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The Whitehead
Memorial Lecture is named in honor of Dr. John Boswell Whitehead, a pioneer
in electrical insulation and dielectrics and a long-time contributor to the
CEIDP. The Conference opens each year with the Lecture and it is the keynote
session of the Conference.
Speaker:
Professor Dr. Friedrich Kremer
Institute for Experimental Physics
University of Leipzig, GERMANY.
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Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kremer, born in 1949 studied physics at the university of Munich (1968 – 1973) and made his diploma in theoretical molecular physics. Afterwards he joined additional courses in biology at the university of Freiburg i.Br. (1974) and finished his Ph.D. in the field of biological cybernetics (1977). As PostDoc he worked at the Max-Planck-Institut for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart. There he developed novel spectroscopic techniques for millimeterwave und far infra-red spectroscopy. During that time he collaborated closely with Prof. Herbert Fröhlich (Whitehead lecturer in 1974) and edited together with him the book Coherent exitations in Biological Systems (H.Fröhlich and F.Kremer, Eds., Springer Verlag 1983). From 1985 – 1993 he was senior researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut for polymer-research in Mainz, where he focussed on polymer physics and materials research and developed automatic measurement systems for Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy covering the entire range from 10-3 Hz to 10+10 Hz. In 1993 he received a call from the university of Leipzig for a chair of experimental physics. From 1998 – 2006 he was director of the Institute for Experimental Physics I, a position which was held from 1928 – 1935 by Peter Debye (Whitehead lecturer in 1956).Together with A. Schönhals he edited (and wrote to a large extent) the book Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (Springer Verlag 2003). The current research interests of Kremer are based on Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy, 2D-IR-Spectroscopy and experiments with Optical Tweezers; they deal with topics like molecular dynamics of glassy materials and polymers under geometric confinement, charge transport and dynamics of Ionic Liquids, structure-property relationships in artificial or natural fibers like spider-silk, single molecule and single colloid experiments using Optical Tweezers. In 2005 he received the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award for his achievements in promoting Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and its applications.– Kremer is married and has two adult sons, in his sparetime he likes to play classical music on the piano. |
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