Christoph Helmut Keitel (born 30 July 1965 in Lübeck, Germany) is a German physicist, presently a director at the

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(''Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik'') in Heidelberg and an honorary professor ("Honorarprofessor") at Heidelberg University.CV on the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics website
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and physics at the University of Munich, where he graduated in 1990. As a PhD student, he worked with G. Süssmann, mainly supervised by

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and L. M. Narducci. After several years of research in New Mexico, US, and at

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, London, he worked as a Marie Curie fellow at the

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, Austria. In 1998, he became a SFB junior research group leader at the University of Freiburg, Germany. In 2000, he obtained the degree of a lecturer and the venia legendi at the University of Freiburg with his post-doctoral thesis on Atomic Systems in Intense Laser Fields. After working as a lecturer at the universities of Freiburg and Düsseldorf, he was appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg in 2004, whereof he was the Managing Director 2006 to 2008. In 2005, he was appointed honorary professor at Heidelberg University. His main areas of research are theoretical laser-induced quantum dynamics, quantum electrodynamics, and nuclear and high-energy physics with extremely strong laser fields (see also homepage of the Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics). In 2003, he was awarded the

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by the

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(''Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft'').

References

External links

Homepage at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Keitel, Christoph Helmut 1965 births Living people 21st-century German physicists Quantum physicists Academic staff of Heidelberg University Theoretical physicists University of Hanover alumni Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Academic staff of the University of Freiburg Max Planck Institute directors People from Lübeck