Götz Uhrig

Götz Silvester Uhrig is a German theoretical physicist in Condensed Matter Theory. in the Department of Physics of TU Dortmund University having published over 200 scientific articles.

Education Uhrig was born in Karlsruhe and began his academic journey in Physics and Mathematics at the TU Darmstadt, where he completed his Vordiplomas between 1984 and 1986. He then pursued advanced studies in France, earning a Licence en Magistère de Physique at the Université Paris 7 (now Université Paris-Diderot) from 1986 to 1987. Returning to Germany, Uhrig completed his Diploma in Physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg between 1987 and 1990. Uhrig earned his doctorate in April 1994 at RWTH Aachen University, under the supervision of Prof. Dieter Vollhardt.

Professional career After completing his PhD, Uhrig began his postdoctoral research career as a researcher in the group of Prof. Erwin Müller-Hartmann at the University of Cologne from January 1994 to September 1995. He continued his postdoctoral research with Prof. Heinz Schulz at the Université Paris-Sud (now part of Université Paris-Saclay) from October 1995 to December 1996. Returning to Germany in 1997, Uhrig resumed his work at the University of Cologne. Since 2006, he is a Full Professor at TU Dortmund University. Uhrig served as a member of the Editorial Board of the European Physical Journal B and as one of the Curators of the Physik-Journal of the DPG, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. He served in the Senate of TU Dortmund University. Since 2024, he is elected Fachkollegiat of the DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Research Götz Uhrig studies strongly correlated systems, in particular quantum magnets. Among others, he developed systematic basis transformations as theoretical tool to elucidate the under-lying physical properties. In recent years, non-equilibrium issues and topological properties are taken into focus. He contributed to quantum error mitigation by discovering particular dynamic decoupling schemes.

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