Petra Rudolf#
Photo: Sylvia Germes
| Membership Number: | 5606 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.rug.nl/staff/p.rudolf/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4418-1769 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-rudolf-30484213/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020, 02 - present Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Groningen (in addition to Chair of Experimental Solid State Physics)
- 2014, 05 - 2018, 05 Director of the Groningen Graduate School of Science (in addition to Chair of Experimental Solid State Physics)
- 2003, 03 - present Chair of Experimental Solid State Physics, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen (tenure position, since 2014, 04 Hoogleraar 1, a special distinction given only to top 10 % of chairs at each university in the NL)
- 1997, 10 - 2003, 02 Assistant -> Premier Assistant -> Chef de Travaux and Maître de Conférences , Physics Department of the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix de Namur, Belgium
- 1994, 01 - 1997, 09 Senior research fellow of the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium) at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Spectroscopie Electroniques of the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix de Namur, Belgium
- 1991, 10 - 1993, 12 Senior research fellow, TASC-INFM laboratory, Trieste, Italy
- 1990, 10 - 1991, 10 Guest scientist, AT&T Bell Laboratories, working on the Dragon beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven, U.S.A.
- 1987, 09 -1989, 08 Research associate, TASC-INFM laboratory, Trieste, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Materials science, material families
- Surface science, methods
- Complex molecular rotors and switches
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Elected foreign corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna
- 2019 - 2021 President of the European Physical Society
- 2018 Socio Benemerito (Honorary Member) of the Italian Physical Society
- 2016 Elected Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- 2013 Appointed Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau by H.M. Queen Beatrix
- 2010 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2008 DESCARTES Prize 2007 of the European Commission
- 2008 Professeur Invité of the Institut Universitaire de France
- 2006 Lid van verdienste (Member of Merit) of the Dutch Physical Society
- 2001 Fellow of the Institute of Physics, U.K.
- 2000 - 2001 President of the Belgian Physical Society
