Eberhard Umbach (born 1948 in

Bad Lauterberg Bad Lauterberg is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the southern Harz, approx. 15 km southwest of Braunlage, and 20 km southeast of Osterode am Harz. Bad Lauterberg is known ''inter alia ...

) is a German

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

Career

He studied physics at the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; ) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Established in 1868 by King Ludwig II ...

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

University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart () is a research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany with programs in civil, mechanical, ind ...

from 1987 to 1993 and professor at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. Founded in 1402, it is one of the ol ...

from 1993 to 2007. From 2006-2008 he was president of the

German Physical Society The German Physical Society (German: , DPG) is the oldest organisation of physicists. As of 2022, the DPG's worldwide membership is cited as 52,220, making it one of the largest national physics societies in the world. The DPG's membership peaked ...

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

Horst Hippler Horst may refer to: Science * Horst (geology), a raised fault block bounded by normal faults or graben People * Horst (given name) * Horst (surname) * ter Horst, Dutch surname * van der Horst, Dutch surname Places Settlements Germany * Hors ...

as one of the two presidents of the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe (), founde ...

, until becoming sole president in 2012 after Hippler left to become president of the

German Rectors' Conference The German Rectors' Conference ( German: ''Hochschulrektorenkonferenz'' – HRK) is the voluntary association of state and state-recognised universities and other higher education institutions in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Repu ...

.Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
"Horst Hippler moves from Karlsruhe to Bonn"
6 September 2012. Retrieved on 11 May 2013.

References

External links

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