Ulrich Lemmer (born May 1964) is a

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electrical engineer and

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specializing in

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Education

Ulrich Lemmer received a diploma degree in physics from RWTH Aachen University in 1990 and a Ph.D. from the

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in 1995. From 1995 to 1996, he held a postdoctoral position with the

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at Santa Barbara.

Career

In 2002, Lemmer was appointed as a full

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and director of the Light Technology Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. 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 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 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