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Prof. Dr. Günter Reiter

University of Freiburg
Physics

Internal Senior Fellow (FRIAS School of Soft Matter Research)
2010 – 2014

E-Mail: guenter.reiter@physik.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 31.08.2014

Curriculum Vitae

Günter Reiter is professor for experimental polymer physics at the physics institute of the University of Freiburg. He is a member of the board of directors of the Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum and speaker of the International Research Training Group on Soft Matter Science, a collaboration between Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Basel and Freiburg. He is chairman of the Macromolecular Physics Section of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society. He has previously been Editor-in-Chief of The European Physical Journal E Soft Matter and is now Editor for The European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJ ST) and Book Series Editor (with David Andelman) for the Series in Soft Condensed Matter published by World Scientific, Singapore.

He studied physics in Graz/Austria, where he received his PhD in 1987. After five years at the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz/Germany and two years at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign/USA, he stayed 14 years in Mulhouse/France as a researcher at the CNRS. In 2008 he accepted his current position in Freiburg.

His research interests are covering questions on the behavior and properties of polymers at interfaces, phase transitions and growth processes in complex systems, and molecular self-assembly and the formation of functional structures on surfaces.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project