Ulrich Lemmer (born May 1964) is a German

electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

and professor specializing in optoelectronics.

Education

Ulrich Lemmer received a diploma degree in physics from

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 ...

in 1990 and a Ph.D. from the University of Marburg in 1995. From 1995 to 1996, he held a postdoctoral position with the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Career

In 2002, Lemmer was appointed as a full Professor and director of the Light Technology Institute,

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

. He is also one of the directors of the Institute for Microstructure Technology. To appreciate his work for the optics society Lemmer was awarded with the

Esther Hoffman Beller Medal The Esther Beller Hoffman Medal is an award given by The Optical Society that recognizes outstanding contributions by individuals around the world to the fields of optical science and engineering education. The award was established in 1993 and pas ...

in 2018. The primary reason for the honor was for developing a vision for an international education program in optics that appreciates its importance as an enabling technology, and for successfully establishing the Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (KSOP).

Publications

Lemmer is an author of over 400 journal publications, 17

patents A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...

or patent applications, and 9 books and book articles.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lemmer, Ulrich German physicists RWTH Aachen University alumni University of Marburg alumni Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 1964 births Living people