Research Areas

Spectra and electronic structure of unsaturated organic compounds in condensed phase:
Aromatic ketones, cyanine dyes, substituted aromatic hydrocarbons, anthraquinones, antenna pigments and reaction centres of photosynthetic bacteria;
Population and deactivation pathways of electronically excited states, especially S₁ and T₁; direction of transition dipole moments, lifetime of excited-states, photo-induced reactions like isomerisation, electron-, proton- and energy-transfer, effect of matrix and substitution

 

Applied techniques

UV/VIS absorption and emission spectroscopy, steady-state and time-resolved (τ ≥ 2 ps); time-resolved Raman and CARS spectroscopy; ESR.

 

Curriculum vitae

1921	Born on December 13 in Landsberg/Lech
1940	Realgymnasium Augsburg. Sonderreifevermerk
1940-43	Military service, demobilisation because of injury
1944	Start with studies of physics at the (then) Technische Hochschule München (THM)
1950	Diploma Thesis with Prof. Dr. W. Meißner (Technische Physik), Graduation
1950	PhD-student with Prof. Dr. G. Scheibe, Physikalische Chemie
1953	Promotion to “Dr. rer. nat.”
	Employment as Scientific Assistent
1958	Habilitation for „Physikalische Chemie”
1961	Hochschuldozent
1966	Appointment as Full Professor of the new chair “Physikalische Chemie II” (THM)
1975	Offer by Univ. Stuttgart (succession Prof. Dr. Th. Förster) declined
1987	Professor emeritus

Award and social engagement

1965	Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein-Preis der Deutschen Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie.
	For many years technical consultant for expert services of the DFG; Intermittent Committee Activities: Bunsengesellschaft, IUPAC, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Deutsches Museum in München