Lebenslauf
Verleihung des Zukunftspreises 2011, v.l.n.r.: Annette Schavan (Bundesbildungsministerin), Prof. Karl Leo (Preisträger), Dr. Martin Pfeiffer (Preisträger), Dr. Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth (Preisträger), Christian Wulff (Bundespräsident)
1. General Information
| Title, first name, surname | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. techn. h.c. Karl Leo |
| Date/place of birth | 10.07.1960 / Freiburg i. Brsg. |
| Actual position or status | Professor W3 |
| Address |
Technische Universität Dresden |
| Phone | + 49 351 463 34389 |
| Fax | + 49 351 463 37065 |
| leo@iapp.de | |
| Website |
www.karl-leo.de |
2. Academic and Scientific Education with Degrees
| 1985 | Dipl.-Phys, U Freiburg, supervisor: Adolf Goetzberger |
| 1988 | Dr. rer. nat. in physics, U Stuttgart, supervisor: Hans Queisser |
| 1993 | PD in physics, RWTH Aachen, supervisor: Heinrich Kurz |
3. Professional Career after Graduation
| 10/2013-9/2014 | Visiting Professor - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi-Arabia |
| 2008-2013 | Director - Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems, since 2012 Fraunhofer COMEDD |
| 2001-2008 | Department Head, Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems |
| since 1993 | Full Professor of Optoelectronics - TU Dresden |
| 1991-1993 | Assistant Professor - RWTH Aachen |
| 1989-1991 | Postdoc - AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA |
| 1986-1988 | Research Associate - Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart |
4. Other Functions
| since 2019 | Board Member of the Excellence Network “Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter (ct.qmat)” |
| 2015-2019 | Board Member of the Excellence Network “Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed)” |
| 2009-2011 | Director of the Network “Organic Electronics Saxony” www.oes-net.de |
| 2009-2012 | Chair and Organizer, Plastic Electronics Conference, Dresden |
| 2009 | Visiting Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan |
| 2008-2014 | Member of the Board of Heliatek GmbH, Dresden |
| Since 2008 | Member of the Board of sim4tec GmbH, Dresden |
| 2008-2015 | Coordinator of DFG priority programme “Organic Photovoltaics” SPP1355 |
| 2008 | Chair and Organizer, International Conference on Organic Electroluminescence, Dresden |
| 2003-2009 | Member and (2003-2006) Chair of Supervisory Board of Novaled AG, Dresden |
| Since1999 | Co-founder of 8 spin-off companies, >300 employees, >140M€ raised |
5. Honors and Awards
| 2021 | Lifetime Award of the European Patent Office |
| 2021 | Jan Rajchman Prize of the SID |
| 2021 | Blaise-Pascal medal for Physics of the European Academy of Sciences |
| 2019 | futureSAX Transfer Preis |
| 2018 | Election into the acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften |
| 2015-2018 | ISI “Highly Cited” Scientist in Materials Sciences |
| 2017 | Wilhelm-Ostwald-Medaille of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences |
| 2016 | Technology Transfer Prize of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) |
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2015 |
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) |
| 2015 | Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) |
| 2014 | Election into the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) |
| 2014 | Hector-Prize and Fellow, Hector Foundation |
| 2013 | Dr. techn. h.c., University of Southern Denmark |
| 2012 | Rudolf-Jaeckel-Preis of the German Society for Vacuum |
| 2011 | Future Prize of the German President |
| 2010 | ERC Advanced Grant |
| 2006 | Manfred-von-Ardenne-Preis, Europäische Fördergemeinschaft Dünne Schichten |
| 2003 | Election into the Leopoldina, National Academy of Sciences |
| 2002 | Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| 2002 | Academy Prize of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science |
| 1992 | Bennigsen-Förder award of the state Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| 1988 | Otto-Hahn-Medaille of the Max-Planck-Society |
7. Publications
Performance factors
- H-factor: 115 (Google Scholar), 97 (Web of Science); m-factor: 3.3 (Google)
- Citations: >54,000 (Google Scholar), > 37,000 (Web of Science)
- > 700 refereed publications
Ten recent selected publications
- Reservoir computing with biocompatible organic electrochemical networks for brain-
inspired biosignal classification, M. Cucchi, C. Gruener, L. Petrauskas, P. Steiner, H.
Tseng, A. Fischer, B. Penkovsky, C. Matthus, P. Birkholz, H. Kleemann, K. Leo,
Science Advances 7, eabh0693 (2021) - Efficient and low-voltage vertical organic permeable base light-emitting transistors,
Z. Wu, Y. Liu, E. Guo, G. Darbandy, S.-J. Wang, R. Hübner, A. Kloes, H. Kleemann,
K. Leo, Nature Materials 2021, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-00937-0 - Molecular parameters responsible for thermally activated transport in doped organic
semiconductors, M. Schwarze, D. Gaul, R. Scholz, F. Bussolotti, A. Hofacker, S.
Schellhammer, B. Nell, B.D. Naab, Z. Bao, D. Spoltore, K. Vandewal, J. Widmer, S.
Kera, N. Ueno, F. Ortmann, K. Leo, Nature Materials 18, 242 (2019) - Elementary steps in electrical doping of organic semiconductors, M.L. Tietze, J. Benduhn, P. Pahner, B. Nell, M. Schwarze, M. Krammer, K. Zojer, K. Vandewal, andK. Leo, Nature Comm. 9, 1182 (2018)
- Organic narrowband near-infrared photodetectors based on intermolecular charge-transfer absorption, B. Siegmund, A. Mischok, J. Benduhn, O. Zeika, S. Ullbrich, F. Nehm, M. Böhm, D. Spoltore, H. Fröb, C. Körner, K. Leo and K. Vandewal, Nature Comm. 8, 15421 (2017)
- Band structure engineering in organic semiconductors, M. Schwarze, W. Tress, B.Beyer, F. Gao, R. Scholz, C. Poelking, K. Ortstein, A.A. Guenther, D. Kasemann, D. Andrienko, K. Leo, Science 352, 1446 (2016)
- Characterization of tandem organic solar cells, R. Timmreck, T. Meyer, J. Gilot,H. Seifert, T. Mueller, A. Furlan, M.M. Wienk, D. Wynands, J. Hohl-Ebinger, W. Warta, R.A.J. Janssen, M. Riede, K. Leo, Nature Photonics 9, 478 (2015).
- Doped Organic Transistors: Inversion and Depletion Regime, B. Lüssem, M.L. Tietze, H. Kleemann, C. Hoßbach, J.W. Bartha, A. Zakhidov, K. Leo, Nature Comm. 4, 2775 (2013).
- Correlation of π-Conjugated Oligomer Structure with Film Morphology and Organic Solar Cell Performance, R. Fitzner, E. Mena-Osteritz, A. Mishra, G. Schulz, E. Reinold, M. Weil, C. Körner, H. Ziehlke, C. Elschner, K. Leo, M. Riede, M. Pfeiffer, C. Uhrich, P. Bäuerle, J. Am.Chem.Soc. 134, 11064 (2012).
- White organic light-emitting diodes with fluorescent tube efficiency, S. Reineke, F. Lindner, N. Seidler, G. Schwartz, K. Walzer, B. Lüssem, K. Leo, Nature 459, 234 (2009).
Patents
(co-) inventor of approx. 60 patent families, major part of them licensed or sold to companies