Eberhard Umbach (born 1948 in

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) is a German physicist. He studied physics at the

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and received his doctorate in 1980 with honors. After conducting research in the United States he habilitated also at the TU Munich in 1986. Umbach was professor at the

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from 1987 to 1993 and professor at the University of Würzburg from 1993 to 2007. From 2006-2008 he was president of the

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. From May 2007 until September 2009 he was chairman of the Karlsruhe Research Center. From 1 October 2009 Eberhard Umbach served jointly with

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as one of the two presidents of the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

, until becoming sole president in 2012 after Hippler left to become president of the German Rectors' Conference.Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
"Horst Hippler moves from Karlsruhe to Bonn"
6 September 2012. Retrieved on 11 May 2013.

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