Kurt Kremer

Kurt Kremer (born 17 June 1956 in Kapellensüng (Lindlar)) is a German physicist.

Career Kremer studied physics from 1974 to 1980 at the University of Cologne, where he also did his PhD in 1983 under supervision of Kurt Binder. co-authored with Gary S. Grest, introduces a polymer model later to be knows as the Kremer-Grest Model.

Kremer is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2012), a fellow of the American Physical Society (2006) and Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota (1991). He received the Walter Schottky Prize of the German Physical Society (1992), the American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize (2011) and an ERC-Advanced Grant (2014).