Kurt Kremer#
| Membership Number: | 4782 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/polymer_theory |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since September 1st, 1995 Director and scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
- 1988 - 1995 Senior Scientific Staff, Solid State Laboratory (IFF) at the German Nation Research Center FZ Juelich, Germany
- 1984 - 1988 Assistant professor (C1), Theoretical Physics, University of Mainz, Mainz. Germany
- 1984 - 1985 PostDoc, Exxon Research and Engineering, Annandale NJ, USA
- Extended interim positions:
- 2012 Coordinator KITP-UCSB program "Physical Principles of Multiscale Modeling for Soft Matter" (4 months)
- 2011 Visiting Professor, Soft Matter Physics Group, New York University, NY (3 months)
- 1995 Materials Research, Bayer AG, Leverkusen (3 months)
- 1991 G. T. Piercy Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Univ. Minnesota, USA (3months)
Fields of Scholarship
- Non-Equilibrium aspects of materials development
- Computational Physics with focus on method development
- Statistical Physics of Soft matter
- Multiscale Modeling of Materials, linking microscopic and macroscopic properties
- Structure Process Property Relations of materials, i.e. the relevance of sample history on morphology and function
- Theoretical Soft Matter Physics with focus on macromolecular materials
Honours and Awards
- 2016 J. D. Ferry Lecture, University of Wisconsin
- 2016 Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences, EURASC (Brussels, Belgium)
- 2013 ERC-Advanced Grant MOLPROCOMP (beginning 03/2014)
- 2012 Elected member German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, Germany)
- 2012 KITP (UC Santa Barbara) Distinguished Scholar (in connection with coordination of a 3 months program on Multiscale Modeling in Soft Matter Science at KITP)
- 2011 American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize
- 2011 Honorary Professor of Physics, University of Heidelberg
- 2006 Fellow American Physical Society
- 2006 Nakamura Lecturer, UC Santa Barbara
- 1999 Whitby Lecturer, Akron University
- 1992 Walter Schottky Prize of the German Physical Society
- 1991 George T. Piercy Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota
