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Dr Eicke Weber |
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Prof Dr Eicke Weber is the Director of Fraunhofer
Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and also Chair of Applied
Physics, Solar
Energy, at the University of Freiburg. In 2006, he returned to Germany
after 23 years of research in the USA, most recently as a professor
at the University of California in Berkeley. Prof. Weber’s
scientific career began with the study of physics at the University
of Cologne, where he obtained his doctorate in 1976. After conducting
postdoctoral research at the State University of New York in Albany,
USA and at Lund University in Sweden, he returned to Cologne where
he qualified as a professor in 1983. In the USA, Weber has earned
an international reputation as a materials researcher. He has been
decorated with numerous awards and fellowships. In 2003, he founded
the German Scholars Organization to foster contacts between German
scientists abroad and the “old country” and thus facilitate
the scientists’ return to Germany.
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