Roland Wiesendanger

Roland Wiesendanger (born 5 October 1961 in Basel) is a German physicist, specializing in nanoscience. Since 1993 he has been a full professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

He has been awarded three times in a row with the ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council as first scientist in Europe.

Early life and education According to the CV published on his department website, Wiesendanger was born in Basel.

He grew up in Lörrach, Germany, where he attended high-school, the Hans-Thoma-Gymnasium from 1972 to 1981. Wiesendanger himself does not see his "study" as a formal scientific publication, but it "is intended to serve as information for a broad public in Germany".

Memberships and service Since 2000 Wiesendanger is a member of the National Academy Leopoldina, since 2005 member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, and since 2008 member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). In 2012 he became Honorary Professor of the Harbin Institute of Technology (China) and in 2015 he received an Honorary Doctor degree from the Poznań University of Technology (Poland).

He has organized numerous international conferences like the International Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM’97) Conference in Hamburg (1997) or the 1st Otto Stern Symposium in Hamburg (2013). He has been a speaker at more than 500 international conferences, workshops and colloquia worldwide.

Selected awards and honors 1992: Gaede-Prize of the German Vacuum Society 1992: Max Auwärter Prize 1999: Karl Heinz Beckurts-Prize 2000: Member of the National Academy Leopoldina 2003: Philip Morris Research Prize 2005: Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg 2008: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) 2008: 1st ERC Advanced Grant 2010: Nanotechnology Recognition Award of the American Vacuum Society 2012: Fellow of the American Vacuum Society 2012: Honorary Professor of the Harbin Institute of Technology, China 2013: Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2013: 2nd ERC Advanced Grant 2014: Heinrich Rohrer Grand Medal 2015: Honorary Doctor of the Poznań University of Technology, Poland 2015: Hamburg Science Prize 2015: International Fellow of the Surface Science Society of Japan 2016: Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics 2018: 3rd ERC Advanced Grant 2019: Honorary Medal „De Scientia et Humanitate Optime Meritis" of the Czech Academy of Sciences