Eberhard Umbach (born 1948 in Bad Lauterberg) is a German

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

. He studied physics at the Munich Technical University and received his doctorate in 1980 with honors. After conducting research in the United States he habilitated also at the TU Munich in 1986. Umbach was professor at the University of Stuttgart from 1987 to 1993 and professor at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

from 1993 to 2007. From 2006-2008 he was president of the German Physical Society. From May 2007 until September 2009 he was chairman of the Karlsruhe Research Center. From 1 October 2009 Eberhard Umbach served jointly with Horst Hippler as one of the two presidents of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, until becoming sole president in 2012 after Hippler left to become president of the

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.Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
"Horst Hippler moves from Karlsruhe to Bonn"
6 September 2012. Retrieved on 11 May 2013.

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