Rudolf Grimm
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| Born |
10 November 1961 Mannheim, West Germany |
| Residence | Austria |
| Nationality | Austria (since 17 December 2007) / Germany (since 10 November 1961) |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Innsbruck |
| Alma mater | University of Hannover |
| Thesis | Light-pressure-induced phenomena in an atomic gas : modification of absorption and dispersion profiles (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Jürgen Mlynek Hans Melchior |
| Known for | ultracold atoms, Bose–Einstein condensation |
| Notable awards | Wittgenstein Award (2005) |
Rudolf Grimm (born 10 November 1961) is an experimental physicist from Austria. His work centres on ultracold atoms and quantum gases. He was the first scientist worldwide who, with his team, succeeded in realizing a Bose–Einstein condensation of molecules.
Grimm graduated in physics from the University of Hannover in 1986. From 1986 to 1989 he was a post-graduate researcher at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), then went on to the Institute of Spectroscopy of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Troitsk near Moscow for half a year. He spent the next ten years in Heidelberg as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics. In 1994, Grimm applied to the University of Heidelberg to qualify as a professor by receiving the "venia docendi" in experimental physics. In the year 2000, he was appointed to a chair in experimental physics at the University of Innsbruck, where he has been Dean of the Faculty for Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics since 2005 and Director of the Research Center for Quantum Physics from 2006. Since 2003, Grimm has also held the position of Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Grimm is married, with three children.
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