Jürgen Mlynek
| Jürgen Mlynek | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 15, 1951 Gronau, Lower Saxony, West Germany |
| Alma mater |
University of Hannover École Polytechnique |
| Doctoral students | Rudolf Grimm T. Pfau C. Kurtsiefer P. Schmidt D. Schneble A. Schniep J-C. Meiners H. Müller |
| Notable awards | Max Born Prize (1996) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1992) |
Jürgen Mlynek (born in Gronau (Leine) on 15 March 1951) is a German physicist and was president of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres from 2005 to 2015.
Jürgen Mlynek studied physics from 1970 to 1976 at the Technical University of Hannover and at the École Polytechnique in Paris. In 1979, he obtained his doctor´s degree and habilitated in 1984.
Between 1976 and 1981, Jürgen Mlynek was a scientific assistant in Hannover and in 1982 he worked for one year as a post-doctoral fellow with the IBM Research Laboratory in San José, California. After three years as academic assistant in Hannover he became a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in 1985 and served as assistant professor at the ETH Zurich from 1986 to 1990.
In 1990, Jürgen Mlynek became a full professor for experimental physics at the University of Konstanz. There he realized an atom inferometer for the first time and conducted groundbreaking experiments in the field of atom optics and quantum optics. Among them are his works on the Heisenberg microscope and the measurement of the Wigner function of the quantum state of matter and light. Since 2000 he has been professor for experimental physics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
From 1996 to 2001, he was vice president of the German Research Foundation (DFG) where he dedicated himself to encouraging young academics. Between 2000 and 2005 Jürgen Mlynek was president of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. During his term of presidency, he had to implement a series of reforms due to drastic reductions in order to downsize structures and to promote excellence. Besides, the sciences moved from Berlin Mitte to Adlershof and it was decided to build the Grimm library in Berlin Mitte.
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