Jan M. Rost is a German theoretical physicist and director at the
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
The Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex systems is one of the 80 institutes of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, located in Dresden, Germany.
Research
The research at the institute in the field of the physics of complex systems range ...
in Dresden heading the research departmen
Finite Systems He was awarded the status of Fellow in the
American Physical Society
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, after nomination by the Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics in 2007,
for ''seminal investigations of correlated doubly excited states, threshold fragmentation in few-body Coulombic systems and small clusters, pendular states of linear molecules, and for elucidating the role of correlation and relaxation in ultracold plasmas and Rydberg gases.''
His research interests reach from ultracold to ultrafast dynamics in finite systems including Rydberg excitation and ionization. Former group leaders of his department are among other
Andreas BuchleitnerAndreas BeckerKlaus HornbergerStefan Skupin
an
He was Editor in Chief of Journal of Physics B, chairman of th
SAMOP section of the German Physical Society
chair of th
Chemical-Physical-Technical Section
of the Max Planck Society and is presentl
lead editor of Physical Review A
and member of the Wissenschaftsrat advising German Science politics.
References
Fellows of the American Physical Society
American Physical Society
21st-century German physicists
Living people
Date of death missing
Year of birth missing (living people)
Max Planck Institute directors
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