Professor Bernhard Keimer
Heisenbergstr. 1
D-70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49 711 689-1650
e-mail: b.keimer[at]fkf.mpg.de
Brief curriculum vitae
University education
| 1991 | Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Advisor: Prof. R. J. Birgeneau | |
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| 1985 | Pre-diploma in Physics, Technical University of Munich |
Professional positions
| since 1998 | Director, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Member, Scientific Council, Max Planck Society Honorary Professor, University of Stuttgart |
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| since 2020 | Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada |
| 1997 – 1998 | Full Professor of Physics, Princeton University |
| 1996 – 1997 | Associate Professor of Physics, Princeton University |
| 1992 – 1996 | Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University |
| 1991 – 1992 | Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Organization and management
| 2020 – 2023 | Chairman, Scientific Council, Max Planck Society |
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| since 2015 | Chairman, Governing Board, University of Stuttgart |
| 2018 | Chairman, Scientific Evaluation Committee, Emerging Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Program, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation |
| 2016 | Chairman, Decadal Review Committee, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo |
| 2005/06, 2013/14 | Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research |
| since 2014 | Speaker, International Max Planck Research School on Condensed Matter Science |
| since 2012 | Co-Director, Max Planck Society – University of British Columbia – University of Tokyo Center for Quantum Materials |
| 2016 – 2020 | Member, Advisory Board, Center for Quantum Materials, Johns Hopkins University |
| since 2014 | Chairman, Instrumentation Committee, Neutron Source FRM-II, Munich |
| 2014 - 2023 | Member, Executive Board, Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQ ST ), Stuttgart/Ulm |
| 2009 - 2022 | Member, Steering Committee, Transregional Research Center 80, German Research Foundation |
| since 2005 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, FRM-II, Munich |
| 2012 – 2017 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, University of Cologne |
| 2010 – 2016 | Member, Neutron Scattering Advisory Board, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 2008 – 2017 | Member, Fellowship Selection Committee, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| 2009 – 2015 | Member & Chairman, International Prize Committee, German Physical Society |
| 2001 – 2013 | Speaker, International Max Planck Research School on Advanced Materials |
| 2004 – 2008 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Quantum Materials Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research |
| 2003 – 2007 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Institut Laue Langevin |
| 2002 – 2008 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin |
| 1996 – 1998 | Member, Steering Committee, Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Editorial boards
| since 2014 | Editor, Springer Series in Solid State Sciences |
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| 2014 | Editorial Advisor, Nature Milestones in Crystallography |
| 2004 – 2013 | Member, Editorial Board, European Physical Journal B |
| 2000 – 2012 | Member, Editorial Board, Science |
| 2005 – 2009 | Member, Editorial Board, Solid State Communications |
| 2003 – 2005 | Member, Editorial Board, Solid State Communications |
Honors and awards
| 2024 | ERC Advanced Grant "Spectroscopy for Strain-Modulated Terahertz Magnonics" (SpecTera) |
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| 2022 |
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize
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| 2015 | ERC Advanced Grant “Collective modes in 4d-metal compunds and heterostructures” (Com4Com) |
| 2014, 2018 – 2022 | Highly Cited Researcher, Institute for Scientific Information (Clarivate Analystics) |
| 2014 | Foreign Associate, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research |
| 2012 | Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society |
| 2011 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2010 | Elected Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Elected Member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences |
| 2000 | Ehrenfest Lecturer, University of Leiden, Netherlands |
| 1995 | David & Lucile Packard Faculty Fellow |
| 1996 | Alfred P. Sloan Faculty Fellow |
| 1990 | I.B.M. Predoctoral Fellow |
| 1983 | Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Scholarship) |
Key Publications (selection)
Lichen Wang, Huimei Liu, Valentin Zimmermann, Arvind Kumar Yogi, Masahiko Isobe, Matteo Minola, Matthias Hepting, Giniyat Khaliullin, and Bernhard Keimer
Spin-Orbit Excitons in a Correlated Metal: Raman Scattering Study of Sr2RhO4
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116502 (2024)
Article
H. Suzuki, L. Wang, J. Bertinshaw, H. U. R. Strand, S. Käser, M. Krautloher, Z. Yang, N. Wentzell, O. Parcollet, F. Jerzembeck, N. Kikugawa, A. P. Mackenzie, A. Georges, P. Hansmann, H. Gretarsson, B. Keimer
Distinct spin and orbital dynamics in Sr2RuO4
Nature Comm. 14, 7042 (2023)
Article
L. Guasco, Yu. N. Khaydukov, S. Pütter, L. Silvi, M. A. Paulin, T. Keller, B. Keimer
Resonant neutron reflectometry for hydrogen detection
Nature Communications 13, 1486 (2022)
Article
H.-H. Kim, K. Ueda, S. Nakata, P. Wochner, A. Mackenzie, C. Hicks, G. Khaliullin, H. Liu, B. Keimer, M. Minola
Giant stress response of terahertz magnons in a spin-orbit Mott insulator
Nature Communications 13, 6674 (2022))
Article
H. Suzuki, H. Liu, J. Bertinshaw, K. Ueda, H. Kim, S. Laha, D. Weber, Z. Yang, L. Wang, H. Takahashi, K. Fürsich, M. Minola, B. V. Lotsch, B. J. Kim, H. Yavaş, M. Daghofer, J. Chaloupka, G. Khaliullin, H. Gretarsson, B. Keimer
Proximate ferromagnetic state in the Kitaev model material α-RuCl3
Nature Communications 12, 4512 (2021)
Article
H. Takahashi, H. Suzuki, J. Bertinshaw, S. Bette, C. Mühle, J. Nuss, R. Dinnebier, A. Yaresko, G. Khaliullin, H. Gretarsson, T. Takayama, H. Takagi, B. Keimer
Nonmagnetic J=0 State and Spin-Orbit Excitations in K2RuCl6
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 227201 (2021)
Article
H. Suzuki, H. Gretarsson, H. Ishikawa, K. Ueda, Z. Yang, H. Liu, H. Kim, D. Kukusta, A. Yaresko, M. Minola, J. A. Sears, S. Francoual, H.-C. Wille, J. Nuss, H. Takagi, B. J. Kim, G. Khaliullin, H. Yavas, B. Keimer
Spin waves and spin-state transitions in a ruthenate high-temperature antiferromagnet
Nature Materials 18, 563 (2019)
Article
H.-H. Kim, S. M. Souliou, M. E. Barber, E. Lefrançois, M. Minola, M. Tortora, R. Heid, N. Nandi, R. A. Borzi, G. Garbarino, A. Bosak, J. Porras, T. Loew, M. König, P. M. Moll, A. P. Mackenzie, B. Keimer, C. W. Hicks, M. Le Tacon.
Uniaxial pressure control of competing orders in a high-temperature superconductor
Science 362, 1040 (2018)
Article
M. Hepting, R. J. Green, Z. Zhong, M. Bluschke, Y. E. Suyolcu, S. Macke, A. Frano, S. Catalano, M. Gibert, R. Sutarto, F. He, G. Cristiani, G. Logvenov, Y. Wang, P. A. van Aken, P. Hansmann, M. Le Tacon, J.-M. Triscone, G. A. Sawatzky, B. Keimer, E. Benckiser
Complex magnetic order in nickelate slabs
Nature Physics 14, 1097 (2018)
Article
A. Jain, M. Krautloher, J. Porras, G. H. Ryu, D. P. Chen, D. L. Abernathy, J. T. Park, A. Ivanov, J. Chaloupka, G. Khaliullin, B. Keimer, B. J. Kim
Higgs mode and its decay in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet
Nature Physics 13, 633 (2017)
Article
B. Keimer, J. E. Moore
The physics of quantum materials
Nature Physics 13, 1045 (2017)
Article
A. Frano, S. Blanco-Canosa, E. Schierle, Y. Lu, M. Wu, M. Bluschke, M. Minola, G. Christiani, H. U. Habermeier, G. Logvenov, Y. Wang, P. A. van Aken, E. Benckiser, E. Weschke, M. Le Tacon, B. Keimer
Long-range charge-density-wave proximity effect at cuprate/manganate interfaces
Nature Materials 15, 831 (2016)
Article
B. Keimer, S. A. Kivelson, M. R. Norman, S. Uchida, J. Zaanen
From quantum matter to high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxides
Nature 518, 179 (2015)
Article
M. Le Tacon, A. Bosak, S. M. Souliou, G. Dellea, T. Loew, R. Heid, K-P. Bohnen, G. Ghiringhelli, M. Krisch, B. Keimer
Inelastic X-ray scattering in YBa2Cu3O6.6 reveals giant phonon anomalies and elastic central peak due to charge-density-wave formation
Nature Physics 10, 52 (2014)
Article
A. Frano, E. Schierle, M. W. Haverkort, Y. Lu, M. Wu, S. Blanco-Canosa, U. Nwankwo, A. V. Boris, P. Wochner, G. Cristiani, H. U. Habermeier, G. Logvenov, V. Hinkov, E. Benckiser, E. Weschke, B. Keimer
Orbital control of noncollinear magnetic order in nickelate heterostructures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 106804 (2013)
Article
S. P. Bayrakci, D. A. Tennant, Ph. Leininger, T. Keller, M. C. R. Gibson, S. D. Wilson, R. J. Birgeneau, B. Keimer
Lifetimes of Antiferromagnetic Magnons in Two and Three Dimensions: Experiment, Theory, and Numerics
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 017204 (2013)
Article
G. Ghiringhelli, M. Le Tacon, M. Minola, S. Blanco-Canosa, C. Mazzoli, N.B. Brookes, G. M. De Luca, A. Frano, D. G. Hawthorn, F. He, T. Loew, M. Moretti Sala, D. C. Peets, M. Salluzzo, E. Schierle, R. Sutarto, G. A. Sawatzky, E. Weschke, B. Keimer, L. Braicovich
Long-Range Incommensurate Charge Fluctuations in (Y,Nd)Ba2Cu3O6+x
Science 337, 821 (2012)
Article
E. Benckiser, M. W. Haverkort, S. Brück, E. Goering, S. Macke, A. Frañó, X. Yang, O. K. Andersen, G. Cristiani, H. U. Habermeier, A. V. Boris, I. Zegkinoglou, P. Wochner, H. J. Kim, V. Hinkov, B. Keimer
Orbital reflectometry of oxide heterostructures
Nature Materials 10, 189 (2011)
Article
M. Le Tacon, G. Ghiringhelli, J. Chaloupka, M. Moretti Sala, V. Hinkov, M. W. Haverkort, M. Minola, M. Bakr, K. J. Zhou, S. Blanco-Canosa, C. Monney, Y. T. Song, G. L. Sun, C. T. Lin, G. M. De Luca, M. Salluzzo, G. Khaliullin. T. Schmitt, L. Braicovich, B. Keimer.
Intense paramagnon excitations in a large family of high-temperature superconductors
Nature Physics 7, 725 (2011)
Article
A. V. Boris, Y. Matiks, E. Benckiser, A. Frañó, P. Popovich, V. Hinkov, P. Wochner, M. Castro-Colin, E. Detemple, V. K. Malik, C. Bernhard, T. Prokscha, A. Suter, Z. Salman, E. Morenzoni, G. Cristiani, H.-U. Habermeier, B. Keimer
Dimensionality control of electronic phase transitions in nickel-oxide superlattices
Science 332, 937 (2011)
Article
N. Driza, S. Blanco-Canosa, M. Bakr, S. Soltan, M. Khalid, L. Mustafa, K. Kawashima, G. Christiani, H.-U. Habermeier, G. Khaliullin, C. Ulrich, M. Le Tacon, B. Keimer
Long-range transfer of electron-phonon coupling in oxide superlattices
Nature Materials 11, 675 (2012)
Article
T. Dahm, V. Hinkov, S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, V. B. Zabolotnyy, J. Fink, B. Büchner, D. J. Scalapino, W. Hanke, B. Keimer
Strength of the spin-fluctuation-mediated pairing interaction in a high-temperature superconductor
Nature Physics 5, 217 (2009)
Article
V. Hinkov, D. Haug, B. Fauqué, P. Bourges, Y. Sidis, A. Ivanov, C. Bernhard, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer
Electronic Liquid Crystal State in the High-Temperature Superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.45
Science 319, 597 (2008)
Article
J. Chakhalian, J. W. Freeland, H.-U. Habermeier, G. Cristiani, G. Khaliullin, M. van Veenendaal, B. Keimer
Orbital reconstruction and covalent bonding at an oxide interface
Science 318, 1114 (2007)
Article