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Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber

University of Freiburg
Physical Chemistry

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2014 – September 2015

E-Mail: stefan.weber@physchem.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 31.08.2015

Curriculum Vitae

Stefan Weber studied Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and received his diploma  in 1989. From 1990–1994 he worked as a PhD student at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, where he completed his PhD (Prof. Dr. Gerd Kothe) in 1994. After a postdoctoral training at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago with Professor James R Norris, Jr., Stefan Weber joined the Physics Department of the Free University of Berlin in 1997 to start his independent scientific career. In 2003 he received his habilitation in Experimental Physics.

In 2006 and 2007 he received several offers for full professorships of Magnetic Resonance at the University of East Anglia at Norwich, UK, the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre of the University of Manchester, UK, and Queen Mary University of London, UK. He rejected these these offers in favor of a call from the University of Freiburg to become a full professor of Physical Chemistry in 2008.

Stefan Weber received a Feodor-Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation (Bonn, Germany) for a two-years postdoctoral research stay in the US. In 2010 he was awarded the renowned Morino Lectureship for the promotion of Molecular Spectroscopy of the Morino Foundation in Japan.

Prof. Weber is author or co-autor of more than 80 publications. He has recently edited a book on “Flavins and Flavoproteins”.

His research interests cover magnetic resonance studies (electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)) of blue-light active flavoproteins, metalloproteins, and functional materials. He currently develops novel magnetic-resonance detection schemes for sensitivity enhancement of EPR.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project