Bernd Büchner (born 26 May 1961) is, since 2003, Director of the Institute for Solid State Research, IFW Dresden and Professor for Experimental Physics at the

Dresden University of Technology TU Dresden (for german: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often wrongly translated as "Dresden University of Technology") is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, th ...

. Büchner is known for contributions to the field of high-temperature superconductivity, recent work on

iron-based superconductor Iron-based superconductors (FeSC) are iron-containing chemical compounds whose superconducting properties were discovered in 2006. In 2008, led by recently discovered iron pnictide compounds (originally known as oxypnictides), they were in the firs ...

s and authored over 1000 scientific papers. Born in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, Bernd Büchner graduated at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

, where he obtained a PhD in 1993 and was habilitated in 1999. From 2000 to 2003, Büchner was Professor for Experimental Physics at the

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

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External links

Web page of IFW Dresden
{{DEFAULTSORT:Buchner, Bernd Living people 21st-century German physicists 1961 births Academic staff of TU Dresden