curriculum vitae


Born: 14.06.1942, Wakefield, England
1961 - 68: University of Manchester
1964B. Sc. (First Class Honours)
1965 Diploma for Advanced Study in Science (with Distinction)
1967Assistant Lecturer in Theoretical Physics
1968PhD
1968 - 70: U.S.A.
1968 - 69Research Fellow, University of Chicago
1969 - 70Research Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
1970 - 79: Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England
1970Senior Scientific Officer
1975Principal Scientific Officer
1979Senior Principal Scientific Officer
1979 - present: University of Freiburg
1979Chair of Theoretical Physics, University of Freiburg, West Germany
1982 and 1992Dekan (Dean) of the Faculty of Physics, University of Freiburg
1982Appointed Head of the Division of Theoretical Physics and Computational
Science, Daresbury Laboratory, England (appointment not taken up)
Scholarships, Prizes, etc.
1961John Buckley Open Entrance Scholarship to the University of Manchester,
United Steel University Scholarship, Brotherton Scholarship, U. K. State
Scholarship
1962Heginbotham Exhibition, Honour School of Physics, University of Manchester
1964Platt Prize for Physics, Honours School of Physics, University of Manchester
1986Rosenthal Memorial Lecturer, Yale and Columbia Universities
1989Fellow, JILA, Boulder, USA
1992Max-Planck Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1996Fellow of the American Physical Society
1997Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
1999Fellow of the Institute of Physics, U. K
Other Professional Appointments
1975Visiting Reader, University of Sussex.
1975 - 88Organising Committee - International Seminar on Ion-Atom Collisions (ISIAC)
1977 - 81International Committee, International Conference on the Physics of
Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC)
1978 - 84Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Physics B
1979 - 87Consultant, Harwell Laboratory, England
1982, 1984Co-director, Nato Advanced Study Institutes "Fundamental Processes in Atomic
Collisions"
1983Review Committee, Hahn-Meitner-Institute, Berlin
1983 - 1995Member of Review Committee for Sonderforschungsbereiche at the
Universities of Kaiserslautern, Bielefeld, Münster, Berlin and Munich
1984 - 87Editorial Advisory Board, The Physical Review A
1987Director, Nato Advanced Study Institute "Fundamental Processes in Atomic
Dynamics"
1987 - 1994Co-ordinator of the DFG Schwerpunktprogramm "Atomic and Molecular
Theory"
1992 - presentInternational Advisory Board, Journal of Physics B
1993 - 1996Co-Editor; Europhysics Letters
1995 - 1997Member of Review Committee, DFG Schwerpunktprogramm
"Time-dependent methods and phenomena in physics and chemistry"
1995 - 1996Member of the Executive Committee, ICPEAC
1995 - 1999Chairman of the Advisory Board, Max-Planck Institute for Complex Systems,
Dresden
1995 - 1999Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Senate Member with special responsibility
for Sonderforschungsbereiche