter elected as President of the German Physical Society from 2024 to 2026
Thursday 5 January 2023
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Honnef, 14th November 2022. Press release from the German Physical Society
At its most recent meeting, the DPG's Council
elected the Regensburg physics professor as the future president of the
world's largest physical society with around 55,000 members. In April
2024, he will take over the office from Joachim Ullrich, who will then
take over the vice presidency in rotation. Prof. Dr. Klaus Richter / © DPG/Heupel
It is a good tradition in the German
Physical Society (DPG) to appoint a successor to the incumbent president more
than a year before the end of their term of office, so that the nominee
can be familiarized with the responsible position and ensure continuity
in the leadership of the DPG. At its recent meeting, the DPG's Council now
elected Prof. Dr. Klaus Richter from the University of Regensburg as
the next president of the world's largest physical society with around
55,000 members. The election of a new president takes place every
two years. In April 2024, Richter will take over from incumbent
President Joachim Ullrich, who cannot be re-elected. Like his
predecessor, Ullrich will then assume the office of vice president for
two years. Klaus Richter, born in 1962, studied physics at the
universities of Kiel and Freiburg. After receiving his diploma in 1988,
he completed his doctorate three years later at the University of
Freiburg in theoretical atomic physics on Rydberg states in the helium
atom. He then shifted his research interests to condensed matter physics
and, after a stay at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
in Stuttgart, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Paris
Sud in Orsay/Paris from 1992 to 1994. After two years as a research
assistant at the University of Augsburg, where he received his
habilitation in 1998 on the topic of "Semiclassical Theory of Mesoscopic
Quantum Systems", he headed a junior research group at the Max Planck
Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden from 1996 to
2001. Since 2001, Richter has held a chair in the field of
condensed matter theory at the University of Regensburg. His research
group "Complex Quantum Systems" conducts research there in the fields of
solid-state physics; cold atom physics and many-body quantum chaos. He
was awarded the Physikpreis Dresden in 2019 for his work. His research
has received great recognition with funding under the DFG's Reinhart
Koselleck Program. Very recently he has been awarded the title
“Professor of the Year 2022” by the UNICUM Foundation. In Regensburg,
Klaus Richter has been the spokesperson of the Collaborative Research
Center "Emergent Relativistic Effects in Condensed Matter" of the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) since 2017. Klaus
Richter is actively involved in the German scientific community. In the
German Physical Society, he was spokesperson of the Division "Dynamics and Statistical Physics" from 2006 to 2009 and chaired the "Condensed Matter Section”
from 2012 to 2015. From 2017 to 2021, Klaus Richter was also a member
of the DPG Executive Board responsible for Conferences and Awards.
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