Andrea Cavalleri#
| Membership Number: | 4444 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://qcmd.mpsd.mpg.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present Founding Director - Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter - Hamburg (Germany)
- 2013 - 2016 Managing Director - Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter - Hamburg (Germany)
- 2008 - 2013 Director - Max Planck Department for Structural Dynamics - University of Hamburg (Germany)
- 2008 - present Professor of Physics - W3 - University of Hamburg (Germany)
- 2006 - present Professor of Physics - University of Oxford (UK)
- 2005 - 2006 Associate Professor of Physics - University of Oxford (UK)
- 2001 - 2005 Scientist - Materials Sciences Division - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S.A.)
- 1998 - 2001 Postdoc - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - University of California, San Diego, (U.S.A.)
- 1996 - 1998 Research Student - Universität Essen (Germany)
- 1992 - 1996 Research Student -Dipartimento di Elettronica - Universita’ di Pavia (Italy)
Fields of Scholarship
- Magnetism
- Non-equilibrium phenomena
- Complex correlated materials
- Ultrafast science
- Nonlinear optics
- Nonlinear phononics
- Experimental condensed matter physics
- Superconductivity
- X-ray science
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Fellow - American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2015 Max Born Medal and Prize - UK Institute of Physics & German Physical Society
- 2015 Dannie Heinemann Prize – Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen
- 2015 Fellow - Institute of Physics (UK)
- 2013 ERC Synergy Grant
- 2012 Ångström Lecturer - Uppsala University
- 2011 Fellow - American Physical Society
- 2004 European Young Investigator Award
- 2004 David Shirley Award for outstanding scientific achievement - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
