Hidenori Takagi ist neuer Alexander von Humboldt-Professor

Professor Hidenori Takagi

The solid-state physicist, Hidenori Takagi from Japan, nominated by the University of Stuttgart together with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, is one of a total of four foreign researchers who were chosen as new Alexander von Humboldt Professors. The highest endowed research prize in Germany with up to five million Euros is being awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and financed by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Worldwide leading researchers from all disciplines working abroad who are to perform long-term cutting edge research at German universities are being distinguished. The prize money is intended for financing the first five years in Germany. With this the prize is giving the universities the opportunity to offer top international researchers framework conditions and a long-term perspective for working in Germany as well as improving their profile. The prizes will be awarded in Berlin in 2014.

Excellent solid-state researchers worldwide
Professor Hidenori Takagi, born in 1961, is one of the excellent researchers worldwide, as well as being a researcher with an extensive international network for modern solid-state research. His contributions in the field of high temperature superconductivity, materials with strong electronic correlations and magnetic materials are considered to be just as innovative and excellent as are his skills in the synthesis of new types of compounds. At the University of Stuttgart as well as at the Stuttgart Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, his task will be to strengthen the strategic focus of solid-state research and promote a new orientation from "classic" semi-conductor and metal research up to complex materials. The Humboldt professorship will emphasise and intensify the close cooperation between the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. What this means for the research location of Stuttgart is that the chance is being offered to further extend existing interdisciplinary research activities between physics, chemistry, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.

Hidenori Takagi has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart since 1st April 2013. His awards include, among others, the IBM Science Prize and the Prize for Science and Technology by the Japanese Ministry of Education. In addition, he was appointed Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010. Hidenori Takagi is the author of almost 500 publications, which have evoked a very great response in the research field of solid-state chemistry and physics. He is the co-publisher of several international trade journals as well as a member on several international committees, including the International Advisory Committee at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Further information available at: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/ahp-2014-en.html 

Contact:
Dr. Hans-Herwig Geyer, University of Stuttgart, University Communication,
Tel. 0711/685-8255, Email: hans-herwig.geyer [at] hkom.uni-stuttgart.de