Curriculum Vitae
Klaus Kern is Director and Scientific
Member at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in
Stuttgart, Germany and Professor of Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He also is Honorary Professor at the University of
Konstanz, Germany. His present research interests are in nanoscale
science, quantum technology and in microscopy at the atomic limits of space and time. He holds a chemistry degree and PhD from the
University of Bonn and a honorary doctors degree from the University of
Aalborg. After his doctoral studies he was staff scientist at the
Research Center Jülich and visiting scientist at Bell Laboratories,
Murray Hill before joining the Faculty of EPFL in 1991 and the
Max-Planck-Society in 1998. Professor Kern has authored and coauthored more than 600 scientific publications, which have received nearly 60’000
citations. He has served frequently on advisory committees to
universities, professional societies and institutions and has received
numerous scientific awards and honors, including the 2008
Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize.