Inhaber

Prof. Dr. Jochen Geck

© J. Geck

Professor für Physik der Quantenmaterialien

Institut fuer Festkoerper- und Materialphysik
Technische Universitaet Dresden
01062 Dresden
Germany

Visitor address:
Haeckelstr. 3 - REC/C114 
01069 Dresden, Germany

Employment

• Since April 2019: Managing Director of the IFMP.
• Since September 2016: Full Professor (W3) for the Physics of Quantum Materials at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
• 2015-2016: Full Professor (equivalent W3) for Condensed Matter Physics at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
• 2014-2015: Interim Chair for Structural Physics of Condensed Matter, Dresden Technical University, Germany
• Since 2014: IFF group leader, Synchrotron Studies of Quantum matter, IFW Dresden, Germany
• 2008-2013: Emmy Noether research group leader at the IFW Dresden, Germany
• 2006-2008: Postdoctoral DFG-fellow with Prof. G.A. Sawatzky, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• 2004-2005: Postdoc at the IFW Dresden, Germany
• 2001-2003: Research assistant, RWTH Aachen, Germany
• 1999-2001: Research assistant, University of Cologne, Germany
• 1996-1998: Tutor at the Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany

Education

• 2000-2003: Ph.D. in Physics, RWTH Aachen, Germany
• 1999: Diploma in Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
• 1993-1999: Study of physics and mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany

Awards and honors

• Founding member of the cluster of excellence ct.qmat
• IFF Research Prize
• DFG Emmy Noether research grant (IFW Dresden, Germany)  
• DFG postdoctoral research fellow (Vancouver, Canada)
• Borchers Plaquette (Award of the RWTH Aachen for the Ph.D. thesis)

Third Party Funding

• Chemisty of synthetic two-dimensional materials. Collaborative Research Center 1415. PI since 2020
• Cluster of Excellence Complexity and Topology in Quantum Materials. PI since 2019.
• Correlated Magnetism: From Frustration to Topology. Collaborative Research Center 1143. PI since 2015

Completed Projects:

• Itineranter Magnetismus und Supraleitung in intermetallischen Verbindungen. Graduiertenkolleg 1621 of the German Research Foundation (PI, 2011-2020).
• Coupled spin, charge, and orbital dynamics of low-dimensional cuprates. Joined project of the PSI in Villigen and the IFW Dresden within the DACH-agreement between Switzerland and Germany. Commonly funded by the Swiss National Fund and the German Research Foundation (PI and main applicant of the German side, 2012-2017).
• Development and optimization of cathode materials for solid state fuel cells by means of synchrotron radiation. Bilateral cooperation in Education and Science, International bureau of the BMBF (PI and main applicant of the German side, ended)
• Confined correlated electrons explored by novel synchrotron experiments. Emmy Noether grant of the German Research Foundation (PI, 2008-2015)
• Structure, kinetics and ordering in model materials for lithium-ion batteries. Priority Program 1473 of the German Research Foundation (PI, 2010-2013)
• Self-organized electronic superlattices in transition metal oxides studied by means of novel synchrotron radiation techniques. Research fellowship of the German Research Foundation (PI, 2006-2008).
• Spin and charge in electrochemically doped transition metal oxides. French-German Network (PI, 2004-2007).